To celebrate the "A History of Italy" podcast joining the "Sentire" media network (sentire.media), we take a look at one of the most maligned women in history, Lucrezia Borgia. By the 20th century, her reputation was turned around a bit and from the poisoning murder and sexual predator, she became the innocent victim of the machiavellian scheming of her father, Rodrigo Borgia, pope Alexander VI and her brother Cesare Borgia, the most famous case study for Machiavelli's "The Prince".
Although this may have been true for Lucrezia the young girl, the strong and intelligent young woman who became the beloved duchess of Ferrara was no push over.
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133 – catching up with Genoa… again (1310 – 1442)
F100: The crystallisation of totalitarianism
132 The end of the Visconti- how to lose a duchy
131 – Milan, chaos in the duchy (1402 – 1412)
130 – The father of the father of the nation: the rise of the Medici (1402 – 1428)
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Re-release: 129 – Catherine of Siena – Medieval UN ambassador
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129 – Catherine of Siena – Medieval UN ambassador
128 – Caterina of Siena: God's teenage rebel
127 – Milan vs Florence: fight to the death (1395 – 1402)
126 – Visconti family feud and a new duchy is born (1378 – 1395)
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125 – War and rebellion in Tuscany (1348 to 1382)
124 – Troubled Tuscan times and Boccaccio's Decameron
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123 – The Tuscan scene and Florence rising (1302 – 1327)
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122 – Braccio da Montone's last stand (1417 – 1424)
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