The Real Life High Sparrow Who Took Over Florence | The Medici Final Episode

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Following the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was his Medici successor? Could he overcome the political turmoil and religious fervour in Florence, and rebuff the storm clouds of war gathering over his city with the approaching French army? How did this burgeoning catastrophe catapult the magnetic priest, Savonalrolla, to supreme power in Florence? Could he save it from the jaws of death with his fiercely puritanical regime? And, how would he become the bane of the Medici and destroy all they had ever built, in a roaring bonfire of worldly vanities?

Join Dominic and Tom for the climactic apotheosis of their glittering, dramatic, salacious and utterly bombastic journey through the rise and fall of the flamboyant Medici at the high point of Renaissance Florence, and the charismatic priest who would save and then conquer their kingdom. What would be his fate…?

00:00 Italy in the 15th century
06:22 The beginning of the Italian Wars
18:34 The reestablishment of the republic
24:47 The apogee of Savonarola’s power
31:06 The attitude to homosexuality in 15th century Italy
35:12 The bonfire of the vanities
40:44 Opposition to Savonarola
43:52 The pope’s attitude to Savonarola
50:37 The duel of the monasteries
55:34 The fall of Savonarola

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Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett
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Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor