Frank Spotnitz isn’t a fan of historical drama, but it’s rapidly becoming a fan of his. The first season of Netflix’s Medici, subtitled Masters Of Florence, went gangbusters in its native Italy.

On April 8, 1492, the de facto ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici — “Il Magnifico,” the model for Machiavelli’s prince, the patron of Botticelli, da Vinci and Michelangelo and the “needle of Italy’s ...

Unimpressed with the celebratory legend, British scholar Hollingsworth (The Borgias) builds on her previous work regarding the Italian Renaissance to show how the ambitious Medici family moved beyond ...

Medici: The Magnificent (or Medici season two) on Netflix has as its final centrepiece the Pazzi conspiracy. The Pazzi conspiracy was a real-life historical event, which saw the Pazzi family try to ...

In the summer of 1772, Queen Charlotte of England, wife of King George III, ordered Johann Zoffany (1733?1810), a German-born British painter, to paint the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, ...