Giovanni de’ Medici hat einen Traum. Mit besonderem Talent zum Netzwerken gesegnet, hat er den Aufstieg seiner Familie von bürgerlichen Tuchhändlern zu Bankiers, die die Politik bald europaweit bestimmen werden, weit vorausschauend in die Wege geleitet und den Übergang der Geschäfte auf die Söhne Cosimo und Lorenzo vorbereitet. Seine Verleihpolitik macht schon jetzt Päpste.
Sendedatum: 2016-10-18
Laufzeit: 51 min
Übersicht: 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.
Autor: Nicholas Meyer
Sendedatum: 2016-10-18
Laufzeit: 53 min
Übersicht: 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.
Sendedatum: 2016-10-25
Laufzeit: 49 min
Übersicht: 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.
Sendedatum: 2016-10-25
Laufzeit: 53 min
Übersicht: 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.
Sendedatum: 2016-11-01
Laufzeit: 52 min
Übersicht: 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.
Sendedatum: 2016-11-01
Laufzeit: 49 min
Übersicht: 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".
Sendedatum: 2016-11-08
Laufzeit: 50 min
Übersicht: 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.
Sendedatum: 2016-11-08
Laufzeit: 50 min
Übersicht: 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.
