Tag: Venice

• 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

• 157 – Venice out of the middle ages and into uncertainty (1454 – 1492)

  After the peace of Lodi, the relative stability on the peninsula allows Venice to concentrate on the Ottomans again and the inevitable first war breaks out in 1463. Before that, we see one of the few doge’s to actually be deposed, Francesco Foscari a record breaking doge for various reasons and sexy actor in “The Medici” Tv series. Then, when Venice reaches a rather humiliating…

  A History of Italy

  May 3, 2023

  Arsenale, Bagnolo, Charles VIII, Courtesan, Este, Ferrara, Foscari, Girolamo Riario, Jacopo Foscari, Ludovico il Moro, Medici, Negroponte, Ottoman, Pasquale Malpiero, Pius II, Podcast, Sixtus IV, Turk, Venice

• 156 – Venice tangles with the Turks and messes with Milan (1416 – 1454)

  Venice, after trying to avoid it, goes to war with the Turks and at the Battle of Gallipoli a spectacular victory is won… but by who? Then, we see how Venice used an ex ,mercenary captain of Milan against his old employers, Carmagnola, but then, when the Serenissima started to suspect him, he met an unfortunate end. Finally we relive one of…

  A History of Italy

  April 4, 2023

  Bardonlino, Battle of Gallipoli, Brescia, Carmagnola, Castello Scaligero, Francesco Bussone, Francesco Foscari, Gallipoli, Lake Garda, Lazise, Milan, Ottoman Turks, Pietro Loredan, Sirmione, Tommaso Mocenigo, Torbole, Venice, Verona

• 155 – Venice has trouble with the neighbours (1400 – 1416)

  We come round to Venice to see how they were doing at the start of the 15th century, dealing with neighbours such as the duchy of Milan under Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Padua under the Da Carrara and the formidable Sigismund king of Hungary and his general Pippo Spano.  Before that we take some time to have a look at the political structure of the…

  A History of Italy

  March 14, 2023

  Aquileia, Croatia, Da Carrara, Dalmatia, Della Scala, Doge, Duchy of Milan, Garda, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Gran Consiglio, Hungary, Ladislaus of Naples, Marina Gallina, Michele Steno, Milan, Padua, Pippo Spano, Podcast, Sigismund of Luxemburg, Venice, Verona

• 152 – Duke Francesco Sforza and his sex-crazed son (1450 – 1568)

  Shortly after becoming duke, Francesco Sforza has to deal with a war against Venice, but then the peace of Lodi and the Italic league allow him some time to consolidate his power and start building projects in Milan, as well as chase after women, ending his life with a total of 35 children, only 8…

  A History of Italy

  February 20, 2023

  Arengo, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Bianca Maria Visconti, Bona of Savoy, Federico da Montefeltro, Ferdinand of Naples, Florence, Francesco Sforza, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Genoa, Italic league, Lorenzo De Medici, Lucrezia Landriani, Molinella, Peace of Lodi, Piacenza, Piccinini, Piero De Medici, Podcast, Riccardina, Savona, Tristano Sforza, Urbino, Venice