Can Dynasty Detectives Unearth The Medici Secrets?

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 12-13-2003 | Bruce Johnson

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Catherine de Medici is credited with introducing the fork into polite dining."

Did she do it by waiting til a guest was poisoned and saying:
"Stickka the forkka in him he's done"?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Catherine de Medici is credited with introducing the fork into polite dining.

She also introduced high heels IIRC.

For one she should be praised and for the other pilloried

[BlackVeil]

This is a great article Blam, and thanks for posting it. It is intriguing to speculate about what they might really be looking for - the Medici were subject to all sorts of legends and rumours, including that they were necromancers.

Catherine de Medici is credited with introducing the fork into polite dining.

She also introduced high heels IIRC.

And also she introduced the sidesaddle. She also had this problem, which was that one of her sons showed no interest in women, and was rumoured to be homosexual. In order to change this, she organised a dinner where all the servers were nude girls wearing only a sheer veil.

The dinner didn't change the nature of the future Henri III, so it is an historical footnote.

[Henchman]

The prospect of finding out who was who etc is great to anticipate. Hope the reality doesn't take the fun out of contentious history.

[carpio]

BTTT

[Polybius]

Medicis were entrepreneurs, made their fortune in business.....

Well, at least in the beginning.

The history of the Medicis is a classic example of how inherited power and wealth has a corrupting influence on later generations.

If time travel were possible, it would be a pleasure and an honor to meet and converse with the likes of Cosimo and Lorenzo. As for the later Medicis, they evolved into a degenerate and parasitic ruling class.

[Cacique]

So? Did they find out anything? It's been three months already.

[Cacique]

Heck you don't even have to go that far. Look at the clintons, they're degenerate and parasitic without having inherited anything.

[blam]

"So? Did they find out anything? It's been three months already."

I haven't see anything yet.

[BlackVeil]

Bump for a re-read of this article.

Some results have come out of these investigations, ongoing, about the health of the Medicis. They say that they definitely had arthritis. They are working on the suspicion that one of them was poisoned.