Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History It.

Jerry Brottom, professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, is one

of the most talented history communicators out there.

Yes he is.

And because of that, he's got a new series on BBC Radio 3 about Chilini.

Ben Venuto Chilini.

He was the bad boy of the Renaissance and he was up against some pretty stiff competition.

You hear this folks, you'll agree, he was bad.

Completely remarkable.

This is a story of murders, of war, of the sack of cities, of sodomy, of being imprisoned,

of becoming a priest, and of writing one of the greatest autobiographies in history.

Chilini makes caravaggio look like a goddamn choir boy.

To do that much.

Insane.

So enjoy this episode of Podcast featuring the brilliant Jerry Brottom.

You can watch a video in which Jerry Brottom and I go on the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Looking at maps because his other great passion is maps, Renaissance maps, and we go and

look at some of the finest that are currently existing in this world, in the Bodleian Library

in Oxford.

That's available at historyhit.tv, please head over.

Historyhit.tv and get yourself plugged into a world of history.

You're going to absolutely love it.

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