The Best Episodes of Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(947 votes)

   #1 - Original Sin

   S1:E110/18/2016

   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.

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.8/10(756 votes)

   #2 - The Dome and the Domicile

   S1:E210/18/2016

   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.

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writers:Nicholas Meyer, Frank Spotnitz

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   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writers:Nicholas Meyer, Frank Spotnitz
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   7.8/10(680 votes)

   #3 - Pestilence

   S1:E310/25/2016

   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.

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.9/10(653 votes)

   #4 - Judgement Day

   S1:E410/25/2016

   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.

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.9/10(639 votes)

   #5 - Temptation

   S1:E511/1/2016

   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.

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writer:Unknown

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   8.3/10(654 votes)

   #6 - Ascendancy

   S1:E611/1/2016

   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".

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

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   8.0/10(592 votes)

   #7 - Purgatory

   S1:E711/8/2016

   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.

   Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

   Writer:Unknown

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   8.5/10(715 votes)

   #8 - Epiphany

   S1:E811/8/2016

   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.

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   Writer:Unknown

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