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The Medici family came from the agricultural Mugello region north of Florence, and they are first mentioned in a document of 1230. The origin of the name is uncertain. Medici is the plural of medico, meaning "medical doctor". The dynasty began with the founding of the Medici Bank in Florence in 1397. Rise to power
Medici: Created by Nicholas Meyer, Frank Spotnitz. With Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen, Sebastian De Souza. A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century.
Nov 9, 2009 · Catherine de Medici. Piero’s son, also named Lorenzo, regained power in Florence, and his daughter Catherine de Medici (1519-1589) would become queen of France after marrying King Henry II ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Renaissance. 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 (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530). It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes ( Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families ...
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, Florentine statesman and patron of arts and letters. The grandson of Cosimo de’ Medici, he was the most brilliant of the Medici family. He ruled Florence with his younger brother, Giuliano (1453–78), from 1469 to 1478 and, after the latter’s assassination, was sole ruler from 1478 to 1492.
