In Part I of their first episode, Jamie and Sofia discuss the very sparkly 1999 film Ever After: A Cinderella Story. Join them to learn new and exciting things about Leonardo da Vinci, codpieces, and selling servants to pay debts. 

Sources:

Ever After. IMDB.

Susannah Grant, "Success Feels Better, But It Doesn't Necessarily Make You Better," Medium. 

Leonardo da Vinci:

Mona Lisa, The Met. 

Mona Lisa, The Louvre.

The Codex Atlanticus.

"Flying Machine," LeonardodaVinci.net

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds. Smithsonian.

Leonardo da Vinci, Head of a Woman, The Met.

Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance. PBS.

Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life. trans. Maurice Baring, 1906.

Jonathan Jones, "And the Winner Is," The Guardian.

"The Other Vitruvian Man," Smithsonian Magazine. 

Codpieces:

Grace Q. Vicary, “Visual Art as Social Data: The Renaissance Codpiece,” Cultural Anthropology 4, 1 (February 1989) pp. 3-25.

“What Goes Up Must Come Down: A Brief History of the Codpiece.”

Selling People to Pay Debts:

Henry Heller, "Bodin on Slavery and Primitive Accumulation," The Sixteenth-Century Journal

Robert Kalas, "Noble Widows and Estate Management during the French Wars of Religion"

Hoffman, "The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France"