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 ...

Born in 1519 and 1545, respectively, the women were descendants of Lorenzo I de’ Medici ... his flair for ostentation from his Medici great-grandmother, Catherine. Dispatched to France at ...

Born Giulio de' Medici, Catherine's uncle took the name Clement VII upon becoming pope in 1523. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Portrait of a young Catherine de' Medici, circa 1536 Public ...

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 Serpent Queen will soon premiere on Starz to tell the story of Catherine de Medici, who went from a ... I mean, to take these really human modern portraits of these people and put them in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Small wonder, then, that two of this fall’s guiltiest pleasures, the Starz series The Serpent Queen and Maggie O’Farrell’s novel The Marriage Portrait, show Medici women—­Catherine de ...