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Jan 15, 2024
Episode | Date |
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181 - Cesare Borgia flying high (1501 - 1502)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
180 - The Challenge of Barletta (1503)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
179 - Italian Wars 9: The Fall of Naples and France vs Spain
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Oct 22, 2024 |
178 New triumphs for Cesare and Naples under three (again) 1500 - 1501
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Oct 08, 2024 |
177 - Italian Wars 8 - Il Moro back in Milan… for a bit (1500 - 1508)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
176 - Cesare the conqueror (1499 - 1500)
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Sep 10, 2024 |
175 - The Italian Wars 7 - Milan under threat (1499)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
174 - The last stand of the tigress - Caterina Sforza part IV (1499 - 1509)
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Aug 13, 2024 |
173 - The roar of tigress - Caterina Sforza part III (1488 - 1499)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
The Tigress in her Den - Caterina Sforza part II (1481 - 1488)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
171 - The Tigress rising: Caterina Sforza part 1 (1464 - 1481)
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Jul 02, 2024 |
170 - The Gonzaga of Mantua Mantua
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Special: Republic Day 2024
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Jun 04, 2024 |
169 - The Italian Wars 6 - round 1 aftermath, the north
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May 21, 2024 |
168 - The Italian war 5 - round 1 aftermath - the south and centre
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May 07, 2024 |
167 - The Italian Wars 4 - Charles has left the building (1495 - 1498)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
166 - The Italian Wars 3 - finally Naples… for a bit (1495)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
Special - The Gulf of poets: Byron, Keats and Shelly in Italy
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Mar 26, 2024 |
165 - The Borgias are the bosses (1492 - 1497)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Special - Lucrezia Borgia
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Special - Caterina of Siena
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Special - Matilde di Canossa
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Mar 05, 2024 |
164 - The rise of the Borgias
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Jan 23, 2024 |
6th Anniversary episode - Best of the sketches
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Interview on the Aldo Moro Affair with Simon Gaul, Author of "White Suicide"
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Dec 19, 2023 |
163 - The rise and Fall of Gerolamo Savonarola
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Dec 12, 2023 |
162 - The Italian wars 2- opening hostilities and the Medici get kicked out
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Nov 28, 2023 |
161 - The Italian wars 1: setting up and setting off
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Recap 07 - Episodes 139 to 160
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Oct 26, 2023 |
Special: 9th October 1963 - Vajont, a man-made natural disaster
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Oct 10, 2023 |
Quick annoucement - demolition work in progress
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Oct 03, 2023 |
160 - Federico Da Montefeltro and bits getting cut off
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Summer announcement - listen even if you haven't cought up
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Jul 26, 2023 |
159 - Life, death and sex in the middle ages
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Jun 13, 2023 |
158 - The Este of Ferrara
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May 23, 2023 |
Interview: Artemisia Gentileschi with Lori from "Her Half of History"
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May 09, 2023 |
25th April - Liberation
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Apr 25, 2023 |
157 - Venice out of the middle ages and into uncertainty (1454 - 1492)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
156 - Venice tangles with the Turks and messes with Milan (1416 - 1454)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
155 - Venice has trouble with the neighbours (1400 - 1416)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
154 Trentino Alto Adige (up to 1509)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
153 - The assassination of Galeazzo Maria and the Moore takes control (1468 - 1494)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
152 - Duke Francesco Sforza and his sex-crazed son (1450 - 1568)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
151 - Milan from Visconti to Sforza (1447 - 1450)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
5th anniversary
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Jan 10, 2023 |
150 - Decline of the Savoy and the Holy Shroud of Turin (1451 - 1490)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
149 The Genoa of Columbus (1442 - 1492)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
148 - Peak and twilight of the Magnificent (1478 - 1492)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
147 - The conpiracy of the crazies (1476 - 1478)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
Interview with Philippa Gregory on Maria Beatrice D'Este
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Nov 08, 2022 |
Halloween special: Azzurrina, the ghost of Montebello
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Oct 31, 2022 |
F100: 04 The March on Rome
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Oct 28, 2022 |
146 - Lorenzo vs Sixtus and America's beautiful cousin (1471 - 1476)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
145 - Fleeting youth, Lorenzo de Medici's early years (1468 - 1471)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
144 - A sickly father, a magnificent mother amd balls (1464 - 1468)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
143 Cosimus Medices Pater Patriae (1429 - 1464)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
142 - pope-ing out of the Middle ages (1447 - 1492)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
141 - The popes are back in business (1417 - 1447)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
140 - King Ferdinand's woes (1458 - 1492)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
AMM: Paolo Borsellino and Rita Atria
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Jul 19, 2022 |
139 - King Alphonse of Naples (1436 - 1458)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
138 - Aragonese Sardinia and Sicily (1410 - 1500)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
137 - The Republic of San Marino
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Jun 07, 2022 |
Special: Anti-Judaism in Medieval Italy - The case of Simonino da Trento with Lorenzo Paluan
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May 31, 2022 |
Recap 06: Episode 101 - 136
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May 25, 2022 |
136 - Savoy from count to duke to pope (1391 - 1451)
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May 10, 2022 |
Anti-mafia martyrs - Pio La Torre, the mafia fighting communist
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May 03, 2022 |
F100: Before Evil - Interview with Brandon Gauthier on Benito Mussolini
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Apr 26, 2022 |
135 - Savoy - different coloured counts and a murder mystery (1255 - 1391)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Announcement: 200th upload, new platform, new logo and happy birthday!
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Apr 05, 2022 |
134 - Piedmont and the rise of the house of Savoy
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Mar 22, 2022 |
F100: 03b The occupation of Fiume part 02
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Mar 15, 2022 |
F100: 03a The occupation of Fiume - part 01
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Mar 08, 2022 |
F100 Memories of Ukraine - an Italian ode to Odessa
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Mar 01, 2022 |
133 – catching up with Genoa… again (1310 – 1442)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
F100: The crystallisation of totalitarianism
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Feb 08, 2022 |
132 The end of the Visconti- how to lose a duchy
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Feb 02, 2022 |
131 – Milan, chaos in the duchy (1402 – 1412)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
130 – The father of the father of the nation: the rise of the Medici (1402 – 1428)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
4th anniversary episode
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Re-release: 129 – Catherine of Siena – Medieval UN ambassador
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Dec 29, 2021 |
Happy Whatever episode
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Dec 25, 2021 |
129 – Catherine of Siena – Medieval UN ambassador
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Dec 21, 2021 |
128 – Caterina of Siena: God's teenage rebel
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Dec 14, 2021 |
127 – Milan vs Florence: fight to the death (1395 – 1402)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
126 – Visconti family feud and a new duchy is born (1378 – 1395)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
The Great Q & A session
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Nov 23, 2021 |
125 – War and rebellion in Tuscany (1348 to 1382)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
124 – Troubled Tuscan times and Boccaccio's Decameron
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Halloween Special: The Ghost of Bardi Castle
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Oct 31, 2021 |
123 – The Tuscan scene and Florence rising (1302 – 1327)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
Tech update test and free "NewsCappuccino" episode
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Oct 20, 2021 |
122 – Braccio da Montone's last stand (1417 – 1424)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
121 Braccio da Montone, Lord of Perugia (1407 – 1417)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
120 – Braccio da Montone, early life of a condottiero (1368 – 1406)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
119 – Joanna II of Naples and some schism fixing
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Sep 21, 2021 |
118 Sicily goes Spanish and Naples gets big ideas (1372 – 1414)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
The bagpipes of resistance – Crossover ep. with "The History of England"
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Aug 03, 2021 |
117 – Eleonora of Arborea and the fall of Sardinia (1326 – 1410)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
NewsCappuccino: Roman helmets and insulting Austria – The Italian national anthem
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Jun 17, 2021 |
F100: 02 Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, early years
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Jun 15, 2021 |
116 – Venice in mortal peril (1356 – 1400)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Special: Republic Day 2021
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Jun 02, 2021 |
115 – Hard times for Venice, a very naughty doge and some funny names (1339 – 1356)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
Anti-mafia martyrs: Giovanni Falcone
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May 23, 2021 |
114 – More Milan and popey come home (1345 – 1385)
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May 19, 2021 |
F100: 01 What is Fascism?
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May 15, 2021 |
Coming soon: Fascism 100
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May 11, 2021 |
Special: The Aldo Moro assassination with Lorenzo Paluan
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May 09, 2021 |
113 – The definitive death of communal Milan (1339 – 1354)
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May 05, 2021 |
112 – Queen Joanna of Naples (1345 – 1382)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
Crossover: Colombus and Genoa with the History of North America
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Interview: Jennifer Anton, author of "Under the Light of the Italian Moon"
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Mar 08, 2021 |
111 – Joanna of Naples, teenage queen with a boring husband (1326 – 1345)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
110 – Cola fizzes and goes flat (1347 – 1354)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
109 – Popeless Rome and the rise of Cola (not the drink)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Fill-in episode – 2021 Italian government crisis
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Feb 07, 2021 |
108 – Italians against stairs
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Jan 19, 2021 |
107 – An unexpected king
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Jan 12, 2021 |
106 – An imperial tour of Italy (1327-1329)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
105 – The battle of the Bucket (1325)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
104 – The last Sardinian Judicate (1323-1326)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
103 – Catching up with Genoa (up to 1310's)
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Dec 08, 2020 |
102 – Venice kicks off its 14th century (up to 1310's)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
The first great MEGA-RECAP launch
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Nov 28, 2020 |
101 – The many paths to communal demise (up to early 1300's)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Recap 05 – From episode 077 to 100
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Nov 10, 2020 |
Berlusconi and Bunga Bunga part 3
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Nov 03, 2020 |
Berlusconi and Bunga Bunga part 2
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Berlusconi and Bunga Bunga part 1
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Oct 20, 2020 |
100 – An interview the godfather of history podcasting and more
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Oct 13, 2020 |
099 – The Visconti lose Milan and take it back again
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Oct 06, 2020 |
098 – The Visconti take Milan, Act 1
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Sep 28, 2020 |
Anti-mafia martyrs: Father Pino Puglisi
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Sep 15, 2020 |
097 – Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy
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Sep 08, 2020 |
Anti-mafia martyrs: Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
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Sep 03, 2020 |
Anti-mafia martyrs series launch
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Sep 01, 2020 |
096 – Florence goes black and white and Dante gets involved
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Aug 26, 2020 |
095 – Young Dante Alighieri and Florence
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Aug 19, 2020 |
094 – Naples vs Sicily
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Aug 02, 2020 |
093 – A change of scenery for the papacy and an anachronistic emperor
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Jul 18, 2020 |
092 – Boniface VIII peaks and crashes
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Jun 26, 2020 |
091 – Boniface VIII on the scene
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Jun 21, 2020 |
090 – Twilight of the Sardinian Judicates
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Jun 12, 2020 |
089 – The "cannibal" count – an example of late 13th century Italian politics
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Jun 04, 2020 |
088 – Twilight of the communes
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May 16, 2020 |
087 – Marco Polo part 2
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May 09, 2020 |
086 – Marco Polo part 1
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Apr 30, 2020 |
Special: 25th April Liberation
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Apr 25, 2020 |
085 – The war of the Sicilian Vespers gets confusing
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Apr 17, 2020 |
084 – The war of the Sicilian Vespers
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Apr 10, 2020 |
083 – Who are these Aragonese anyway? With David Cot of "The History of Spain"
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Apr 02, 2020 |
082 – Charles in charge and the Sicilian Vespers
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Mar 27, 2020 |
081 – The last stand of the house of Staufen with guest host Marco Cappelli
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Mar 19, 2020 |
080 – Frederick II's boys and here come the French
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Mar 13, 2020 |
079 – The Prisoner King and the rest of Frederick II's boys
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Mar 05, 2020 |
078 – The Golden age of communes
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Feb 27, 2020 |
077 – The situation in the 13th century and revenge in Florence
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Feb 20, 2020 |
Recap 04: Episodes 051 – 076 from the Concordat of Worms to the death of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
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Feb 11, 2020 |
076 – St. Francis of Assisi
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Feb 06, 2020 |
075 – Heresies and the Inquisition
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Jan 21, 2020 |
074 – Goodbye Freddie II
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Jan 14, 2020 |
073 – Frederick II stupor mundi (and a bit naughty)
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Jan 08, 2020 |
072 – Frederick II takes the reigns and trouble starts
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Dec 29, 2019 |
071 – Wonderboy rising: Freddie II
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Dec 23, 2019 |
070 – No more Normans and Horrid Henry
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Dec 12, 2019 |
069 – Venice part 06
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Dec 04, 2019 |
068 – Venice part 05
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Nov 28, 2019 |
067 – Venice part 04
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Nov 14, 2019 |
066 – Venice part 03
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Nov 07, 2019 |
065 – Venice part 02
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Nov 01, 2019 |
064 – Venice part 01
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Oct 24, 2019 |
Assassinations crossover part 2 – The fall of the Borgias
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Oct 15, 2019 |
Assassinations crossover part 1 – The Rise of the Borgias
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Oct 08, 2019 |
063 – After Legnano, the cool Crusade and the Italian one
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Oct 01, 2019 |
062 – The battle of Legnano
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Sep 24, 2019 |
061 – Prelude to Legnano
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Sep 13, 2019 |
Crossover 1 part 2 – With "The History of the Papacy" on the Lombards
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Sep 03, 2019 |
Crossover 1 part 1 – With "The History of the Papacy" on the Lombards
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Aug 27, 2019 |
060 – A communal storm arising
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Aug 20, 2019 |
059 – Barbarossa brings the heat
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Aug 14, 2019 |
058 – Byzantium is back and so is Barbarossa
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Aug 07, 2019 |
057 – Hadrian and Frederick's troubles in Rome
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Jul 30, 2019 |
056 – Communal growing pains, an English pope and Barbarossa on the scene
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Jul 23, 2019 |
Fill in episode – Women's world cup and how offsides came to Pulaski, VA
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Jul 12, 2019 |
Fill-in episode – A trip to Puglia and listener questions
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Jul 03, 2019 |
055 – A new Roman Republic and a kind-of crusade
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Jun 13, 2019 |
054 – A troubled new kingdom and cantankerous communes
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Jun 07, 2019 |
053 – Guelfs, Ghibellines and Normans with big ideas
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May 29, 2019 |
052 – A wander around in the early 12th century
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May 21, 2019 |
051 – Communes rising
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May 14, 2019 |
Recap 03: Episodes 28 – 50 from the year 1000 to the concordat of Worms in 1122
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May 01, 2019 |
050 – Arrivederci Arabs, the Emirate of Sicily part 2
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Apr 22, 2019 |
049 – Arrivederci Arabs, the Emirate of Sicily part 1
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Apr 15, 2019 |
048 – Bye bye Byzantines -The end of Byzantine Italy part 2
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Apr 01, 2019 |
047 – Bye bye Byzantines – The end of Byzantine Italy part 1
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Mar 20, 2019 |
046 – Matilda of Tuscany, the iron countess of Canossa, part 2
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Mar 05, 2019 |
045 – Matilda of Tuscany, the iron countess of Canossa Part 1
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Feb 25, 2019 |
044 – Goodbye Henry, goodbye Matilda and a can of worms
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Feb 16, 2019 |
Interview – The massacre of the Foibe and the Italian Istrian exodus with Roberta Alessandra Belulovich
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Feb 10, 2019 |
043 – A crusading we will go
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Feb 04, 2019 |
Special: Italy's role in the holocaust
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Jan 28, 2019 |
042 – An "Urban" pope and an imperial soap opera
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Jan 20, 2019 |
041 – A Runaway pope and the end of the Fox
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Jan 12, 2019 |
NC 013 – Happy birthday podcast and national stereotypes
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Jan 05, 2019 |
040 – Half-time in the investiture controversy
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Jan 03, 2019 |
Christmas 2018 – Italian Christmas past and present and a Christmas witch
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Dec 26, 2018 |
039 – A sticky end and the humiliation of Canossa
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Dec 19, 2018 |
038 – Gregory VII and marriage counselling
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Dec 12, 2018 |
037 – The Normans run out of room and the papacy out of patience
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Dec 05, 2018 |
036 – Introducing a beard, a hunchback and Matilda
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Nov 28, 2018 |
035 – The lion, the fox and the Great Schism
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Nov 22, 2018 |
034 – Another Henry, too many popes and naughtiness in the church
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Nov 11, 2018 |
033 – Here come the Normans, there goes the neighbourhood
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Oct 28, 2018 |
032 – Saxons to Salians and a fake news legend
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Oct 18, 2018 |
031 – A rebellion in the south, a lion in the north and how Henry II got on
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Oct 10, 2018 |
Special: The massacre of Monte Sole
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Sep 30, 2018 |
030 – Saxons, Saracens, Sardinia
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Sep 26, 2018 |
029 – New millennium, nationalist myths, same old mess
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Sep 17, 2018 |
Special: 8th September 1943, from infamy to resistance
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Sep 10, 2018 |
028 – The year 1000 and life for the average Giuseppe
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Sep 03, 2018 |
NC 003 – Identity crisis of a Brexit victim
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Aug 30, 2018 |
Recap 02 – episodes 014 – 027
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Aug 27, 2018 |
NewsCappuccino 002 – On the possible third Italian republic and unity
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Aug 23, 2018 |
NewsCappuccino 001 – Choosing coffee, choosing a government and a visit to Rome
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Aug 23, 2018 |
NewsCappuccino 000 – Launch episode
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Aug 23, 2018 |
027 – Yet another Otto (III)
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Aug 19, 2018 |
026 – Another Otto (II)
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Aug 12, 2018 |
025 – Ottonian Italy
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Aug 05, 2018 |
Interview – Daniela Pellacani on Ciro Menotti
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Jul 27, 2018 |
024 – Outstanding Otto and more mess from a porn pope
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Jul 21, 2018 |
023 – Here come the Ottonians
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Jul 14, 2018 |
022 – More mischief from Marozia
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Jun 30, 2018 |
021 – Rowdy Roman Revelry: Marozia's pornocracy
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Jun 21, 2018 |
020 – Annoying anarchy
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Jun 13, 2018 |
019 – Feudal fun with the Franks
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Jun 08, 2018 |
Special: Republic Day and an unprecedented institutional crisis
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May 30, 2018 |
018 – A clear-up on kingdoms and back up the boot in the ninth century
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May 24, 2018 |
017 – Some silly Syracusans, some Saracens and Sicily, plus pirates
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May 17, 2018 |
016 – Italy after Charlemagne
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May 09, 2018 |
Special: A load of baloney from Bologna part 2
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May 02, 2018 |
Special: A load of baloney from Bologna Part 1
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Apr 27, 2018 |
015 – A Confusing Christmas Coronation
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Apr 18, 2018 |
014 – Carolingian Italy
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Apr 11, 2018 |
Recap 01 Episodes 001 – 013 from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the fall of the Lombards
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Apr 04, 2018 |
013 - A look at the Catholic church
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Mar 28, 2018 |
Interview – Dario Pedrazzini on the Lombards
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Mar 28, 2018 |
012 – Here come the Franks
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Mar 21, 2018 |
011 – The Lombards' last linger in the limelight
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Mar 14, 2018 |
Special: The 2018 Italian election
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Mar 07, 2018 |
010 – Getting tired of living with the Lombards
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Feb 28, 2018 |
009 – A crazy confusing conundrum of kings
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Feb 21, 2018 |
008 – The Lombards get comfy and some laws
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Feb 14, 2018 |
007 – Living with the Lombards
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Feb 07, 2018 |
006 – Here come the Lombards
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Jan 31, 2018 |
005 – The Gothic War continues
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Jan 24, 2018 |
004 – Queen Amalasuntha and Byztantium gets annoyed
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Jan 17, 2018 |
003 – Theodoric and the rise and fall of the Ostrogoth kingdom
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Jan 10, 2018 |
002 – The new Italian kingdom from Odoacer to Theodoric
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Jan 03, 2018 |
001 – The end of the end and the beginning of the beginning (408 - 476)
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Jan 03, 2018 |
000 – Launch
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Oct 06, 2017 |
Trailer
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Oct 01, 2017 |