The Age of the Condottieri - A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530 by Oscar Browning audiobook. Genre: history Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary companies and multinational armies who fought in the service of city states, monarchs, and the Pope. Some like Ludovico Sforza in Milan seized power and founded dynasties in their own right. The merchant princes of the Medici family reached their apogee in Lorenzo the Magnificent in Florence, but faltered in the Papacy; Leo X proved no match for Martin Luther and Clement VII was powerless to avert the sack of Rome in 1527. Venice lost her overseas empire to the Turks, while proud King Francis I, defeated by the Emperor Charles and a prisoner in Madrid, was eventually forced to relinquish all hope of Italian conquest. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:22) Chapter 02 (00:27:37) Chapter 03 (00:43:47) Chapter 04 (01:02:19) Chapter 05 (01:18:21) Chapter 06 (01:39:07) Chapter 07 (01:55:07) Chapter 08 (02:06:46) Chapter 09 (02:25:11) Chapter 10 (02:39:22) Chapter 11 (02:57:32) Chapter 12 (03:12:40) Chapter 13 (03:28:03) Chapter 14 (03:43:25) Chapter 15 (03:55:15) Chapter 16 (04:13:31) Chapter 17 (04:30:33) Chapter 18 (04:50:22) Chapter 19 (05:01:06) Chapter 20 (05:13:37) Chapter 21 (05:28:08) Chapter 22 (05:45:10) Chapter 23 (06:03:38) Chapter 24 (06:22:27) Chapter 25 (06:40:51) Chapter 26 (06:57:32) Chapter 27 (07:15:35) Chapter 28 (07:28:08) Chapter 29 (07:41:04) Chapter 30 (07:59:53) Chapter 31 (08:12:10) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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