The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented power. They would also ignite the most important cultural and artistic revolution in Western history -- the European Renaissance. But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash would one day topple their ordered world.

Director: Justin Hardy

Cast

Massimo Marinoni

Narrator

Peter Guinness

Galileo

I

Ian Bustard

Giovanni de'Medici

N

Niccolo Cioni

Giulio de'Medici

B

Ben De Saumserez

Cosimo de'Medici

J

James Innes-Smith

Lorenzo de'Medici

F

Federico Stefanelli

Ferdinando de'Medici

Pip Torrens

Cosimo de'Medici