This is a fiction book about the Medici dynasty, which will be of interest to a wide range of readers. We are talking about a dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany for three centuries. The action takes place in Florence of the 14th-18th centuries, when the first representatives of the Medici family appeared in the city. Their origin is unknown, as is the meaning of the family coat of arms. The Medici came from a rural area called Mugello and were simple textile merchants. But gradually representatives of this family begin to govern the Florentine Republic unofficially, without having any rank or title. The path to the formation of the dynasty was long and thorny: there were intrigues, conspiracies, expulsions from Florence and returns, murders and deaths under unknown circumstances, love stories, happy and unhappy marriages. There were two French queens from the Medici family: Catherine and Maria. In the middle of the 16th century, they achieved the title of Dukes, and then Grand Dukes of Tuscany.