The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (TRIH ep 574, part 3)
1490 · Resource
The episode examines late 15th-century Florence, focusing on Lorenzo de' Medici's rule and the rise of Girolamo Savonarola. Holland and Sandbrook discuss Lorenzo's diplomacy, patronage, cultural influence and mounting financial problems: his ostentatious generosity masked growing debt and mismanagement of the Medici bank.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1490
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)