MEDICI TV SERIES TV SERIES ABOUT

Medici Tv Series Tv Series About

While the story takes place, above all, in the late middle ages Florence, the series was filmed in many different locations in Toscany and Northern Lazio (the Region around Rome). The eight episodes from the season 1 were directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. The series was created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer. It’s an anglo-italian project (Lux Vide, Big Light Productions, Rai Fiction) starring Dustin Hoffman as Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici, Richard Madden as Cosimo de’ Medici, Stuart Martin as Lorenzo de’ Medici (The Elder) and Annabel Scholey as Contessina de’ Bardi. Masters of Florence is a tv series about Medici dynasty, which takes place between 1410 (Cardinal Baldassarre Cossa’s election) and 1448 (Lorenzo the Magnificent was coinceived).

Inside the castle was finely decorated with frescoes by Antonazzo Romano and Federico and Taddeo Zuccari. Cosimo’s age): after artillery was invented (half of 15th century) the castles became shorter with sloping walls. Split across 8 episodes, the first season of this drama revolves around a growing conflict between Rinaldo Albizzi and Cosimo while depicting the rise of the Medici family.The castle was built by Orsini dynasty at the end of Middle Ages ( 1470– 1485), designed by architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini, who drew a high vertical walled fortress, a kind of project that dated back to the previous decades (i.e. Set in the heart of Florence during the early 15th Century, Medici: Masters Of Florence is a beautifully shot, engrossing historical drama. The Castle of Bracciano and the Hi-StoryEpiphany. One of the locations the director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan used the most to set a lot of florentine and roman places and palaces is the Castle Orsini Odescalchi in Bracciano.

Set in 15th century Florence amid the warring factions of the various city.The tv series is not the only connection between Bracciano (and its castle) and the Florentine Family, but stronger links come from the history.1417, about 7 years later, of when Giovanni de’ Medici and his sons helped Cardinal Baldassarre Cossa to become Pontiff. Castle Bracciano and Medici dynasty in the (real) historyBeing a fan of period drama I found the Medici series very much to my liking. To make the tv series the production had to make just minor changes to the locations. Thank to that cares today the castle is a rich museum (open to public) with many furnitures, weapons, armors and arts that dated back to Renaissance.

In the castle you can see still today the Sala di Isabella, the room where the daughter of Cosimo I lived when she was in Bracciano. Clarice gave birth to Piero the Unfortunate, who later married another Orsini, Alfonsina, who will be grandmother to Caterina de’ Medici, the queen of France.In 1558 Paolo Giordano Orsini, first Duke of Bracciano, married Isabella de’ Medici, daughter of Cosimo I, the first Grand Duke of Toscany, a descendant of Lorenzo the Elder, aka Stuart Martin).