Episode 60 – Legnano
1176 – The battle between Barbarossa and the Lombard League that (may have) sealed the fate of Northern Italy and still reverberates today
Episode 59 – The City of Straw
After the last disastrous campaign, Barbarossa stays six years in Germany before he claims revenge before Alessandria, the “City of Straw”
Episode 58 – The Lombard League
Barbarossa’s tyrannical rule in Italy achieves the impossible, a Lombard League of the communes who had been at war since they were created.