The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
From a small Italian community in 15th Century Florence, the Medici family would rise to become one of the most powerful dynasties in Europe. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would use this power to help ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history – the Renaissance. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Galileo – all received Medici patronage. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Birth of a Dynasty
11-02-200455mAfter centuries in which the Catholic Church has controlled thought and ideas, one city at the heart of fifteenth century Europe is poised on the threshold of an intellectual and a...
- Ep 2
2.The Magnificent Medici
11-02-200455mWithstanding attacks from bitter enemies, including the Pope, Cosimo’s young grandson Lorenzo becomes a driving force of the Renaissance. When his beloved brother is assassinated,...
- Ep 3
3.The Medici Popes
18-02-200455mBy 1512 Giovanni de’ Medici — although exiled from Florence — has become the most senior cardinal at the Vatican. With the power of the Papacy behind him, he returns to the city, s...
- Ep 4
4.Power vs Truth
18-02-200455mAfter years of chaos, another Cosimo de’ Medici, a distant country relative of the original Medici line, is named Duke of Florence by the city’s council. But this Cosimo quickly a...
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