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Land Of Love

Episode number: 1

Overview: Francesco da Mosto shows how Shakespeare used Italy to tell his most passionate stories.

Land Of Fortune

Episode number: 2

Overview: Heading south to Rome, Francesco discovers how in his great Roman plays Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare used this ancient city as a smokescreen to address the most burning political issues of his day while avoiding trouble with the Elizabethan censors.