Tag: Signoria

• 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

• 143 Cosimus Medices Pater Patriae (1429 – 1464)

  We finally get into the Medici in style with the man who is considered the founder of the family’s great fortune and political dominance. We follow Cosimo de Medici as he slowly asserts his power over the Republic of Florence with careful internal and external political manoeuvring to form what some have called the “crypto-signoria”…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Albizzi, Cosimo de Medici, Donatello, Donatello Santi, Florence, Giuliano De Medici, Lorenzo De Medici, Medici bank, Michaeangelo, Michelangelo, Milan, Naples, Nicholas V, Pitti, Pope, Sforza, Signoria, Urbino, Uzzano

• 124 – Troubled Tuscan times and Boccaccio’s Decameron

  After following Florence and Tuscany through a mini golden age from the 1280’s to the 1330’s we see things really start to go downhill with social tensions between the Arti Maggiori, the greater guilds, and the arti minori, the lesser guilds, exacerbated also by the very brief dominion over Florence by Walter of Brienne. We…

  A History of Italy

  November 9, 2021

  ArtiMaggiori, Black Death, Bocaccio, Florence, Great plague, Gualtiero di Brienne, Guild, Petrarch, Podcast, Signoria, Tuscany, Walter of Brienne