By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici. They had been the patrons of genius and cultural icons, but the family was more interested in waging war ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's ... As well as producing four popes, members of the House of Medici married into various European royal families.

Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after ...