MEDICI // 1x07-08 (Purgatory - Epiphany)

Purgatory S1, Ep7
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.

Epiphany S1, Ep8
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.

EPISODE 7

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. Meanwhile, Cosimo spends less and less time
with Maddalena, who instead develops a rapport with Marco Bello. The latter
at last decides to share with his master his suspicions regarding Lorenzo, and
when Cosimo confronts his brother about his father’s murder, Lorenzo defends
himself but Cosimo doesn’t believe him. In the meantime, Albizzi’s wife accuses
Cosimo of her husband’s murder, which causes the Pope to leave Palazzo Medici
and take up residence in a convent. Lucrezia, sure of Lorenzo’s innocence, helps
him – along with the accountant UGO and Piero – to find evidence that seems to
shift suspicion about Giovanni’s death to someone else: Marco Bello!

EPISODE 8

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.
Meanwhile, Maddalena finds that she is pregnant; and when Contessina too finds
it out, she is faced with the decision of what to do about the slave and her baby.
Cosimo asks Lorenzo’s forgiveness and persuades him to stay and help him to
incriminate Pazzi. While Cosimo goes to Rome in an effort to retake the city and
the Papacy for Pope Eugene, Piero has to give a speech in the Signoria on his
father’s behalf, to bring Cosimo’s strategy to completion. Lorenzo’s investigations
lead him to discover evidence against Pazzi, but the consequences will prove
tragic. In the end, Cosimo will once again find himself at a crossroads: what he
chooses could safeguard the family’s future, but it might also condemn his soul for
eternity.