European history: Renaissance

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A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a half-negro maidservant rides into Florence.

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.

A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to GalileoAgainst the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition.

Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582.

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance.

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.

Don Matzat here provides a new perspective on the life of Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the infamous Henry VIII.

Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these - the third and sixth - proved to be the weakest.

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Four generations of Brandon men lived and served six English kings, the most famous being Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, best friend and brother-in-law to King Henry VIII.

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The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history.

Anna was the 'last woman standing' of Henry VIII's wives - and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey.

On 22 August 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious.

When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy.

Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII.

Evidence of the foulness and cruelty of the greatest catastrophe ever to hit London is still being unearthed under the streets of the capital today.

A dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions.

Catherine of Aragon continues to fascinate readers 500 years after she became Henry VIII's first queen.

William Shakespeare is the world's best-loved playwright.

Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the great tragic figures of British history.

Mary Tudor has always been known as 'Bloody Mary', the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England.

Who wrote the works of Shakespeare?

'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness .

Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate?

Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life.

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country; moments of drama, suspense, intrigue.

The Tudor Period is regarded by many as England's golden age, and still casts a spell over the public imagination.

Anne Boleyn's unconventional beauty inspired poets - and she so entranced Henry VIII with her wit, allure and style that he was prepared to set aside his wife of over twenty years and risk his immortal soul.

Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain's most famous king because of it.

In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII's children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head.

Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank?

During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII.

The Wars of the Roses saw family fight family over the greatest prize - the throne of England.

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and England's national poet, died.

Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England.

The Reformation is one of the most important events in world history.

Sir Thomas Chaloner achieved much during his short life.

We don't really consider Henry VIII to have had friends, rather subjects, cronies and dutiful wives and ministers of state.

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridge's part in Shakespeare appreciation through the centuries.

In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's closest friend.