And Catherine de'Medici, Queen of France, made sure she was informed of the intrigues at court by expressly employing a group of pretty young women to engage in pillow talk with gullible male ...

Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...

Nostradamus published a book in 1555 containing ... solicit patronage from wealthy and prominent individuals like Catherine de' Medici, the queen of France. Nostradamus' star didn't fade after ...

Fisher pinpoints a year when the dinners of the European nobility started to become rather more refined affairs—1533, the year of the wedding between the 14-year-old Catherine de’ Medici (the ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native ...

Nostradamus, a 16th-century French astrologer known as “the prophet of doom,” has a few foreboding predictions for 2024.

Pragmatic pacifists marshaled around Cosimo de'Medici. Maso degli Albizzi, patriach of his family, had two sons, Luca and Rinaldo. From a young age, Luca was friends with Cosimo de'Medici.

Grand duke Francesco I de’ Medici consequently established a workshop in 1575 dedicated to reproducing the elusive material: the Medici Porcelain Manufactory. “They tried to reverse-engineer ...

The cable network 'is not proceeding with a third season' for Justin Haythe's historical drama The Serpent Queen starring Samantha Morton as the 16th century Queen Catherine de Medici, who ruled ...

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The House of Medici came to prominence in Italy in the fifteenth century as a result of the wealth they had built up through banking. With the rise of Cosimo de' Medici, they became Florence's ...