Il Moro

 

An interesting fact about Florence: the first Medici Duke was half African. 

Daphne di Cinto, whom you may know as the Duchess of Hastings from Bridgerton, has created a short film to tell his story. Please consider throwing some Euro her way to help get it out into the world.

And while we're on the subject of the renaissance in Italy being far from just for the white folk, get yourself a copy of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe and Black Tudors and give them a read.

History is for everyone.