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Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a history podcast for everyone.

For people who don't like history, people who do like history and people who forgot to

learn a new at school.

My name is Greg Jenner, I am a public historian, author and broadcaster and I'm the Chief

Nerd on the BBC Comedy Show Horrible Histories.

You might have also heard my other podcast, Home School History, although that one's mostly

for the kids.

What about this podcast?

Well, here we do things a bit different.

We weave together threads of history and historical ha-has to outfit you in the finest robes of

hilarity.

No returns, all sails our final.

Today we are donning our papal casics and journeying back 500 years to visit the Vatican, not

to receive holy orders, but to learn about the salacious, shrewd and saucy Borsha family.

And to help me tell verified fact from Vatican gossip, I'm joined by two very special guests.

In history corner, we have a literal Renaissance woman.

She is a professor of Renaissance history and Manchester Metropolitan University and the

author of a brilliant new book, The Beauty and the Terror, an alternative history of the

Italian Renaissance.

She's currently writing a chapter on today's subjects for the Cambridge History of the

Papacy, plus she's a BBC new generation thinker and she was one of the historical

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