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Medici
In 15th-century Renaissance Florence, the visionary Medici dynasty flexes its power in politics and the arts, risking its rivals' lethal opposition.
- 2016-2019
- 3 seasons
- Netflix
- Documentary, Drama, Suspense
- TV-14
In 15th-century Renaissance Florence, the visionary Medici dynasty flexes its power in politics and the arts, risking its rivals' lethal opposition.
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Cast & Crew
Season 3 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Survival
Fri, May 1, 2020 51 mins
Pope Sixtus IV, instigated by his ambitious, warlike cousin Girolamo Riario , has an army ready to invade Florence, where moral is shattered by collective excommunication, which the Tuscan bishops dare not overrule. Lorenzo refuses to go beg in Rome for peace and papal absolution, fearing imprisonment, but enables a crucial prisoner exchange by releasing cardinal-nepote Raffaele, yet when Carlo de' Medici is released form papal jail, horsemen murder him on the way home. Meanwhile Lorenzo relaxes his initial doubts about the boy being accepted by his female household kin as Giulio, bastard of the late Giuliano who escaped by clerical help the murder of his mother by Riario's henchmen. Little notice is taken of Florentine 'prophet' Savonarola, while pious charity declines and misery mounts.
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1:30Medici: Masters Of Florence
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Awards
- 2016 - Capri TV Series Award - Winner
- 2018 - La Chioma di Berenice - Best Makeup in Fiction - Winner
- 2018 - La Chioma di Berenice - Best Production Design in Fiction - Winner
- 2018 - La Chioma di Berenice - Best Costumes in Fiction - Nominated
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