I’m sure the Medici show at the Metropolitan Museum contains great works, but there is something odd about the context as portrayed by Ariella Budick (“Cruel Connoisseurs”, Life & Arts, July 17).

The history of Western civilisation may well have b een very different without the contribution of an emerging class of bankers who financed the Renaissance from the 15th century onwards. The ...

Netflix recently dropped Medici: The Magnificent: Part two, which was essentially the third season of the Italian-English drama. The show picked up from the second outing and finished up the story of ...