This is excellent stuff, you get pronunciations right that I hear history UA-camrs with 100,000 times the subscribers and (I'm guessing) at least twice your age struggle with.
My family is from Pontelandolfo, Italy. Supposedly the town's name means Bridge of Landolfo, so commemorate when he was greatly outnumbered by invading Roman forces but they fought long enough for the women and children to escape. Could this story be related to any of the Landulfs in your video?
I look forward to your video on Prince Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Peregord, last Prince of Benevento. Though he was a French aristocrat who never visited Benevento, Talleyrand had been a moderate-reformer participant in the French Revolution, having been an unwilling priest and a worldly Bishop but a very good economist and politician, who proposed that Church property be nationalised to pay the national debt. For this he was excommunicated by the Pope, but it didn't bother him as he had already resigned his post a Bishop to live like a layman politician. After 4 years exile in England and the USA to keep from being guillotined by the Reign of Terror (he was an aristocrat) he returned as Foreign Minister to the Directoire, and then Napoleon, who in 1806 made Talleyrand Prince of Benevento. Benevento had been a Papal fief, and Napoleon's sense of humour enjoyed annoying the Pope by putting an apostate Bishop as reigning sovereign over what had been the Pope's lands. Prince Talleyrand was too busy in France to ever visit Benevento, but he engaged an honest and hard-working (German) business manager, and instituted several reforms he had urged during the French Revolution: universal education (in French) and lowerered taxes to strengthen the economy; and he protected Bénévent (as the French called it) from military conscription. Apparently Talleyrand reinvested some of the income he received from Bénévent into improving and upgrading infrastructure, notably water and sewers. Though the fall of Napoleon saw Talleyrand removed as sovereign, he was quite popular with the inhabitants of Bénévent for his enlightened economic and legal reforms. I would like to know more about these, as apparently Talleyrand, reviled by historians who see him as merely a cynically venal opportunist, was equally and sincerely dedicated to peace and economic stability in Europe, and wanted to use his political power in Benevento to build an example of a properly-run country under an enlightened, constitutional monarch. Prince de Talleyrand, a good administrator who understood economics and finance, rewarded merit and hard work when he found it; though he was known and often feared as an inscrutable, pragmatic diplomat with allegiance to no ideology. However he had a strongly paternalistic streak of family loyalty, and this extended to any over whom he had authority; if he saw loyalty and goodwill from them, was loyal and protective of those under his care. This was true of his staff at the French Foreign Office, and of his domestic staff and retainers at his vast estate of Chateau Valençay. There is much in his enlightened policies in Benevento to suggest that had his reign / regime lasted longer, Benevento might have become outstandingly prosperous and its people betterl-educated, with a higher standard of living that its neighbouring countries.
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This is excellent stuff, you get pronunciations right that I hear history UA-camrs with 100,000 times the subscribers and (I'm guessing) at least twice your age struggle with.
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My family is from Pontelandolfo, Italy. Supposedly the town's name means Bridge of Landolfo, so commemorate when he was greatly outnumbered by invading Roman forces but they fought long enough for the women and children to escape. Could this story be related to any of the Landulfs in your video?
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I look forward to your video on Prince Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Peregord, last Prince of Benevento.
Though he was a French aristocrat who never visited Benevento, Talleyrand had been a moderate-reformer participant in the French Revolution, having been an unwilling priest and a worldly Bishop but a very good economist and politician, who proposed that Church property be nationalised to pay the national debt. For this he was excommunicated by the Pope, but it didn't bother him as he had already resigned his post a Bishop to live like a layman politician.
After 4 years exile in England and the USA to keep from being guillotined by the Reign of Terror (he was an aristocrat) he returned as Foreign Minister to the Directoire, and then Napoleon, who in 1806 made Talleyrand Prince of Benevento.
Benevento had been a Papal fief, and Napoleon's sense of humour enjoyed annoying the Pope by putting an apostate Bishop as reigning sovereign over what had been the Pope's lands.
Prince Talleyrand was too busy in France to ever visit Benevento, but he engaged an honest and hard-working (German) business manager, and instituted several reforms he had urged during the French Revolution: universal education (in French) and lowerered taxes to strengthen the economy; and he protected Bénévent (as the French called it) from military conscription.
Apparently Talleyrand reinvested some of the income he received from Bénévent into improving and upgrading infrastructure, notably water and sewers.
Though the fall of Napoleon saw Talleyrand removed as sovereign, he was quite popular with the inhabitants of Bénévent for his enlightened economic and legal reforms. I would like to know more about these, as apparently Talleyrand, reviled by historians who see him as merely a cynically venal opportunist, was equally and sincerely dedicated to peace and economic stability in Europe, and wanted to use his political power in Benevento to build an example of a properly-run country under an enlightened, constitutional monarch.
Prince de Talleyrand, a good administrator who understood economics and finance, rewarded merit and hard work when he found it; though he was known and often feared as an inscrutable, pragmatic diplomat with allegiance to no ideology.
However he had a strongly paternalistic streak of family loyalty, and this extended to any over whom he had authority; if he saw loyalty and goodwill from them, was loyal and protective of those under his care. This was true of his staff at the French Foreign Office, and of his domestic staff and retainers at his vast estate of Chateau Valençay. There is much in his enlightened policies in Benevento to suggest that had his reign / regime lasted longer, Benevento might have become outstandingly prosperous and its people betterl-educated, with a higher standard of living that its neighbouring countries.
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