Movie: The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

Top 8 Billed Cast

Massimo Marinoni
Massimo Marinoni

Narrator

Peter Guinness
Peter Guinness

Galileo

Ian Bustard
Ian Bustard

Giovanni de'Medici

Niccolo Cioni
Niccolo Cioni

Giulio de'Medici

Ben De Saumserez
Ben De Saumserez

Cosimo de'Medici

James Innes-Smith
James Innes-Smith

Lorenzo de'Medici

Federico Stefanelli
Federico Stefanelli

Ferdinando de'Medici

Pip Torrens
Pip Torrens

Cosimo de'Medici

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    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.

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    2004-02-04

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