Evelyn Welch
Professor of Renaissance Studies at King's College London
6 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Catherine Fletcher
Covers topics in categories such as:
The Medici
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life during the Renaissance.
26 December 2013
Also featuring: Robert Black, Catherine Fletcher
The Borgias
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Borgias, the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy, famed for their treachery and corruption under the papacy of Alexander VI.
22 November 2012
Also featuring: Catherine Fletcher, Christine Shaw
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Lives of the Artists, the great biographer Giorgio Vasari's study of Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects.
27 May 2010
Also featuring: David Ekserdjian, Martin Kemp
Paganism in the Renaissance
Melvyn Bragg discusses paganism in the Renaissance and the return of classical pagan thought to Italy and then to the rest of Europe in the 15th century.
16 June 2005
Also featuring: Thomas Healy, Charles Hope
Machiavelli and the Italian City States
Melvyn Bragg discusses the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli. Inspired by the model of Cesare Borgia, he wrote a notorious manual of power still read today.
9 December 2004
Also featuring: Quentin Skinner, Lisa Jardine
The Renaissance
Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the Renaissance and whether our current perceptions about its role in cultural history stem from a 19th century historian.
8 June 2000
Also featuring: Francis Ames-Lewis, Peter Burke