The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history -- the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.
Cast
Massimo Marinoni
Narrator
Peter Guinness
Galileo
Ian Bustard
Giovanni de'Medici
Niccolo Cioni
Giulio de'Medici
Ben De Saumserez
Cosimo de'Medici
James Innes-Smith
Lorenzo de'Medici
Federico Stefanelli
Ferdinando de'Medici
Pip Torrens
Cosimo de'Medici
Storyline
From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history -- the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.
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