The Medici: Lorenzo the Magnificent (Part 2)
The reign of history's most glamorous tyrant: Lorenzo Medici, 'The Magnificent'
Who was Lorenzo The Magnificent, the most glamorous, glittering, and blood-soaked of all the Medici, who became his family鈥檚 formidable but compulsive 鈥淕odfather鈥� from the age of only twenty one? What was the Pazzi Conspiracy, in which he was almost murdered in a bloody plot to eliminate Medici supremacy in Florence, in the middle of a church mass? Was the rise and sway of the Medici in Florence during this period the birth of mafia politics in Italy? What influence did Lorenzo have upon the Renaissance? And, what would become of the Medici, with conspirators circling, the Papacy against them, and their bank coffers draining away?
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Producer: Theo Young-Smith
Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude
Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor
