The Italian Wars, Part 1
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Italian Wars were the defining conflict of the sixteenth century, bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Today, we explore their origins in medieval dynastic infighting and their opening stages, as King Charles VIII of France rolled south into Italy and changed European politics forever.
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| 0:05.2 | The Tramp of Marching Feet and the Shouting of Orders broke the stillness of the Southern |
| 0:21.5 | Italian Spring. |
| 0:23.4 | The morning was already hot. |
| 0:25.2 | The sunlight muted only by a low haze that added a dose of swampy humidity to the blazing |
| 0:30.9 | heat. |
| 0:32.7 | Sweat rolled down the foreheads and backs of thousands of soldiers jammed inside steel |
| 0:37.1 | helmets and breastplates. |
| 0:39.6 | Dehydration and heat stroke might kill them before the enemy ever got a chance here on |
| 0:44.1 | April 28, 1503. |
| 0:47.4 | The babble of voices and half a dozen different languages rolled down a gentle slope made |
| 0:52.2 | higher by a recently raised earthen embankment. |
| 0:56.3 | Men from Valencia and Ex-Tremadura, marked by old scars of the long wars against the |
| 1:01.5 | moors of Grenada, checked that the powder for their archibuses, thick beryld matchlock |
| 1:06.4 | firearms, was dry and ready. |
| 1:09.9 | Italian men at arms, veterans of the Kundalteaed companies that had fought in Italy for so many |
| 1:14.6 | generations, flinched when bare skin touched the superheated metal of their fine plate |
| 1:19.6 | arm. |
| 1:21.1 | Lansknecht mercenaries from the prosperous towns of southern Germany tested their long |
| 1:25.6 | pipes, wiped congealed sweat from their jaunty black and red and yellow hats, and readyed |
| 1:30.9 | themselves behind the embankment. |
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