Some quite fancy clothes for The Renaissance, too.
- The main plot of the series involves Piero de' Medici plotting to overthrow the Duke of Florence. Except there wasn't a Duke of Florence in Leonardo's time, and Piero was the de facto ruler of the city himself (the later Duke of Florence was Piero's great-grandson, simply formalizing the Medici rule).
- Interestingly, in one episode Piero give his son Lorenzo a potted history of how his grandfather Giovanni invented modern banking, which is more or less accurate (except that he says Giovanni "arrived" in Florence, when he was actually born there).
- Another major inaccuracy is the presentation of Niccolò Machiavelli (picture). Not only was Machiavelli not black, when the program is meant to be set (1467), he hadn't even been born yet. Machiavelli was born in 1469 and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who turns up as a Jerk Jock, was born in 1475, a full eight years later! Moreover, Machiavelli and Leonardo didn't know each other when they were teenagers, mostly because of the seventeen year age difference. The pair only met as adults much later (and only once, because Michelango loathed Leonardo).
- In episode 8, Michelangelo's painting is presumably meant to be the real Michelangelo's famous Battle of Cascini. Except the painting used is The Battle of Anghiari, which was by Leonardo.
- Not to mention that before his commission for the Sistine Chapel in 1508, Michelangelo was better known as a sculptor.
