And Rinaldo's rash decision to besiege the Palazzo Vecchio when ... Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope ...

And Rinaldo's rash decision to besiege the Palazzo Vecchio when he didn't get his way allowed Cosimo to ... Borgia Their name has become a byword for murder and incest, making the Borgia the most ...

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 ... artistic revolution in Western history – the Renaissance. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Galileo ...

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

This former Renaissance residence ... Other museums within the palace spotlight everything from historical fashion to household treasures once belonging to the Medici family.

named after the Renaissance architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who designed it, is some 750 meters (820 yards) long. It stretches from the Uffizi Museums to the imposing Palazzo Pitti ...