Medici: Masters of Florence

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  1. Original Sin

  51m

  The Medici family suffers a great loss with the death of its patriarch Giovanni. When the designated heir Cosimo discovers that his father was poisoned, he decides to put Marco Bello on the assassin's trail.

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  2. The Dome and the Domicile

  53m

  The war is throwing Florence into chaos. Piero, Cosimo's only son, is eager to fight. Meanwhile, Cosimo manages to "buy" the withdrawal of Milan's troops, thus saving the city, but in the meantime Florence has again fallen into the plague.

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  3. Pestilence

  49m

  Albizzi has managed to foment the citizenry against Cosimo, accusing him of the crime of usury. When Cosimo learns of the situation, he decides to return to Florence. Albizzi then invents a ploy to get Cosimo arrested and held for trial.

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  4. Judgement Day

  53m

  From prison, Cosimo asks Contessina to try bribing a member of the Signoria, to buy votes in his favor. Albizzi starts poisoning Cosimo's food through his prison guard. Contessina negotiates exile rather than the death penalty.

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  5. Temptation

  52m

  While the Medici are in exile in Venice, the situation deteriorates day by day in Florence, with Albizzi imposing his rule over a city gravely depleted by the absence of the Medici.

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  6. Ascendancy

  49m

  The return of the Medici to Florence is an out-and-out triumph, with Albizzi in prison for his attempt to become the city's "tyrant".

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  7. Purgatory

  50m

  The Signoria now has a vacant chair, and Cosimo is asked to choose who should occupy it. Piero thinks that his moment has now come, but the banker Pazzi, too, has his eyes set on that seat.

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  8. Epiphany

  50m

  Pazzi has managed to convince the Pope to remove the Medici as Church bankers, but Cosimo is disinclined to surrender what he has worked so hard to attain.

Cast

Daniel Sharman

Lorenzo de' Medici

Synnøve Karlsen

Clarice Orsini

Alessandra Mastronardi

Lucrezia Donati

Sebastian de Souza

Sandro Botticelli

Francesco Montanari

Girolamo Savonarola

Johnny Harris

Bruno Bernardi

Gualtiero Burzi

Fra Quintino

Sean Bean

Jacob Dudman

Giulio De Medici

Marco Foschi

Alfonso II di Napoli

Mirko Filippi

Nobile

Franco Filippi

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