Medici Murders and a Basket Baby

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2010

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Centuries after the fall of their line, the Medici remain one of history's most powerful -- and notorious -- families. In this episode, Sarah and Katie trace the unfortunate and mysterious deaths of Medici family members.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from HouseofWorx.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Katie Lambert, and I'm Sarah Dowdy.
0:47.7	And we finished our Medici series a while back, but we're still getting mail about it.
0:51.7	About this illustrious, scheming clan of bankers and statesmen.
0:55.7	You all really, really love the Medici.
0:57.7	And Helen and Mississippi Seneson note saying,
1:00.7	you might be interested to hear that new Italian research,
1:03.7	published in the American Journal of Medicine,
1:05.7	shows there were at least two fewer violent deaths in the Medici family than previously thought.
1:10.7	Wait, tell me more.
1:12.7	So it's pretty awesome already, but it gets better because the more we looked into those two particular deaths
1:18.7	that of Grand Duke Francesco I Medici and his wife, the Grand Duchess,
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