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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Amongst the Medici"

Roundup

12-31-69

Bettany Hughes on the Medici: Smart Women, Gay Men and False Gods [30min]

Historian Bettany Hughes concludes her journey through the beauty and the blood of renaissance Florence. This week she finds that, contrary to popular belief, it was smart women, gay men and false gods who made the corner stones of western civilisation.

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Amongst the Medici"