The House of Medici, its rise and fall

Florence and the Florentines

The rise of the Medici

Enemies of the Albizzi

Exiles and masters

Archbishops and architects

War and peace

Artists and mourners

Piero the Gouty

The young Lorenzo

The Pope and the Pazzi

The saviour of Florence

The needle of the Italian compass

Lorenzo : patron, collector and poet

Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar from Ferrara

The excommunicant

Return of the Medici

'Papa Leone!'

The march on Rome

Siege and murder

Duke Cosimo I

The heirs of Cosimo

Ferdinando II and the French princess

Cosimo III and the grand prince Ferdinando

The last of the Medici.