Catherine de Médicis

Short story from Renaissance period dedicated to fulfillment of duty, friendship and passing the heritable patrimony on.

Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal...

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar....

From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill,...

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate...

Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal...

Cecily is a lovely young woman, so lovely in fact people can't help but be drawn to her beauty. This becomes a problem for the naive girl once her...