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Director:
Roberto Rossellini
Writers:
Niccolò Machiavelli (essay "Cronaca del Consiglio di Firenze") &
Francesco Guicciardini (essay "Cronaca del Consiglio di Firenze") ...
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Release Date:
May 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama
Plot:
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User Comments:
Introductory history with great sets and costumes more (1 total)

Cast

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Marcello Di Falco ... Cosimo de' Medici
Virgilio Gazzolo ... Leon Battista Alberti
Tom Felleghy ... Rinaldo degli Albizzi
Mario Erpichini ... Totto Machiavelli
Adriano Amidei Migliano ... Carlo degli Alberti
John Stacy ... Ilarione de' Bardi
Sergio Nicolai ... Francesco Sederini
Michel Bardinet ... Ciriaco d'Arpaso
Piero Gremini ... Poggio Bracciolini
Mario Demo ... Sigismondo Malatesta
Duccio Dugoni ... Bernardo Rossellino
Yanti Somer ... Contessina de' Bardi, moglie di Cosimo
Ugo Cardea ... Niccolò Cusano
Marino Masé ... Francesco Filelfo
Lincoln Tate ... Thomas Wadding
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Age of Cosimo de Medici (International: English title)
The Age of the Medici (USA)
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Runtime:
252 min
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Introductory history with great sets and costumes, 30 June 2007
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Author: simon-1303 from United Kingdom

This is not really a drama; instead it's social,economic and political history told through sophisticated conversations between the protagonists and the odd set piece confrontation. Interactions are illustrative rather than performed. The positives are the real life settings using period buildings and cityscapes, the fascinating costumes and furnishings and the generally well done portrayal of interactions at the highest level. The subjects range widely: commerce, banking, arts, architecture, politics, diplomacy, government, though they are not covered in detail, with Rosselini skimming the surface in an appealing though superficial way. One might say one gets a feel for the themes of the period and it will be enjoyed more by those who don't know much about the period already.

So it doesn't have much on personal or family relationships, convincing conflict or intrigue, a sense of how the elite actually lived or much at all about the poorer section of the population. Think of it as a traditional history textbook with very rich illustrations.

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