: Rossellini employed largely non-professional actors who often deliver their lines with a flat, uninflected tone, discouraging emotional identification and encouraging a more intellectual engagement with the facts.
: Follows Cosimo's rise as a shrewd merchant and banker following his father's death, detailing the financial machinations that allowed him to wield power through "cold hard cash" rather than military force. LetГ di Cosimo de Medici (1972)
: The production uses long takes and a restless, zooming camera to investigate relationships between people and their physical environments. LetГ di Cosimo de Medici (1972)