Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

You've been immature and you've lied.

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

I was trying to manipulate you.

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

I don't know.

I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

it's just between us.

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorne.

How did the Medici influence the Renaissance?

Just how rich were they?

And what dark family secrets were lurking in their past?

Well, in the latest episode of our Everything You Wanted to Know series,

Professor Catherine Fletcher,

author of The Beauty and the Terror, an alternative history of the Italian Renaissance,

answers list of questions and popular online search queries about the notorious Florentine family.

Putting your questions to Catherine was our sub-editor, Riannon Davies. So welcome to the latest episode about everything you wanted to know series and today we're going to be discussing the Medici.

I'm joined by Catherine Fletcher and she's going to be answering the questions that you, our listeners, have sent into us as well as some popular online search queries.

So to start us off then, Catherine,

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