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.
Crossover 2 part 1 – The Rise of the Borgias
063 – After Legnano, the cool Crusade and the Italian one
062 – The battle of Legnano
061 – Prelude to Legnano
Crossover 1 part 2 – With "The History of the Papacy" on the Lombards
Crossover 1 part 1 – With "The History of the Papacy" on the Lombards
060 – A communal storm arising
059 – Barbarossa brings the heat
058 – Byzantium is back and so is Barbarossa
057 – Hadrian and Frederick's troubles in Rome
056 – Communal growing pains, an English pope and Barbarossa on the scene
Fill in episode – Women's world cup and how offsides came to Pulaski, VA
Fill-in episode – A trip to Puglia and listener questions
055 – A new Roman Republic and a kind-of crusade
054 – A troubled new kingdom and cantankerous communes
053 – Guelfs, Ghibellines and Normans with big ideas
052 – A wander around in the early 12th century
051 – Communes rising
Recap 03: Episodes 28 – 50 from the year 1000 to the concordat of Worms in 1122
050 – Arrivederci Arabs, the Emirate of Sicily part 2
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