Cosimo Medici reminisces about how he and brother Lorenzo where introduces to politics 20 years earlier by their domineering father, self-made banker Giovanni, as the old ...

A bitter war by the duke of Milan against small ally Lucca threatens to exhaust Firenze, where rival Albizzi tries to blame the Medici, until Cosilo arranges a semi-honor ...

Florence suffering from the Black Plague, Cosimo barely manages in time to move his family -like most rich- to their safer ancestral vineyard estate outside the city, but ...

After Cosimo's arrest, his wife tries to buy a Signoria member's help. Piero seeks to refute the charges, whilst Lorenzo takes a more drastic approach. ...

In Venetian exiles, the Medici depend on their cousin Mario's branch and the doge Foscari, who appreciates a lavish library donation and sympathizes, promising to plead t ...

Cosimo returns to Florence while Rinaldo is held for trial on treason and tyranny. Cosimo is visited by an unexpected guest, the Pope. Cosimo convinces the Signoria to ex ...

Cosimo, in the shadow of two murders and the imminent election of a new member of the Signoria in order to undertake Rinaldo's position, is also confronted with suspicion ...

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. ...