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 ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

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, “The ...

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 ...

During the Renaissance, this ancient practice began ... When Catherine de’ Medici arrived in France in 1533, she attempted to popularize fork usage. While Catherine did much to Italianize ...

...Medici. This documentary explores Sandro Botticelli and his innate ability to transfer the lights and shadows of the Renaissance Florence Medici era into his works ...

Pp. xx, 316. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $14.95 paper. ISBN: 0547844166. The life and times of a great Renaissance warrior-princess. In an era when even the most high born women played the ...

Home to a priceless collection of Renaissance art and other masterpieces ... painter Giorgio Vasari and begun in 1560 for Cosimo I de'Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. Originally built as government ...

Tom Conti stars as Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari in a story of pride, love and legacy combined with an epic journey through the art of the Renaissance. Written by Eileen Horne.

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 ...