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The first season of the series, titled Medici: Masters of Florence, premiered in Italy on Rai 1 on 18 October 2016. It takes place in 1429, the year Giovanni de' Medici , head of the family, died. His son Cosimo succeeds him as head of the family bank, the richest in Europe at the time, and fights to preserve his power in Florence.
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Naomi Battrick as Anne d'Etampes (season 1), one of Francis I's mistresses; Colm Meaney as Francis I (season 1) Rebecca Gethings as Queen Eleanor (season 1) Gemma Dobson as Nathalie (season 1), a kitchen servant; Antonia Clarke as Mary, Queen of Scots (season 1; guest season 2) Steve Furst as Dr. Fernel; Lee Ingleby as Henri II (season 1)
[2]: 140 [3] Many of the conspirators, as well as many people accused of being conspirators, were killed; more than thirty died on the day of the attack. [3] Most were soon caught and summarily executed. Renato de' Pazzi was lynched and hanged. Jacopo de' Pazzi, head of the family, escaped from Florence but was caught and brought back. He was ...
After Lorenzo de' Medici is saved by protagonist Ezio Auditore during the Pazzi conspiracy, Jacopo flees Florence and hides out in San Gimignano until 1480, when he is mortally wounded by the Templar grandmaster Rodrigo Borgia during a Templar meeting for his failure to dispose of the Medici. Ezio, who had followed Jacopo to the meeting, then ...
The series was shot in English in the hope of securing a North American release, which it failed to achieve, [1] and was later dubbed into Italian and shown on state television. The three television films are: Cosimo de Medici, The Power of Cosimo and Leon Battista Alberti: Humanism. It is Fred Ward's debut role.
Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo de' Medici, was the first member of the Medici family to lead the Republic of Florence and run the Medici Bank simultaneously. As one of the wealthiest men in Europe, the elder Cosimo spent a very large portion of his fortune on government and philanthropy, for example as a patron of the arts and financier of public works. [7]
Giuliano de' Medici (28 October 1453 – 26 April 1478) [1] was the second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of Florence , with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent , he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome, sporting "golden boy".