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Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life for three centuries. The House of Medici came to prominence in Italy in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and ...

The home’s original lines and mid-century features have been well-preserved as it changed ownership over the years.

Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...

Vasari recorded the lives of artists and the contribution of the Medici, in a precursor of today's PR. Machiavelli, the Godfather of Realpolitik, wrote the first modern manual for leadership, “The ...

PROVIDENCE — The conversations were innocent at first — a teenager confiding in her former teacher about her home life, the ...

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Villa Medici Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1, 00187 Rome, Italy Presenting analog and digital works from 38 artists, ...

The Serpent Queen, based on the book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda, is about the life of Catherine de’ Medici, the 16th century Queen of France. In the second ...

A political, family drama set in Florence in the early 15th century. Cosimo de'Medici finds himself at the helm of his supremly wealthy, banking dynasty family, when his father, Giovanni dies ...