The Marriage Portrait is Maggie O' Farrell's fictional interpretation of Lucrezia de Cosimo de Medici, who fights to survive her forced marriage with her abhorrent husband, Duke Alfonso II. In an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This is Cosimo de Medici. Specifically, Cosimo the first de Medici. There were quite a few Cosimos ...

“Every time I crack a skull or chase down a thief, I do it as Duke Cosimo’s right arm,” says Ercole, a 16 th -century birro, or police officer, assigned to clean up the streets of Florence under ...