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The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee, Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici, during the first half of the 15th century.
Medici is a TV series that follows the rise and fall of the Medici family, a powerful banking and political clan in Renaissance Florence. The series spans three seasons and covers the lives of Cosimo, Lorenzo, Lucrezia and other characters, as they face challenges, conspiracies and betrayals.
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- 2016-12-09
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Nov 9, 2009 · Learn about the Medici family, the influential bankers and rulers who shaped Florence and Europe in the Renaissance. Discover their achievements, patronage, scandals and legacy through the centuries.
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Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals. It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe.
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Medici ( Italian: I Medici) is a historical drama television series created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer. The series was produced by Italian companies Lux Vide and Rai Fiction, in collaboration with Spotnitz's Big Light Productions. The series follows the House of Medici, bankers of the Pope, in 15th-century Florence.
Lorenzo de’ Medici (born January 1, 1449, Florence [Italy]—died April 9, 1492, Careggi, near Florence) was a Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters, the most brilliant of the Medici.
Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and later Tuscany from c. 1430 to 1737. The family, noted for its often tyrannical rulers and its beneficent patrons of the arts, also provided the church with four popes ( Leo X , Clement VII , Pius IV, and Leo XI) and married into the royal families of Europe, notably in France ...
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