Medici

After 20 years of grooming, Cosimo de' Medici replaces his late father in the Signoria of Florence.

Cosimo boosts morale and the economy by undertaking the impossible: building the cathedral dome.

While Albizzi uses the plague to turn Florentines against Cosimo, two Medici family members are lost.

After Cosimo's arrest, his wife tries to buy a Signoria member's help.

In exile in Venice, Cosimo finds himself drawn to a slave woman.

Cosimo returns to Florence while Rinaldo is held for trial on treason and tyranny.

Pazzi has managed to convince the pope to remove the Medici as the church's bankers.