Medici: Masters of Florence (2016)

Original title

I Medici

Directed by

Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

Genre

historical drama

Country

United Kingdom, Italy

Length

3 seasons, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 327 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1429 Florence, the head of the Medici banking family dies. His son Cosimo takes over the family bank and struggles to keep his power in the city.

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What happens

Medici (Italian: I Medici) is an Italian-British historical drama television series created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer. The series was produced by Italian companies Lux Vide and Rai Fiction, in collaboration with Spotnitz's Big Light Productions. The series follows the House of Medici, bankers of the Pope, in 15th-century Florence. Each season follows the events of a particular moment of the family's history exploring the political and artistic landscape of Renaissance Italy. 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, and fights to preserve his power in Florence. The series reached between four and eight million viewers on original airings. According to Italian ratings compiler Auditel, the broadcast of the first episode attracted a record 8.04 million viewers. The second season, titled Medici: The Magnificent, takes place 35 years later and tells the story of Cosimo's grandson Lorenzo de' Medici. It premiered on Rai 1 in 2018, while a third season, which completes the story of Lorenzo, followed in 2019. The series is broadcast in 190 countries, including on Netflix in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and India, and on SBS in Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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