The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 2: Seasons of Power & Pleasure
We trace Venice's remarkable flowering between the 1300s and 1500s, in which it astonished Europe as a center of commercial and imperial power, learning, and art, as well as its repeated struggles -- with the bubonic plague, the Ottoman Turks, the rival Italian states, and the Catholic Church -- that forced Venice to…
We score an episode from what we can actually measure — its reach and engagement, what listeners say about it, and what it covers. We don't have those signals for this one yet, so it doesn't get a number.
Buzzmeter says it's buzzing across platforms — the Hive Vote says whether the people who actually listened liked it.
Rate this episode
Add your vote to the Hive — listeners rate every episode after they finish.
- No reviews yet — be the first.
More from Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
See all episodes →
68%UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 24: The Epic of Gilgamesh -- pt. 1: The History
67%Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 1: Conceiving a Catastrophe
67%Unlocked -- The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?
Similar episodes from other shows
More like Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong →
The Republic of Venice
The Venetian Empire
The Rise and Fall of Venice
The Forgotten Empire of Venice Before the Tourists Arrived | Boring History for Sleep
One great episode in your inbox, daily — free.
One email a day, unsubscribe anytime. No spam, ever.