Tag: Rome

• Interview: Artemisia Gentileschi with Lori from “Her Half of History”

  We were lucky enough for Lori from the Her Half of History podcast to come and talk about the 17th century female Roman artist Artemisia Gentileschi. She overcame great trauma and injustice at a young age to become one of the most important and successful painters of her time and the centuries that followed. Check out Lorie’s site:

  A History of Italy

  May 28, 2023

  Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque, Cosimo, Florence, Naples, Orazio Gentileschi, Podcast, Rome, Venice

• 147 – The conpiracy of the crazies (1476 – 1478)

  Things heat up as the animosity between the Medici and pope Sixtus IV leads to one of the most infamous conspiracies in history: the Pazzi conspiracy, set up to kill Giuliano and Lorenzo De Medici and overthrow the Signoria, the government of Florence.

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Antonio Maffei da Volterra, Bernardo Bandini, Federico da Montefeltro, Florence, Francesco Pazzi, Giovan Battista di Montesecco, Girolamo Riario, Giuliano De Medici, Medici, Montesecco, Pazzi conspiracy, Podcast, Raffaele Ruario, Rome, Signoria, Sixtus IV, Stefano Bagnone

• 145 – Fleeting youth, Lorenzo de Medici’s early years (1468 – 1471)

  Before the responsibility of government is handed over to him at his father’s death and before getting married the statesman, banker, lover of philosophy and poet Lorenzo De Medici takes a few last opportunities at carefree youth with a tournament and party that would never be forgot.

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Diotisalvi, Donati, Florence, Giuliano De Medici, Lorenzo De Medici, Lucrezia Donati, Piero De, Rome, Sixtus IV

• 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

• 141 – The popes are back in business (1417 – 1447)

  After the healing of the western schism in 1417, new pope Martin V must get his papal states under control which means dealing with a whole load of issue such as brigands, mercenary captains, pushy neighbours, unruly lords and a lack of cash. We then see how his successor, Eugene IV was able to muck…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Basel, Bentivoglio, Bologna, Braccio da Montone, Colonna, Cosimo de Medici, Eugene IV, Federico da Montefeltro, Felix V, Florence, Francesco Sforza, Martin V, Medici, Milan, Orsini, Perugia, Ravenna, Rome, Sforza, Urbino, Visconti