Renaissance

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, rulers of Renaissance Florence.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.

The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.

Melvyn Bragg examines the 1453 siege of Constantinople which ended the Byzantine Empire.

Melvyn Bragg examines Dante’s ‘Inferno’, a medieval journey through Hell’s nine circles

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the great French writer Michel de Montaigne.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the return of classical pagan thought in the Renaissance.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.

Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rudolph II and his Renaissance Court in Prague.

Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.

Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of the individual from the Renaissance to today.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Raphael's depiction of Plato and Aristotle.

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of concepts and ideas on youth from antiquity to today.