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 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 ...

In a life lived across most of the 16th century, Catherine de' Medici was Queen of France, the mother of three kings and two queens, and the mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots. Anyone with that ...

The Starz series The Serpent Queen is a historical drama that centers on Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France from 1547 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

She is the author of the book, The Identities of Catherine de' Medici, published by Brill in 2021. In the last week, I’ve been contacted by several friends and colleagues telling me if you type ...