A chance visit to the beautiful Ligurian town of Porto Venere, staying in a 900 year-old tower, Torre Capitolare (https://www.capitolare.com/) gave us the opportunity to meet not only with medieval history, the Republic of Genoa and Pisa, the Castle of the Doria, but also with the Romantic ports: Byron, Keats, Percy Shelly and the great Mary Shelly, author of the novel "Frankenstein".
Thanks to our partner, Explore Worldwide (Exlore Worldwide) we have the opportunity to share with you the unforgettable trip and follow in the footsteps of the literary greats, from their memorable story-telling stormy night on the shores of Lake Geneva, to Tuscany, Liguria, Ravenna, Venice and Rome.
Love, death passion, lots of animals and lots of sex... you'll find it all in this special episode.
040 – Half-time in the investiture controversy
Christmas 2018 – Italian Christmas past and present and a Christmas witch
039 – A sticky end and the humiliation of Canossa
038 – Gregory VII and marriage counselling
037 – The Normans run out of room and the papacy out of patience
036 – Introducing a beard, a hunchback and Matilda
035 – The lion, the fox and the Great Schism
034 – Another Henry, too many popes and naughtiness in the church
033 – Here come the Normans, there goes the neighbourhood
032 – Saxons to Salians and a fake news legend
031 – A rebellion in the south, a lion in the north and how Henry II got on
Special: The massacre of Monte Sole
030 – Saxons, Saracens, Sardinia
029 – New millennium, nationalist myths, same old mess
Special: 8th September 1943, from infamy to resistance
028 – The year 1000 and life for the average Giuseppe
NC 003 – Identity crisis of a Brexit victim
Recap 02 – episodes 014 – 027
NewsCappuccino 002 – On the possible third Italian republic and unity
NewsCappuccino 001 – Choosing coffee, choosing a government and a visit to Rome
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