Monty Don in Rome
Monty Don uncovers the dramatic story behind Italy’s greatest Renaissance and Baroque gardens. From Villa Farnese and Hadrian’s Villa to Villa d’Este, Bomarzo, and Villa Aldobrandini, he explores how cardinals…
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago).
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society Who Was The Naughtiest Pope In History?
In this episode, Kate is joined by Catherine Fletcher to meet one of the Vatican's randiest residents - Pope Alexander VI. From saucy parties to the scandals of the Borgia…
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit. {read} On a spring…
History Extra podcast: Renaissance eugenics
Whether it was creating super-fast thoroughbreds, or fashioning dogs small enough to fit in your sleeve, animal breeding was an obsession of the Renaissance era. And, as Mackenzie Cooley reveals,…
Witch Trials are not Medieval
they happened in the early modern period