The Medici

Do any of the following interest you?

- Michelangelo

- Di Vinci

- Botticelli

- Galileo

- Brunelleschi

- Pope Leo X

- Pope Clement VII

- The Renaissance

- The Protestant Reformation

- The Sacking of Rome

- The David

- The Sistine Chapel

- Machiavelli

- The world's first Art School

- The world's first work of Art History

- The Roman Inquisition

- The world's first French Ballet

- The beginning of Opera

- The first book of popular Science

They all had one area of the world in common; Italy (not yet a unified country)

Within that country, they were all effected by one region; Tuscany.

In that one region? One city; Florence.

In that one city? One Family; the Medici - Godfathers of the Renaissance.

I found this PBS documentary totally fascinating. To think that one family, over the course of 200 years, was able to have such a profound impact on Western Civilization is astonishing.

I feel that I now have a much better understanding of the Renaissance than I did before.

If you are interested in the above, I would highly recommend this PBS series!