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Medici Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Old Scores
Fri, Jan 25, 201956 mins
After ruthless patriarch Piero's death, a new generation of Medici is key to Florentine history. Piero de' Medici still incarnates honorable business, but the bank is now is too deep trouble to hide, as he must even call small debts from local merchants and borrow against future papal income, so rival Jacopo di Pazzi and his ruffian nephew Francesco smell Medici blood, planning to oust them from the council, provoking and setting up Giuliano Medici to be abused yet seem a false accuser. The mighty duchy of Milan can't repay its huge, crucial loan to the bank, but their Sforza general offers his troops to invade Firenze and eliminate the warlike Medici rivals. Lorenzo gets wind of it and calls the ransack off, having reached an alternative truce in the council and deposed his father Piero as family and bank head.
Episode 2
Standing Alone
Fri, Jan 25, 201954 mins
Pietro believes to be utterly betrayed by the foolish move to replace him. Lorenzo goes to Rome, asking pope Paul for an extension of the Medici bank credit from the papal tides. It's denied as the Pazzi man in the Roman Curia trumped the adopted Medici priest Carlo, but Lorenzo's mother gets mighty cardinal Orsini to promise his crucial support if Lorenzo weds his beautiful niece Clarice, who is quickly charmed but can't talked out of joining a nunnery. While the dynastic-diplomatic deal is concocted, Lorenzo returns to Firenze and reconciles his father by promising him to win the silver helmet in the annual joust. Brother Giuliana lets sister Bianca's secret Pazzi beloved Bastiano off with a draw. Francesco refuses to win by cheater sabotage, only to be decked fairly. The marriage is concluded by proxy, to Lorenzo's married mistress's fury.
Episode 3
Obstacles and Opportunities
Fri, Jan 25, 201955 mins
Finding the papacy unwilling to help out the ailing Medici bank, Lorenzo turns again to cruel duke Galleano Sforza, who accepts to pay off Milan's huge debt by trade treaty at rival city Bologna's expense. Lorenzo is patient with his unsophisticated but well-meaning bride Clarice and arranges for protege painter Sandro Botticelli to get his ideal model Beatrice to sit for a portrait at the Medici's expense. The new pope Sixtus IV appoints a Pazzi kinsman archbishop of Pisa, with jurisdiction over Firenze, so the Medici plot to lock him out. Lorenzo's sister elopes with the brother of Jacopo's deputy cousin Francesco, needing to by 'bought off' by Lorenzo, who still gets his treaty trough the 'priori' as Francesco deserts Jacopo.
Episode 4
Blood with Blood
Fri, Jan 25, 201954 mins
Lorenzo seeks a mutually lucrative treaty with Venice, but the doge's ambassador is only interested if it's sealed by marriage for his daughter, an unfitting sacrifice perfect womanizer Giuliano isn't willing to make. Lorenzo seeks to settle a dispute over industrially valuable alum (for dying) from Volterra peacefully, but Andrea Pazzi hires ruthless condottiere Federico da Montefeltro and even Giuliano's reluctant presence doesn't buy enough time to prevent a bloody siege and ransack of the small neighbor city state. Clarice jealously confronts Lucrezia but matches Francesco with envoy's daughter Novella Foscari, a most welcome alternative for Giuliano, who enjoys sexily modeling as near-nude Mars with Boticelli's alas married dream model as Venus.
Episode 5
Ties That Bind
Fri, Jan 25, 201957 mins
Pope Sixtus IV shocks the Medici by forcing Milan's duke Galeazzo Sforza by threat of excommunication to annul the sale of the conquered city Imola, re-destined as wedding present for a papal nephew. At his mother 's request, Lorenzo offers 'side-tracked' Giuliano the post of governor of Volterra, but he declines, saying rightly Francesco was the first choice anyway, and admits he prefers Florentine society, notably his affair with Simonetta Vespucci, co-model for adoring Boticelli, but that project is canceled when her husband smells an adulterous rat. At the christening of Guglielmo's baby, Jacopo poisons godfather Francesco's trust in the Medici's by focusing on his arranged wife's 'complicity'. The Pazzi's arrange for the papal accounts to be withdrawn from the Medici bank, but Lorenzo manages to split off the more lucrative alum contracts.
Episode 6
Alliance
Fri, Jan 25, 201958 mins
The Florentine republic's high magistrature of 'gonfaloniere' is up for (re)election, but the Pazzis will stop at nothing to sabotage any Medici candidate, even if that requires sabotaging the lucrative triple alliance with Venice and Milan. The pope follows the Pazzi advice to threaten Milan with excommunication, but Giuliano convinces duke Galeazzo Sforza to dismiss false Pazzi promises, which alas leads to a bloody riposte. Strategic Citta di Castello, formally in the Papal States but traditionally under Florentine protection, lies under siege from a papal relative implicitly granted papal permission to ransack it, but Lorenzo mediates a deal further compromising the Medici bank finances, despite papal refusal to reconcile. Back at Jacopo's side, Francesco helps discourages or murder Medici supporters in the Priori council to support the Gonfaloniere's reelection, but Lorenzo chooses a strategic young candidate. Francesco informs Simonetta Vespucci's husband of her affair with Giuliano, leading to private tragedy for all of them.
Episode 7
Betrayal
Fri, Jan 25, 201956 mins
The Sforza duke having been murdered on Pazzi orders, Jacopo plots to hire condottiere count Montesecco to seize Firenze and eradicate the Medici. Lorenzo still hopes for peace trough pope Sixtus IV, but as he sends his sister, she's prevented from speaking the Medici man in the curia, whom Montesecco blackmails into abusing her to set the trap. It now appears that a papal teen nephew just create Cardinal Riario is heading a papal peace mission, but is serves as cover for the bloody plot to slay all Medici in the cathedral. However a delay occurs. Giuliano and Boticelli are shattered, and on hostile terms, blaming each-other for the death from consumption of their unavailable beloved Simonetta in her husband Vespucci's home dungeon.
Episode 8
Mass
Fri, Jan 25, 201955 mins
The Pazzi prepare to launch their final attack against the Medici family.
