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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  2 дні тому +47

    Watch episode 1 of the Unholy Roman Emperor Frederick II right now on Nebula! go.nebula.tv/extrahistory
    Thanks for Watching!

    • @danielsantiagourtado3430
      @danielsantiagourtado3430 18 годин тому +5

      Looking forward to it on YT! Love your content guys! You're the Best ❤❤❤❤❤

    • @also_arles
      @also_arles 18 годин тому +4

      As always, wonderful video, but the opening of this video hurts my soul....all that pretty art lost to flames. Noooo....😔

    • @GrantGraff
      @GrantGraff 18 годин тому +3

      That cover picture is fire 🔥🔥🔥

    • @Dahaka-rd6tw
      @Dahaka-rd6tw 17 годин тому +1

      Can you do 'The Book of the Dun Cow'?

    • @TheRagingGager2.0
      @TheRagingGager2.0 11 годин тому

      I actually saw the entire first episode of The Unholy Frederick II and already I can see some mistakes at play, when you mentioned Frederick II's father had captured Richard the Lionheart one thing you said was after the "2nd" crusade which is completely wrong because following the Saladin and the 3rd crusade that's where Richard was involved in and when showing Frederick II eating Otto's banquet meals you accidentally had Otto's name replaced with "FII" as watching that shifting moment from Otto's shocked face to Frederick's eating of his banquet meal. So either this will be known in Lies or fixed when the UA-cam video of it comes out.

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 18 годин тому +601

    The bonfire of the vanities always upsets me. Imagine all the art that would still be with us to this day if it all wasn’t burnt in flames.

    • @King_Nex
      @King_Nex 17 годин тому +21

      I kinda like it: it's sometimes important to have a realignment of culture so people don't go too far into vulgarity. Like, imagine a modern day version where we burned CP or something.

    • @Nightmare704RY
      @Nightmare704RY 17 годин тому +22

      ​@@King_Nex CP?

    • @smithblack5945
      @smithblack5945 17 годин тому +68

      ​@@King_Nex I'm guessing most of the stuff they burned had nothing to do with CP

    • @King_Nex
      @King_Nex 17 годин тому +3

      @smithblack5945 I'm saying a modern day version of the bonfire would since we wouldn't tolerate it much as those people weren't tolerating naked art.

    • @TheVelvetTV_Riesenglied
      @TheVelvetTV_Riesenglied 17 годин тому +27

      enjoy the art we have now, nothing is exempt from destruction, everything is fleeting and temporary

  • @GallowglassVT
    @GallowglassVT 18 годин тому +250

    Super excited for Frederick "stop forcing me to be competent, I just wanna compose poetry and go hawking in Sicily" II, Holy Roman Emperor.

    • @RagonXE
      @RagonXE 17 годин тому +13

      Man, don't we all...

  • @lillylee122619
    @lillylee122619 День тому +368

    The Mad Monk of Florence title sounds like some crazed super villain 😂😂😂

    • @munkSWE88
      @munkSWE88 18 годин тому +27

      He was the main villain in a Assassins Creed 2 DLC

    • @CODDE117
      @CODDE117 18 годин тому +10

      Wasn't he?

    • @Emperor_Oshron
      @Emperor_Oshron 18 годин тому +8

      presumably no relation to a certain other Mad Monk from a few centuries later ;)

    • @PrimeDirective91
      @PrimeDirective91 17 годин тому +11

      Gonna add, mad monk of Florence sounds like a metal band name.

  • @telemarkaeology
    @telemarkaeology 17 годин тому +145

    When people start burning art, you know they're the Bad Guys.

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea 14 годин тому +14

      Or books

    • @vegladex
      @vegladex 10 годин тому +10

      @@barbiquearea Books are art too.

    • @nooneofimportance2110
      @nooneofimportance2110 8 годин тому

      Funny how it keeps happening😒. Ever notice nobody does anything about until they start burning people🤔?

  • @ScarletRebel96
    @ScarletRebel96 18 годин тому +144

    0:09
    NOOOOO HOW COULD THEY?!! THAT ZOEY PAINTING IS A PRICELESS ANTIQUE!!!!

    • @Andy-js5jy
      @Andy-js5jy 17 годин тому

      Because they used religions anti-culture, but they are obsessed with power on world as he want dystopia world.
      Now they are died as world hate them and culture hate them too.
      However, future still worried as maybe new dictatorship or something horrible for destroyed culture again as repeat past.

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek 17 годин тому +10

      The heresy!!! 😫

    • @youtubeaccountfr
      @youtubeaccountfr 12 годин тому

      @@ArkadiBolschekit’s not 1198 anymore gramps

  • @old_tech3269
    @old_tech3269 17 годин тому +96

    8:55 ah yes the best way to handle a trial by fire, argue until god decides you’re both too chicken and just douses the fire so you will leave

  • @antrjn
    @antrjn 17 годин тому +94

    The Assassin's Creed 2 DLC for this went hard and I'm tired of pretending it didn't

    • @sulemanhaider1305
      @sulemanhaider1305 7 годин тому +3

      That speech at the end still brings me to tears

  • @wolfhunt8400
    @wolfhunt8400 18 годин тому +154

    Honestly, my favorite part of your videos are the horses. Their so derpy and cute it's amazing. Oh, and good work on pointing out that it's pretty hard to say The Mad Monk was doing it out of religious zeal when the moment Florence was without a leader, he took political power instead of continuing to worship god.

    • @kokuinomusume
      @kokuinomusume 14 годин тому +3

      The shadows are amazing, though. There's some Mike Mignola-ish coloring up there and I absolutely love it.

    • @MorgottofLeyendell
      @MorgottofLeyendell 14 годин тому +5

      He proved that he was less devoted to God and more devoted to his own ideals.

    • @relaxedsack1263
      @relaxedsack1263 9 годин тому

      @MorgottofLeyendell Most super religious people just use god as a way to justify their own thoughts.

  • @alexdoloress2180
    @alexdoloress2180 17 годин тому +33

    I played the Ezio Collection and never realized Bonfire of Vanities was an AC II dlc 😅
    Joke aside this event taught us that our freedom come for our ability to think by ourselve and not just following other peoples' vision .

  • @CosmosJack
    @CosmosJack 16 годин тому +55

    3:45 "We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant." - Karl Popper

    • @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901
      @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 11 годин тому +1

      Get to the part where he says this makes one intolerant, and so we should not do it

    • @jesusisballin
      @jesusisballin 7 годин тому +3

      @@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Karl Popper does say we should do this. That's the whole point of the paradox of tolerance. A tolerant society *must* intolerate intolerance.

    • @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901
      @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Годину тому

      @@jesusisballin you haven't read "the open society and its enemies"

  • @bananapanda9805
    @bananapanda9805 18 годин тому +59

    Love the fact you mentioned that people tend to exaggerate/embellish/etc. on what may/could/etc. have happened just to make it more dramatic.
    Alas!! *sigh* it doth be true! We do like exciting stories, thus why this channel exists!

  • @Cheshire1501
    @Cheshire1501 18 годин тому +92

    3:59 ahh. The paradox of tolerance in action. A lesson that we still have to learn

    • @abcdef27669
      @abcdef27669 17 годин тому +10

      Lorenzo couldn't do much about it, anyway. If he eliminated or exiled Savonarola, the monk could have become a martyr.

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 16 годин тому +4

      Within a few years the public got sick of his nonsense

    • @s_t_r_a_y_e_d
      @s_t_r_a_y_e_d 14 годин тому +3

      eh in this case it was lose-lose

  • @theemries4766
    @theemries4766 18 годин тому +55

    Savanarola: "The Church is vain, greedy and corrupt! This sin must be purged from the church!"
    Puritans: "Hey, I've seen this one. This one's a classic."

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 17 годин тому +13

      It was more likely the other way around, Savanarola influenced the Protestant Revolution

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 10 годин тому +1

      @@angusyang5917 Yep, and the Puritans are mostly known from the 1600's, long after the Protestant Reformation happened.

  • @Paludion
    @Paludion 17 годин тому +19

    2:29 The baby wearing a mask too is so cute and wholesome (in a way).

  • @bsaganey
    @bsaganey 17 годин тому +32

    History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes -Mark Twain

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 10 годин тому +2

      I've heard that said many times, but I have never seen anyone claim it was said by Mark Twain before.

  • @TheGohanSkywalker
    @TheGohanSkywalker 18 годин тому +50

    "We don't need anyone to tell us what to do; not Savonarola, not the Medici. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose--whatever you think is true--that makes us human...
    There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else."

    • @hatii3141
      @hatii3141 18 годин тому +2

      ❤❤❤

    • @kevinconrad6156
      @kevinconrad6156 17 годин тому +10

      You can not make your own reality, one needs to be part of society and stand on the shoulders of those before us. You don't make answers, you discover them, and teachers and books help. As do videos such as this.

  • @CliffCardi
    @CliffCardi 13 годин тому +12

    Fun: *exists*
    Savonarola: “And I took that personally.”

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 10 годин тому +2

      Okay, usually these memes annoy me, but this one was hilarious.

  • @MrTroves
    @MrTroves 18 годин тому +23

    In fairness, I can't fault the guys who stepped up for the trial by fire and asking 'Okay, how do we do this?'

  • @brandondavidson4085
    @brandondavidson4085 17 годин тому +34

    Every time I watch or listen to an Extra History video from before 1900, I am astounded by how often executions and capital punishment just used to be... a thing. Just a normal thing that you did to people you disagreed with. I can't imagine living in a world where death was the punishment for being on the wrong side of history. (I am aware as an American that we still have capital punishment, but even the majority of Death Row inmates are never executed and hopefully it will be abolished with time)

    • @MonoVideo93
      @MonoVideo93 16 годин тому +4

      I would say it was more common to go to the gallows then end up behind bars. For high profile cases

    • @fillosof66689
      @fillosof66689 13 годин тому +1

      Non peaceful death and injury were in general lurking much closer to the people who lived in those times. Which can be what shaped the general acceptance of those things as justified consequence of many transgressions, or just bad luck and losing in certain endeavours.
      If half your children were likely to not see their adulthood, why would you care that your rulers murdered one another in their squabbles for power?

    • @brandondavidson4085
      @brandondavidson4085 13 годин тому +2

      @@fillosof66689 that's the thing, rulers were also murdering innocent bystanders all the time. The whole point of the inquisition is that Catholic leaders were torturing false confessions out of Jews and Muslim, even some early Protestants, and killing them based on those confessions or even just the testimony of their neighbors

  • @alexjaeger3033
    @alexjaeger3033 16 годин тому +11

    I feel like this is the sign that we will soon have a series on the Borgia.

    • @RorikH
      @RorikH 9 годин тому +1

      If you haven't seen it, Overly Sarcastic Productions has a series called "Pope Fights" you might be interested in.

  • @VioletSchoff
    @VioletSchoff 15 годин тому +6

    I love that you guys are doing videos on the Renaissance! I would love to see a video solely focused on carnival and masqurade balls!

  • @briannamcdaniel266
    @briannamcdaniel266 18 годин тому +12

    This was an absolutely amazing video Extra History!

  • @FakeBlocks
    @FakeBlocks 17 годин тому +25

    Please do the 1821 Greek Revolutionary War against the Ottoman Empire next! I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the Sengoku Jidai!

  • @BigRibRon
    @BigRibRon 18 годин тому +28

    do a series on the fourth crusade and restoration

  • @b.sylphaen
    @b.sylphaen 17 годин тому +8

    There is a marking on the floor in Piazza della Signoria in Florence where Savonarola was burned.

  • @Dawnchaser115
    @Dawnchaser115 16 годин тому +6

    I just read about this incident in a historical fiction novel! Florentine history is fascinating.

  • @martin.jmorgan
    @martin.jmorgan 17 годин тому +10

    8:43 I love Extra History's depiction of God, just an ancient entity gaming

  • @Crashwombt
    @Crashwombt 18 годин тому +8

    This series is almost like a video game plot.
    CONTINUES TO PLAY A GAME WITH A HOODED MAN

  • @or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS
    @or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS 18 годин тому +24

    anybody here saw the once upon a time... man leonardo da vinci episode where they mention that leonardo made a drawing of one of the hang mans from this Conspiracy

  • @KroiAlbanoiArbanon
    @KroiAlbanoiArbanon 15 годин тому +5

    The mad monk of florence is the most iconic title ever.

  • @MrLuchenkov
    @MrLuchenkov 18 годин тому +5

    The Borgias with Jeremy Irons has a few episodes shere Savanorola plays an important role and it is well worth the watch.

  • @joaoborges2167
    @joaoborges2167 16 годин тому +3

    The timing is devilish with this episode... 🔥🔥🔥

  • @thehistory_fan
    @thehistory_fan 18 годин тому +4

    Ironically I was wondering if any new Extra History videos had come out… only to refresh my page and see this at the top!
    😂

  • @ethanbrandon195
    @ethanbrandon195 16 годин тому +3

    Please do a series on Alexander VI or his son Cesare Borgia!

  • @tolontolon5538
    @tolontolon5538 14 годин тому +4

    9:28 the only interpretation around was: yo i was promised some entertainment and the rain killed it now we killin u

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 18 годин тому +8

    You guys always make saturdays awesome! Hearth please ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Real_plo_koon
    @Real_plo_koon 18 годин тому +12

    Mad monk of Florence sounds like either A a goosebumps book or B a episode of Scooby doo

    • @DarkElfDiva
      @DarkElfDiva 16 годин тому +3

      Or C like Ivan The Terrible took a vacation to Italy.

    • @leandrojavier4106
      @leandrojavier4106 13 годин тому

      Or a doctor who episode

  • @ASLTheatre
    @ASLTheatre 18 годин тому +9

    I know Assassins Creed is largely fictional but I am seeing any characters that occurred in Assassins Creed 2. Mainly how the religious leaders had much sway over the people.

  • @100lovenana
    @100lovenana 18 годин тому +3

    How funny that only in this episode I've seen you representing a tower of irony during tbe naration, because history is just FILLED with irony and so many of your previous episodes have examples of it

  • @abcdef27669
    @abcdef27669 18 годин тому +3

    Be a strict religious figure in Medieval ages, without sounding like Ruhollah Khomeini, and without appearing like the Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars: Impossible challenge.

  • @bthsr7113
    @bthsr7113 18 годин тому +19

    Ah yes, one of history's major "no fun allowed" chapters. Always hate these killjoys.

    • @Toonrick12
      @Toonrick12 18 годин тому +4

      I hate how we're about to enter another one of those chapters, again.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 17 годин тому +2

      @@Toonrick12 Not how I'd describe the impending United States of Hell.

    • @Elizabeth-tq7qw
      @Elizabeth-tq7qw 17 годин тому +8

      And the majority never learn not to give power to the “no fun allowed” High Sparrow types.

    • @DeadMech1
      @DeadMech1 13 годин тому

      At least that chapter had a happy ending.

  • @Pikashockdragon
    @Pikashockdragon 15 годин тому +1

    9:19
    Matt: *Breaks the 4th Wall*
    Both combatants: -.- really?
    Matt: ^.^ Sorry, couldn't resist!

  • @PaleTrinity
    @PaleTrinity 5 годин тому +2

    10:14 To quote Randy Feltface: *Karma*

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 18 годин тому +2

    Love your content guys! You're the Best 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

  • @everett6072
    @everett6072 14 годин тому +1

    Classic story of empowering an enemy because they hate someone else more only to have them eventually turn on you. Classic!

  • @ElijahR2023
    @ElijahR2023 17 годин тому +1

    Can you guys do a full series on the Napoleonic Wars? That would be great!

  • @matthewedwards5098
    @matthewedwards5098 11 годин тому +1

    I think it would be a great idea to do a series on the Reformation both the Protestant and Counter-Reformation

  • @stonewolfuwu8035
    @stonewolfuwu8035 18 годин тому +1

    Awesome job guys!

  • @ArkadiBolschek
    @ArkadiBolschek 17 годин тому +5

    6:36 I see that the Ayatollahs didn't invent anything new...

  • @HomuralovesMadoka
    @HomuralovesMadoka 18 годин тому +1

    I’ve been waiting for this one🤫🧏‍♂️

  • @deniseeulert2503
    @deniseeulert2503 9 годин тому

    Thhis is such a great episode.

  • @RobertJW
    @RobertJW 14 годин тому

    I've watched The Getaway!
    I think I'll go watch it again. I loved that show.

  • @CosmosJack
    @CosmosJack 16 годин тому +2

    3:50 This reminds me of Germany sending Lenin to Russia during WW1, which in the long run burned Germany down with Russia.

  • @maxdon2001
    @maxdon2001 12 годин тому

    Great video!

  • @HarvestStore
    @HarvestStore 9 годин тому

    Great video.

  • @TerrestrialExtraTerrestrial
    @TerrestrialExtraTerrestrial 16 годин тому

    I look forward to these episodes like little treats for surviving The Intervals

  • @DeadRepublic
    @DeadRepublic 17 годин тому +4

    7:56 So burning man has been around a lot longer than we thought huh?

  • @gamebawesome
    @gamebawesome 17 годин тому +9

    I'm guessing Savonarola is who GRRM based the High Sparrow in ASOIF/GoT on.

  • @danieljameswestman3484
    @danieljameswestman3484 14 годин тому +1

    This is the unknown inspiration behind the novel, and the TV show the handmaid's tale.

  • @AtlasNovack
    @AtlasNovack 17 годин тому +2

    0:09 Zoey no 😭

  • @calvinyahn2840
    @calvinyahn2840 16 годин тому +2

    It does feel a bit like one of the revolutions from later years except that the revolutionary is also religious(instead of a cult of the divine being or "religion is the opiate of the people".

  • @killingragethrowback
    @killingragethrowback 9 годин тому

    Savonarola sounds like he stirred up dissent against the current order just for power. RIse to power on a bonfire, die on a bonfire sounds poetic.

  • @Ena-t5v
    @Ena-t5v 18 годин тому

    I literally just finished the rest of this series!

  • @ShanRenxin
    @ShanRenxin 13 годин тому +1

    Those who burn books, burn people.
    Admittedly, sometimes it's themselves after a rival challenges them to jump in a fire, but then an underling who offered to do it in their stead argued with the challenger for so long that God got bored and rained on the flames, prompting the crowd to get angry, the book burners get arrested, and then burned as punishment. But that doesn't roll off the tongue as easily.

  • @theWarguy-qj4ur
    @theWarguy-qj4ur 14 годин тому +1

    who guys should to a series on the red baron

  • @EyalBrown
    @EyalBrown 7 годин тому

    "Hm, we're doing an episode with a lot of fire... Is David available?"

  • @zekelogy
    @zekelogy 15 годин тому

    WONDERFULLLLL🎉

  • @also_arles
    @also_arles 18 годин тому +2

    Anyone else see the Walpole lookalike around the 8:30 mark?

  • @SirMarshalHaig
    @SirMarshalHaig 17 годин тому +1

    "...and it is this conscience that guides us to rate EC-10, for emotional content, all those things that might tempt us to feel, again, and destroy them"
    Padre

  • @roboticintelligenceunit1a652
    @roboticintelligenceunit1a652 16 годин тому

    I AINT INSANE, I SAW THE ROMAN EPISODE UP TODAY EARLIER I SAID “well I’ll see it later!” AND NOW IT’S GONE AND THIS IS HERE!

  • @goofygoober1816
    @goofygoober1816 14 годин тому +2

    bro imagine being named "The Unfortunate"

  • @wolfhunt8400
    @wolfhunt8400 18 годин тому +2

    45 seconds in. never been this early

  • @arifsheikh6599
    @arifsheikh6599 13 годин тому +2

    So basically Renaissance Afghanistan?

  • @RPGArchangel
    @RPGArchangel 9 годин тому

    "Choose your own way. Don't follow me or anyone else" still it’s hard.

  • @jankusthegreat9233
    @jankusthegreat9233 18 годин тому +3

    Not the cat painting

  • @michaeljebbett160
    @michaeljebbett160 13 годин тому +1

    Burning art certain people don't like seems to be a disturbingly common practice

  • @clarenceonyekwere5428
    @clarenceonyekwere5428 17 годин тому +2

    An episode on the Yoruba warring era would be nice

  • @maxteraform
    @maxteraform 11 годин тому

    So are you going to cover the Borgia next? And the Ottoman civil war?

  • @EfrainMan
    @EfrainMan День тому +27

    Religious Zealotry, not even once.

  • @floricel_112
    @floricel_112 16 годин тому +3

    now you see, *I* would have interpreted the rain as God telling them "please don't set yourselves on fire or throw yourselves into a literal pyre. Neither of you can perform miracles They have to come from me. Both of you are blaspheming. Let it go""

  • @l.b8896
    @l.b8896 8 годин тому

    0:02 immediate Brotherhood back flashes.

  • @kageris6
    @kageris6 18 годин тому

    Was that theme in the beginning from Actraiser or something? It sounded very familiar.

  • @CODDE117
    @CODDE117 18 годин тому

    Extra Sci Art! YEEESSSSS

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 16 годин тому

    Imagine if they had today's fireproof stunt clothes

  • @CirBam24
    @CirBam24 17 годин тому

    "Vanities of vanities, all is vanity!"

  • @placeholderdoe
    @placeholderdoe 17 годин тому +1

    Bro was openly wearing Sith robes talking about “righteousness”

  • @22espec
    @22espec 17 годин тому

    I hope Ho Chi Min gets a chapter in the future

  • @Erik-u3o8t
    @Erik-u3o8t 16 годин тому

    Do a video on the California fires

  • @MapaloNgosa-fk3mq
    @MapaloNgosa-fk3mq 13 годин тому

    It all went up in flames 😅

  • @davidduarte31
    @davidduarte31 13 годин тому

    Is it wrong to think there are some parallels between this and the day disco died at that baseball game in Detroit?

  • @Pillzpop
    @Pillzpop 18 годин тому +3

    Somebody summon Ezio!

  • @bipu1
    @bipu1 18 годин тому

    all of these names and titles sound like a whole d&d campaign

  • @SheepsaretheGOAT
    @SheepsaretheGOAT 9 годин тому

    You should cover the indo-chinese war of 1962

  • @sourabhmayekar3354
    @sourabhmayekar3354 10 годин тому

    Nice

  • @ethanpatel3622
    @ethanpatel3622 6 годин тому

    Yeah he went mad with power even though he did some good. God definitely did the right thing here. 9:37

  • @uriabinenshtok
    @uriabinenshtok 18 годин тому +1

    4:46 because the north is the way to get to italy

  • @jamcdonald120
    @jamcdonald120 2 години тому

    10:30 Freddie! Nothing like a triple excumunicant and antichrist to make a series good!

  • @powerist209
    @powerist209 4 години тому

    Part of me want to compare how Martin Luther (the preacher and protestant founder) managed to gain appeal compared to Savonarola aside from not being as hardline in morality (even winning Secular appeal like lack of celibacy for clergy and local languages for mass appeal), and being in Germany (so too distant for Papal authority and creating proper local base) despite him forming his own religious movement along with John Calvin.

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 17 годин тому +1

    Wuthering Waves's Rinascita region anyone?