Tag: Ordelaffi

• 142 – Pope-ing out of the Middle ages (1447 – 1492)

  We accompany the last set of popes of the middle ages, from Nicholas V to Innocent VIII as they take us along with the usual intrigue in the Italian peninsula with Naples,Florence, Milan and Venice as well as many others while the city of Rome takes the shape we would start to recognise today heading…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Ancona, Bentivoglio, Bologna, Borgia, Callixtus III, Eugene IV, Ferrara, Florence, Lorenzo De Medici, Malatesta, Michalanghelo, Ordelaffi, Perugino, Podcast, Rimini, Rome, Sistene chapel, Sixtus IV, St. Peter, Umbria

• 132 – The end of the Visconti: how to lose a duchy (1410 – 1447)

  Filippo Maria Visconti, now sole Duke of Milan, has a bit of time to take a breather, before the chaos of the wars of Lombardy vs Venice and Florence, with special guest stars

  A History of Italy

  February 1, 2022

  Alberico da Barbiano, Alphonse of Spain, Bianca Maria Visconti, Braccio da Montone, Carlo Malatesta, Cosimo de Medici, Eugene IV, Florence, Forlì, Francesco Sforza, L'Aquila, Manfredi, Milan, Muzio Attendolo Sforza, Naples, Ordelaffi, Pandolfo Malatesta, Podcast, Venice

• 125 – War and rebellion in Tuscany (1348 to 1382)

  After seeing the gruesome spectacle of the plague in Florence through the eyes of Giovani bocaccio we follow the rising tension in the city and all over Tuscany that would eventually erupt in the rebellion known as the “Revolt of the Ciompi”. In the meantime, Florence also finds time to participate in the war of…

  A History of Italy

  November 16, 2021

  Accaioli, Albizzi, Antipope Clement VII, Betto Biffoli, Capponi, Cesena, Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gregory XI, Guido D'Asciano, John Hawkwood, Katherine of Siena, Malatesta, Michele di Lando, Ordelaffi, Perugia, Pitti, Podcast, Revolt of the Ciompi, Rivolta del Bruco, Siena, Sifnoria, Tumulto dei Ciompi, Urban VI