To celebrate the A History of Italy podcast becoming a member of the Sentire Media podcast network we go back and visit with one of our personal favourites, Matilda of Canossa Margarine of Tuscany, a woman of power in a time, the late 11th century when women were not supposed to wield power.
She ruled over lands that stretched from the confines of Rome to the confines of Italy herself, keeping pace with popes and emperors and doing her duty to the very end.
159 - Life, death and sex in the middle ages
158 - The Este of Ferrara
Interview: Artemisia Gentileschi with Lori from "Her Half of History"
25th April - Liberation
157 - Venice out of the middle ages and into uncertainty (1454 - 1492)
156 - Venice tangles with the Turks and messes with Milan (1416 - 1454)
155 - Venice has trouble with the neighbours (1400 - 1416)
154 Trentino Alto Adige (up to 1509)
153 - The assassination of Galeazzo Maria and the Moore takes control (1468 - 1494)
152 - Duke Francesco Sforza and his sex-crazed son (1450 - 1568)
151 - Milan from Visconti to Sforza (1447 - 1450)
5th anniversary
150 - Decline of the Savoy and the Holy Shroud of Turin (1451 - 1490)
149 The Genoa of Columbus (1442 - 1492)
148 - Peak and twilight of the Magnificent (1478 - 1492)
147 - The conpiracy of the crazies (1476 - 1478)
Interview with Philippa Gregory on Maria Beatrice D'Este
Halloween special: Azzurrina, the ghost of Montebello
F100: 04 The March on Rome
146 - Lorenzo vs Sixtus and America's beautiful cousin (1471 - 1476)
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