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| Bradley James will be Guiliano Medici |
The most beautiful piece of info ever as the highlight of our period set projects week! Those who know the spy probably remember when I said I was gonna ditch
MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE after it was shockingly announced that
Richard Madden won't be starring in the second season, but now that the new cast has been announced for the sophomore run of the magnificent epic TV series I'm definitely watching since our dearest King Arthur
Bradley James has been cast in the role of Giuliano Medici! The main star of the second season, which starts shooting next month, will, however, be
Daniel Sharman as his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, the grandson of Madden's Cosimo Medici who was the star of the first season. The eight part series will also include
Julian Sands as Lorenzo and Giuliano’s father, Piero, and
Sebastian De Souza as their friend, Sandro Botticelli. The pope will be played, believe it or not, by sinfully gorgeous Italian superstar
Raoul Bova and
Sean Bean will
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| De Souza, Sharman and Bova, left to right, will star in the second season |
portray the family's greatest rival and enemy Jacoppo Pazzi.
Sarah Parish (who is no stranger to epic series as she already starred in
Pillars of the Earth and
Atlantis) will play the new, older version of Lorenzo's mother while
Alessandra Mastronardi will play his mistress! Italian
RAI and
Netflix are producing the series again to air it sometime next year.
MASTERS OF FLORENCE The second season of the best epic series in last ten years, will be set 20 years after the events of the first. A young Lorenzo, the grandson of
Richard Madden’s character Cosimo from the first series, is forced to
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| Alessandra Mastronardi and Sarah Parish will be the female leads |
take over the family bank, which has been mismanaged by his father. As Lorenzo, his brother, and Botticelli set about trying to make Florence a great financial and cultural center, they face off against the Pazzi family, and Pope Sixtus IV.
