Chronicle (1966)

The Lion and the Fox (1977x9)

Air date: Feb 15, 1977

The astonishing story of Renaissance Rome. John R. Hale looks at the lives of the four Popes who possessed, as Machiavelli said all rulers must, ' the strength of the Lion and the cunning of the Fox'. Men who, from 1450 to 1550, commissioned the greatest painters and architects of the Renaissance to transform Rome from a squalid market town into the 'capital of the world'.