Tag: Mantua

• 108 – Italians against stairs

  Mastino II Della Scala gets too big for his own good and Venice, Florence and Milan move in to bring him down a rung or two

  A History of Italy

  January 19, 2021

  Azzone Visconti, Brescia, Charles of Bohemia, Doge, Florence, Francesco Dandalo, Giovanni Visconti, Gradenigo, Lucca, Luchino Visconti, Mantua, Mastino II Della Scala, Milan, Padua, Parma, Pietro De Rossi, Podcast, Rome, Treviso, Venice

• 107 – An unexpected king

  While everyone (the Pope, the king of France, Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence etc.) is manoeuvring in northern Italy along comes an unexpected king, John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia. Will he be able to unite the northern cities?

  A History of Italy

  January 12, 2021

  Azzone Visconti, Brescia, Cangrande Della Scala, Della Scala, Enrico Dandolo, Florence, Gonzaga, john of Luxenburg, John ofBohemia, Lucca, Luigi Gonzaga, Luis IV, Mantua, Mastino II Della Scala, Philipp the Fair, Podcast, Venice, Verona, Visconti

• 106 – An imperial tour of Italy (1327-1329)

  We follow the descent into Italy of Holy Roman Emperor Luis IV to visit with the Visconti in Milan, the Dalla Scala in Verona, the Este of Ferrara, the Castracani in Lucca and the Gonzaga in Mantua. At the same time we see the struggle between emperor and pope and get a reminder fo the…

  A History of Italy

  January 5, 2021

  Azzone Visconti, Cangrande Della Scala, Castruccio Castracani, Colonna, Edward I, Ferrara, Lucca, Luigi Gonzaga, Luis IV, Mantua, Milan, Modena, Obizzo D'Este, Pisa, Podcast, Pope John XXII, Rome, Treviso, Venice, Verona

• 093 – A change of scenery for the papacy and an anachronistic emperor

  The papacy, under Clement V heads off for its long exile to Avignone and then Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII tries to move back the clock on the Italian scene.

  A History of Italy

  July 18, 2020

  Anangni, Avignone, Benedict XI, Brescia, Clement V, Dante Alighieri, Della Scala, Della Torre, Florence, France, Francesco Petrarca, Gonzaga, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Iron Crown, Malatesta, Mantua, Milan, Philipp IV, Podcast, Polenta, Rome, Visconti

• Matilda of Tuscany, the iron countess of Canossa

  The life and times of the most powerful woman in Italy between the 11th and 12th century who could have been Queen.

  A History of Italy

  March 5, 2019

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  Beatrice of Lorain, Boniface of Canossa, Carpineti, Cremona, Florence, Gregory VII, Henry IV, Henry V, Lodi, Lucca, Mantua, Marola, Matilda of Canossa, Milan, Reggio Emilia, Rome, Sorbara, Urban II, Victor III