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#24 – The Father Of The Renaissance (part three)
"Africa" became alternately Petrarch’s obsession and his revulsion, and he left it incomplete at his death. Despite Petrarch's best efforts to conceal his occupation, word of the Africa…
#23 – The Father Of The Renaissance (part two)
Now that his parents are dead, Petrarch decides to dump law and become a scholar and a poet. But you couldn’t make a living as a poet in…
#22 – The Father Of The Renaissance (part one)
I want to pick up our story in the year 1302 To talk about a man called Pietro di Parenzo di Garzo. Well actually I want to talk…
#21 – Enter The Lombards
Justin was born near modern Skopje, in the fake Macedonia. He started off life as a peasant and a swineherd. But he rose through the ranks of the…