A series of six programmes 2: The Lion and the Fox
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 '.
Film editor KEITH RAVEN
Producer KENNETH SHEPHEARD Series editor BRUCE NORMAN