Netflix series - Medici: Masters of Florence

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I loved this series. Every catholic should watch this. It had no bad language and little to distract making it unusual for a Netflix series.

This period of history in the 1400’s is so interesting and complex. This series shows a great deal of how Italy was ruled by different factions, not by Kings and it depicts the renaissance with all the great artists.

Just amazing that Italy was able to hold. Shows how the protestant reform was beginning to form with Girolamo Savonarola. (England had the Hundred Years War. Spain had the moors, inquisition and Christopher Columbus.)

Granted it goes into detail about corrupt politics in electing popes but I take it with a grain of salt.
 
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Yes, a great series. This(1400’s) is a very complex century.
 
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I will check it out, thanks!

Did you watch the Borgias by chance? That one was a bit more…scandalous to say the least.
 
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Did you watch the Borgias by chance? That one was a bit more…scandalous to say the least.
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No, I tried to but it was just so corrupt, it was difficult for me to watch yet but it was at the same time in history. Borgias was a Spanish pope between the deMedici popes. The Medici series is just about one wool guild family who went into banking and helped to keep Italy solvent, just amazing.

It is a series so we know it has a lot of soap opera stuff but really helps one understand all that was going on with different fractions and papal states.
 
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Yeah…it was pretty R rated. I thought Jeremy Irons was good as Pope Alexander but the story kind of went off of the rails with its depravity.
 
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I loved this series. Every catholic should watch this. It had no bad language and little to distract making it unusual for a Netflix series.

This period of history in the 1400’s is so interesting and complex. This series shows a great deal of how Italy was ruled by different factions, not by Kings and it depicts the renaissance with all the great artists.

Just amazing that Italy was able to hold. Shows how the protestant reform was beginning to form with Girolamo Savonarola. (England had the Hundred Years War. Spain had the moors, inquisition and Christopher Columbus.)

Granted it goes into detail about corrupt politics in electing popes but I take it with a grain of salt.
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I enjoyed it immensely and having seen the first and second seasons by the time of my second visit to Florence allowed me to enjoy the trip even more. I visited the San Lorenzo Basilica, and could point out to myself, “ah, there Cosimo is buried. There’s Giovanni’s grave (di Bicci, Cosimo’s father), etc.” Of course I’m well aware that the series takes dramatic license and compresses timelines, but I’m still quite the fan. I was in the New Sacristy as well, and while I was quite drawn to the Michelangelo-designed tombs, I completely missed the relatively simple graves of Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano.

What’s probably not very realistic is that Cosimo (Richard Madden, season 1) and Lorenzo the Magnficent (Daniel Sharman seasons 2-3) were that good-looking. Busts and pictures of those two show them to be pretty plain-looking, although their power and wealth most probably enabled them to carry themselves in a manner that was still very magnetic to women.
 
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I enjoyed it immensely and having seen the first and second seasons by the time of my second visit to Florence allowed me to enjoy the trip even more. I visited the San Lorenzo Basilica, and could point out to myself, “ah, there Cosimo is buried. There’s Giovanni’s grave (di Bicci, Cosimo’s father), etc.” Of course I’m well aware that the series takes dramatic license and compresses timelines, but I’m still quite the fan. I was in the New Sacristy as well, and while I was quite drawn to the Michelangelo-designed tombs, I completely missed the relatively simple graves of Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano.

What’s probably not very realistic is that Cosimo (Richard Madden, season 1) and Lorenzo the Magnficent (Daniel Sharman seasons 2-3) were that good-looking. Busts and pictures of those two show them to be pretty plain-looking, although their power and wealth most probably enabled them to carry themselves in a manner that was still very magnetic to women.
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That is so neat when you can actually see history and relate.
 
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No, I tried to but it was just so corrupt, it was difficult for me to watc
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It is my understanding that the Borgias got a lot worse press than they deserved. Cesare was a brutal warlord, and no doubt about it. Roderigo (Pope Alexander VI) was a rake before he became Pope, but the real evidence seems to be that he was chaste after that. He was certainly a politician who aggrandized the papacy when he could. But that was the era he was in. Lucrezia is probably the most unjustly maligned of all.

After he became Pope, Alexander’s greatest fault was probably his devotion to the children he had before becoming Pope.
 
Pope Alexander VI was probably the most corrupt Popes in Church History

Not only did he father children, but had several mistresses

He was probably one of the main causes of the Reformation.
 
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Pope Alexander VI was probably the most corrupt Popes in Church History

Not only did he father children, but had several mistresses

He was probably one of the main causes of the Reformation.
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Reformation was in progress before Pope Alexander VI but simony and corruption seem to be full blown when he became pope. He was pope from 1492 to 1503 and I am sure this added much fuel to the slow fire.

This series brings up Girolamo Savonarola, a name we hear little about - Bonfire of the Vanities which we hear little about.
 
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MrZoom said:
Thanks for the tip. Added it to my watchlist.
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There are some scenes of nudity and sexuality especially in the first season. It does not rise to the level of soft porn, but custody of the eyes may still be needed.

It is much, much milder and brief in the second season, and nonexistent in the third.
 
I have it on my watch list as well. I notice there are different series in the list. Is there a order sequence to follow? Magnificent before or after Masters of Florence?

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There are 3 seasons so far.

1st -Masters of Florence - Dustin Hoffman (8 episodes)
2nd-- The Magnificent (8 episodes)-
3rd - The Magnificent Part 2 (8 episodes)
 
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MrZoom:
Thanks for the tip. Added it to my watchlist.
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There are some scenes of nudity and sexuality especially in the first season. It does not rise to the level of soft porn, but custody of the eyes may still be needed.

It is much, much milder and brief in the second season, and nonexistent in the third.
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There’s a third season? Yipee! Only seen two.

There is a fair amount of sex and violence - more of the former in the first series.

Have to say, as good as Sean Bean is the right role, I don’t think he was well cast in the second series.
 
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