In episode 17, Great Great Grandad William is touring the streets of 1840s Milan. Hear about the origins of the Arena Civica amphitheatre, the dastardly cruel Galeazzo Sforza (The 5th Duke of Milan) and the scandalous but beautiful Countess Guilia Samoyloff, the talk of Milanese high society at the time.

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