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 ...

Catherine de Medici was born an Italian noblewoman on April 13, 1519 in Florence to father Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Duke of Urbino and mother Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne, who had ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine ...

Contrary to the overly dramatic storyline of the TV biopic “The Serpent Queen” on Starz, Catherine de’ Medici wasn’t really that bad as queen and later queen mother in 16th-century France.

That really says it all,” says historian Estelle Paranque, author of the forthcoming book Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. “A snake is someone that will ...

For Lorenzo as for his grandfather Cosimo I de’ Medici—who poured the ... his flair for ostentation from his Medici great-grandmother, Catherine. Dispatched to France at age 14 to marry ...

Why did Starz turn away from the British Tudors and to the world of French Queen Catherine de Medici for their new series “The Serpent Queen”? “Sometimes it’s because somebody’s so bad ...

With a seamless blend of historical drama and creative passion, Morton speaks with Kyle Meredith on how portraying Catherine de' Medici has been an education in power dynamics, love, and fear.

Starz‘s new costume drama The Serpent Queen introduces its thorniest historic heroine yet: Catherine de’ Medici. Orphaned young in life and abandoned for years in a convent, Catherine de ...