Interview episode: Learning Italian with Margherita from "Italian Matters"
We talk to Margarita, Berti, Founder and owner of the "Italian matters" project about the best practice for learning Italian, including dos and don'ts, sources and approaches.If you want to look her u...
16 Jun 26min
Isabella d’Este — The First Lady of the Renaissance
In this episode of A History of Italy, we explore the extraordinary life of Isabella d’Este, one of the most influential women of the Italian Renaissance and arguably the closest thing the 15th and 16...
26 Mai 20min
Call for contributions for the podcast website
We are opening a new section of the podcast website with contributions from you, dear listener!You can send in articles, thoughts, family stories and so on.They should be:Pertinent to Italy, trips to ...
14 Mai 2min
Interview episode: The Toscanini conspiracy with Filippo Iannarone
When the president of the brand new Republic of Italy, Luigi Einaudi decides in 1946 he wants to exercise his right to select 5 illustrious Italians to be senators for life, one of his choices falls o...
5 Mai 27min
205 - Venice back on its feet (more or less (1516 to 1540)
Episode SummaryThe 16th century didn’t start kindly for the Republic of Venice—but if history has taught us anything, it’s that Venice had a knack for bouncing back.In this episode, we follow Venice f...
21 Apr 17min
204 - The Rustic War in Trentino
Here are your show notes, in the same structured style and tone as before:Show NotesLink to Trentino tour: https://voicemap.me/tour/trento/italy-s-gateway-to-europe-from-medieval-to-modern-trentoEpiso...
7 Apr 19min
203 - Piedmont and the Savoy in the early 1500's - How to lose a duchy
Episode OverviewContinuing our tour of the Italian peninsula in the early 1500s, we move north from the Kingdom of Naples, through the Papal States and Tuscany, across the Apennines, past Genoa, and i...
17 Mar 15min
