Frank Spotnitz isn’t a fan of historical drama, but it’s rapidly becoming a fan of his. The first season of Netflix’s Medici, subtitled Masters Of Florence, went gangbusters in its native Italy.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and-white ...

Medici: The Magnificent (or Medici season two) on Netflix has as its final centrepiece the Pazzi conspiracy. The Pazzi conspiracy was a real-life historical event, which saw the Pazzi family try to ...

Donatella Lippi calls it a "terrible problem". She and other researchers who have spent the past 10 months prising open the tombs of one of Europe's most illustrious families, the Medicis of Florence, ...

April 13 marks what would have been the 500th birthday of Catherine de' Medici. As well as producing queens and popes, the Medici family unscrupulously managed the wealth of Western Europe for ...

Contrary to the overly dramatic storyline of the TV biopic “The Serpent Queen” on Starz, Catherine de’ Medici wasn’t really that bad as queen and later queen mother in 16th-century France. In fact, ...