Tag: Turin

• 150 – Decline of the Savoy and the Holy Shroud of Turin (1451 – 1490)

  We go back to the north west to visit with Piedmont and the house of Savoy to take them out of the 15th century as they go through a period of decline with the rising power of France threatening their independence. It is in this period, in 1553, that the Savoy acquire the Holy Shroud,…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Anne of Lusignano, Cyprus, Emanuele Filiberto, France, Geoffry of Carney, Holy shroud, Leonardo Da Vinci, Margaret of Carny, Piedmont, Podcast, Savoy, Turin

• 082 – Charles in charge and the Sicilian Vespers

  1266-1282 Charles of Anjou settles down to govern his new kingdom… and make a mess if it, provoking the rebellion of the Sicilian Vespers.

  A History of Italy

  March 27, 2020

  Alessandria, Alfonso of Castille, Charles of Anjou, Corleone, Dante Alighieri, Genoa, Giuseppe Verdi, Gregory X, Naples, Palermo, Peter of Aragon, Podcast, Sicily, Turin, Viterbo

• 063 – After Legnano, the cool Crusade and the Italian one

  1176 – 1204 We take a look at the aftermath of the battle of Legnano which saw the forces of the Lombard League victorious against Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Then we take a quick look at the third and fourth Crusades.

  A History of Italy

  October 1, 2019

  Alessandria, Alexios, Bonifacio di Monferrato, Byzantium, Como, Constantinople, Cremona, Enrico Dandolo, Fourth Crusade, Frederick Barbarossa, Guido da Landriano, Ivrea, Legnano, Lombard League, Milan, Modena, Parma, Podcast, Pope Celestine III, Pope Gregory VIII, Pope Innocent III, Pope Lucius III, Reggio Emilia, Theobald of Champagne, Third Crusade, Turin, Venice, Verona

• 007 – Living with the Lombards

  575-589 The Lombards start to settle down and get to know the neighbourhood and the troublesome neighbours as they go through an interregnum of the Dukes before they get back to electing a king and bashing the Byzantines

  A History of Italy

  February 7, 2018

  Adaloald, Agilulf, Arian, Autari, Bavaria, Benevento, Byzantium, Catholic, Comacina, Como, Exarch, Exarchate, Frank, History, Italian, Italy, Lombard, Milan, Modena, Monza, Pavia, Podcast, Pope, Reggio, Rome, Spoleto, Theodelinda, Turin