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Venice Special Episode 2 - Paved With Good Intentions

9/1/2013

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Venice Special Episode 2: Paved With Good Intentions, is ready for download! This is the first of two special epiodes on Venice that will cover the 4th Crusade. It's a tragically human tale that begins as an attempt to liberate Jerusalem and ends with the Crusader sack of Constantinople. Also, make sure to check out The History of Byzantium podcast at www.thehistoryofbyzantium.com, or on Facebook. Download Venice Special Episode 2
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ray
9/2/2013 02:29:07 am

guys bravo on the podcast but guys work on pronouncing the names . it modenA not Modina and it jewseppe when you say Giuseppe .... but keep going as a descendant of one of the insurgents of the days of Brescia 1849 I am proud of what you are doing. viva italia

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Benjamin
9/10/2013 11:00:10 am

Thanks, we're working on the pronunciation. We re-recorded parts of episodes 1 & 2 and uploaded them, hopefully this helps.

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David
9/4/2013 03:17:53 pm

Thanks for putting out these podcasts. A great addition. The Venice editions are a special highlight - would love a future series to go into more details.

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Benjamin
9/10/2013 11:00:38 am

Glad you like it! Yes, I will certainly do more on Venice's economic history if I do a full series on them.

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Mike T
9/9/2013 01:33:23 pm

Thanks so much for doing these podcasts! I just discovered you 9/8/13. I am through episode 3. Just by chance I happened to be studying this period in Italian History as part of my genealogy research. My grandmother told me that her Grandfather left Italy "because of a civil war and ended up fighting in the civil war here"..according to the census he emigrated in 1862..so that could be true..so my hope for your future podcasts would be to learn more about the Italians who immigrated to America I know there was a "Garibaldi Brigade" in our Civil War..have you read Lucy Riall's "Garibaldi: Invention of a hero"? Anyway thanks again!

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Benjamin
9/10/2013 11:02:49 am

Hmm, that's an angle I hadn't considered. I'll start looking into that, maybe at the end of the series I can do a few episodes on the Italian diaspora. Thanks for the idea!

Yes, I'm currently reading Riall's biography of Garibaldi, alongside Christopher Hibbert's biography. I'll put Riall's book on my bibliography, thanks for the reminder.

Glad you like the show!

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