103 – Catching up with Genoa (up to 1310's)
A History of Italy - Podcast autorstwa Mike Corradi - Wtorki
It's about time we stop ignoring poor old Genoa up in the top left-hand corner of the country and bring her up-to-date. We take a really quick race from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to Genoa in the 14th century: it's battles against Saracens, Pisans and Venitians as it fights to assert itself as a powerful maritime republic.