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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

2004 1 Seasons 4 Episodes ⭐ 0.0 Documentary

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Birth of a Dynasty

After centuries in which the Catholic Church has controlled thought and ideas, one city at the heart of fifteenth centur

EP 2

The Magnificent Medici

Withstanding attacks from bitter enemies, including the Pope, Cosimo’s young grandson Lorenzo becomes a driving force

EP 3

The Medici Popes

By 1512 Giovanni de’ Medici — although exiled from Florence — has become the most senior cardinal at the Vatican.

EP 4

Power vs Truth

After years of chaos, another Cosimo de’ Medici, a distant country relative of the original Medici line, is named Duke

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