Characters

Protagonists and actors in the documents that have made history.

Frederick Barbarossa
against the Italian communes

The election of Urban VI and the beginning of the Western Schism (1378-1379)

The beautiful troubled Empress

The concubine’s brother

Albornoz: the condottiere cardinal

«A confirmed, tenacious and stubborn heretic»: Giordano Bruno

The dismal case of “Henry the Unthrifty”

For the Catholic faith and for Poland: Jan Sobieski, king of Poland

The Swiss Guards in the service of the successors of Saint Peter

Thomas Wolsey and His Majesty’s secret matter

Napoleon Bonaparte
and Pius VII

Abraham Lincoln

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Boniface VIII

Marie Antoinette