121 Episodes

  1. #60 The Lie Factory

    Published: 7/24/2019
  2. #59 Niccolo de Niccoli

    Published: 7/21/2019
  3. #58 How The Christians Wiped Out Epicureanism

    Published: 7/4/2019
  4. #57 Lucretius “On The Nature Of Things”

    Published: 6/28/2019
  5. #56 Poggio Bracciolini Part 4

    Published: 6/24/2019
  6. #55 Poggio Bracciolini Part 3

    Published: 6/7/2019
  7. #54 Poggio Bracciolini Part 2

    Published: 5/31/2019
  8. #53 Poggio Bracciolini

    Published: 5/25/2019
  9. #52 The Rise Of The Medici (part 14)

    Published: 5/10/2019
  10. #51 The Rise Of The Medici (part 13)

    Published: 5/2/2019
  11. #50 The Rise Of The Medici (part 12)

    Published: 4/26/2019
  12. #49 The Rise Of The Medici (part 11)

    Published: 4/11/2019
  13. #48 The Rise Of The Medici (part 10)

    Published: 4/3/2019
  14. #47 The Rise Of The Medici (part 9)

    Published: 3/29/2019
  15. #46 The Rise Of The Medici (part 8)

    Published: 3/15/2019
  16. #45 The Rise Of The Medici (part 7)

    Published: 3/7/2019
  17. #44 The Rise Of The Medici (part 6)

    Published: 3/1/2019
  18. #43 The Rise Of The Medici (part 5)

    Published: 2/14/2019
  19. #42 The Rise Of The Medici (part 4)

    Published: 2/7/2019
  20. #41 David & Goliath

    Published: 2/2/2019

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Starting in Florence in the 14th century, a new era began to emerge in the West. People like Petrarch, who re-discovered Cicero’s lost letters, and the new humanists - who valued the study of classical antiquity - ushered in a rebirth, or as we know it today, a “renaissance" - in the study of the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and the theatre. They rediscovered what it meant to be human.