Turning Modern

Category: Tangent Episodes

  • Tangent Episode #3: The Life and Times of Dante

    Domenico Peterlini, Dante in Exile, ca. 1860, at the Gallery of Modern Arts in Florence.

    He was a political exile who sided with the wrong people at the wrong time and lost the love of his life. Also he was one of the greatest writers in history and got to shape the modern Italian language. 

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  • Tangent Episode #1: The Further Adventures of Liutprand of Cremona

    In our first tangent episode, we spend some time with Liutprand of Cremona, everyone’s favorite caustic bishop from the Early Middle Ages. Join us for his account of Queen Willa’s disastrous love affair with a well-endowed priest and his ill-fated visit to Constantinople in the time of the Macedonian dynasty.