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Girolamo Riario

Girolamo Riario

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Sep 9, 2026

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Age of the Condottieri A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530-Oscar Browning

Sep 9 · 21 Mentions

Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
22:10
The first was a violent tyrant without scruples and without shame.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
22:15
His nephews, the Riario, exhibited an abandonment of dissoluteness which could afterwards scarcely be improved upon by Cesare Borgia.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
22:24
Sixtus IV is believed to have formed the conspiracy of the Pazzi in order to obtain the money of the Medici.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
22:32
In politics he was a faithless traitor.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
23:34
He married his son to the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, and made her brother cardinal at the age of fourteen.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
23:41
His sons and nephews openly led the most scandalous lives.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
23:46
Franceschetto Cibo lost fourteen thousand florins one night gambling with the cardinal Riario.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
23:53
False bulls were sold and indulgences to secure pardon to assassins.
Remember That Time: An Historical Podcast

Remember That Time: An Historical Podcast

Caterina Sforza

Sep 7 · 1 Mention

Amanda WebbHOST
8:04
Yeah, exactly.
Anna WebbHOST
8:06
So in 1473, when Caterina is 10 years old, she is betrothed to Girolamo Riario, who-
Amanda WebbHOST
8:18
Okay
Anna WebbHOST
8:18
... is the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV.

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