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The show recounts the Borgia family's rise to power and subsequent domination of the Papal States during the Renaissance. [1] [2] Borgia debuted in Italy on Sky Cinema 1 on 10 July 2011. It was since renewed for a second season, which premiered in France on Canal+ on 18 March 2013. [3]
Pages in category "Television series set in the Renaissance" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In The Guardian Hollie Richardson called it a "classy documentary drama series". [9] Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph praised the performance of Dance as Michelangelo, describing him as "great, bringing all the gravitas and wisdom you would expect", but questioned the decision not to have speaking parts for the actors portraying Leonardo da Vinci or Raphael. [10]
The opening theme song Renaissance was produced with the collaboration of Skin. A video clip for the song was also published the day before the series premiered in Italy. [27] The opening theme song for the second season changed. Skin and Buonvino collaborated on a variation of the original opening sequence song titled Revolution Bones.
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence. In 1373, a little more than half a century after Dante's death, the Florentine authorities softened their attitude to him and decided to establish a department for the study of the Divine Comedy.
The High Renaissance, as we call the style today, was introduced to Rome with Donato Bramante's Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio (1502) and his original centrally planned St. Peter's Basilica (1506), which was the most notable architectural commission of the era, influenced by almost all notable Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo ...
In 1926 she won the Nobel Prize for literature, becoming Italy's first and only woman recipient. [177] Sibilla Aleramo published her first novel, Una Donna (A Woman) in 1906. Today the novel is widely acknowledged as Italy's premier feminist novel. [178] Her writing mixes together autobiographical and fictional elements.