Tag: Umbria

• 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

• 121 Braccio da Montone, Lord of Perugia (1407 – 1417)

  Braccio’s fame increases as he wins victory after victory, in central Italy, against Naples and in his involvement in the Great Western Schism, all the while with his eye on Perugia.

  A History of Italy

  October 13, 2021

  Alberico da Barbiano, Andrea Fortebraccio, Battle of St Egidio, Braccio da Montone, Carlo Malatesta, Colonna, Giangaleazzo Visconti, John XXIII, Ladislaus I of Naples, Le Marche, Martin V, Montefeltro, Muzio Attendolo Sforza, Naples, Paolo Orsiini, Perugia, Podcast, Rome, Umbria, Urbino

• 120 – Braccio da Montone, early life of a condottiero (1368 – 1406)

  Fortebraccio, known as Braccio da Montone

  A History of Italy

  October 5, 2021

  Alberico da Barbiano, Bologna, Braccio da Montone, Emilia Romagna, Le Marche, Malatesta, Montefeltro, Perugia, Pesaro, Podcast, Umbria, Urbino