In order to appeal to an audience not familiar with medieval and/or Renaissance Italian history, they decided to employ popular cultural references and entitled the documentary Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (USA 2004). In 2004, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) of America aired a documentary on the Medici family, who rose to prominence in Florence during the fifteenth century. It analyses the cinematic influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy on the documentary’s filming, as well as that of Hollywood gangster films in general, the distinct references that the director used to illustrate the link between the Corleones and the Medici, and the implications of these with regard to the depiction of Italian culture and history in both fictional and non-fiction films. This article considers the 2004 PBS documentary Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance in relation to its suggestions that the Medici family of Florence shared similar traits to modern Mafiosi.
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