Borgia Their name has become a byword for murder and incest, making the Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life during the Renaissance. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family ...

Vasari recorded the lives of artists and the contribution of the Medici, in a precursor of today's PR. Machiavelli, the Godfather of Realpolitik, wrote the first modern manual for leadership ...

From a small Italian community in 15th Century Florence, the Medici family would rise to become ... revolution in Western history – the Renaissance. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Galileo ...

From a small Italian community in 15thcentury Florence the Medici family would rise to rule ... revolution in Western history the European Renaissance But the forces of change the Medici helped ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the most influential artists in world history. Matt Elton explores the creator ...

They also commissioned such Renaissance masterpieces as Birth ... city views once reserved for the Grand Dukes of the Medici family. The renovations also modernized the corridor’s structure ...

The Medici family has determined the fate of Tuscany from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Power, conspiracy, intrigue, and politics underlying the ascent of the most famous bankers' family in ...