2. A Golden Age?

Historian and classicist Bettany Hughes continues her journey through the beauty and the blood-letting of Renaissance Florence.

Could it be that the Renaissance as we know it wasn't a renaissance at all? Could Donatello's David really be a political statement for the Medici? And what has Liverpool got to do with it?

Taking Part:

Evelyn Welsh, Professor of Religious Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College
Professor Martello Frantoni, university of Tolerno
Quentin Skinner, Regus Professor of History, Cambridge
Paul Stathern, author of "Godfathers of the Renaissance."
Jerry Brotton, author of Rennaissance Bazaar

Readings by Jonathan Keeble

Producer Philip Sellars

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.