Episode 184
184 - Julius II: Warrior pope rising (1503 - 1508)
A History of Italy · Mike Corradi
February 11, 202520m 10s
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Show Notes
Giuliano della Rovere, after trying for more than a decade, finally manages to become pope Julius II in 1503. He gets to work breaking the last resistance of Cesare Borgia, then has to sort out his Papal States, gobbled up by Venice in the north with a whole series of local lords taking back power.
In all of this, the pope calls in a special decorator to do some touch up work in the Sistine chapel, a certain Michelangelo Buonarroti.
In the sketch we imagine the conversation between the two.