1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,162 WWW.MY-SUBS.CO 1 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:18,080 ♪ I am here for all to see ♪ 2 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:25,960 ♪ In my bones there's dignity ♪ 3 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:33,160 ♪ I will fight them I can say that I can change the world ♪ 4 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:40,640 ♪ But if you let me I will make my world stand tall ♪ 5 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:47,920 ♪ Let me show you one last time ♪ 6 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,800 ♪ Let me show you one last sign ♪ 7 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,680 ♪ I can see it all ♪ 8 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,200 There are survivors over here. 9 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,960 -How long have these men been here? -Since last week. 10 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,880 And more keep coming every day. 11 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,760 We can provide shelter, but this mill must keep spinning. 12 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,560 There's no wool to spin. 13 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,280 The English ships won't deliver, not as long as the war drags on. 14 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,240 Our obligations cannot be met without revenue. 15 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:44,920 We can't even send the Pope's tithes to Rome. 16 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,880 The people are desperate. 17 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:48,680 This war must end. 18 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,880 Albizzi is outmatched. 19 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,640 If the war ends now, it will mean defeat for Florence. 20 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,000 If it doesn't end now, we shall be ruined. 21 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,960 --Madonna... 22 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,160 -What's going on? -There are men at the door. 23 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,760 -Where are the guards? -Showing the mercenaries. 24 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,600 -Shall I find Messer Cosimo? -No, I'll deal with this. 25 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,280 - Get out of the way! 26 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:18,600 How may I help you, Messer? 27 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,720 We have come to search the house, Madonna! Step aside! 28 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,000 Search? Whatever for? 29 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,200 There's no work to be found and we're hungry! 30 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,120 Go to the kitchen! 31 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,800 -Have the cook bring these men some food. -It's not food we're looking for! 32 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,640 This is not a bank. If you want gold, go there. 33 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,200 There are guards at the bank! 34 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,400 Move aside, Madonna. We don't want to hurt you. 35 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,240 Wouldn't it be simpler to just ask me where the gold is to be found? 36 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,040 If you please. 37 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,880 At the mint. 38 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,920 -The mint? -There are 54 grains of gold in a florin. 39 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,800 The last of ours are being used to strike new coins as we speak. 40 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:15,800 You're de Girolamo, aren't you not? The weaver. 41 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,240 And you're del Giudice, the mason. 42 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,120 If you ransack this house, rest assured the Gonfaloniere will hear of it. 43 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,320 Do you really want to face prison for a pointless search? 44 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,360 Wait outside, Messer. The cook will bring you food. 45 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,840 What good fortune that the gold is at the mint. 46 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Of course it isn't. 47 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,240 That door is to remain locked until you find Marco Bello. 48 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,280 Tell him we need guards. 49 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,320 What are you thinking? 50 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,360 I come from the front. 51 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,680 Where my son Ormanno fights valiantly. 52 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,800 Not to deliver fantasies of easy victory. 53 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,120 But the hard facts of war. 54 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:35,320 Written with blood and steel! We are sworn to defeat the Milanese! 55 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,640 But this, condottiero, Sforza, has killed and maimed many of our men. 56 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,640 To defeat him... 57 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,920 We need greater resources. 58 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,680 We have no more money to fund your wars! 59 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,560 -You cannot draw blood from a stone! -Yes! 60 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,560 I understand your hardship, Messer. 61 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,640 But our republic cannot afford to lose! 62 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,240 - Not after we have invested so much. - Signor Guadagni! 63 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,160 -Signor Pazzi... -We agree with Signor Albizzi. 64 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,760 We demand a vote! 65 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:10,360 --A vote! 66 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,280 - Yes! Yes! - A vote! A vote! 67 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,360 We agree! 68 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,160 Good! 69 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,600 Then let's move to the vote. Black for yes, white for no. 70 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,160 Our supporters are waiting for you to lead, Cosimo. 71 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:38,880 This war bleeds us dry. 72 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,800 -Oppose Albizzi. -Is that what you would do? 73 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,320 -If Father had asked you to lead the bank? -Why won't you? 74 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,480 I can see what Albizzi does not when the price of victory is too high. 75 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,160 So you just accept defeat? 76 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,240 I act when I can act. 77 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,360 The vote for more taxes... 78 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:03,000 - is past! 79 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,120 What are you doing here? 80 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,560 Are you deaf? Answer me. 81 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,960 -Praying. -Enough of that. Come with me. 82 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,320 When will you complete it, Father? 83 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,480 -Complete what? -The cathedral. 84 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,480 I told you to put away your drawings. 85 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,880 You will lead the life of a banker, not an artist. 86 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,240 I have put them away. 87 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,760 But the church cannot be consecrated until it has a dome. 88 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,680 I will not live to see it consecrated, neither will you. 89 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:29,760 Someone must be clever enough to complete it. 90 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,440 The problem is not the engineering. It's capital. 91 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,800 Well, surely we can afford it now. 92 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,600 With the Pope's revenues flowing through the bank. 93 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:40,400 Think, Cosimo. Why was the cathedral built? 94 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:41,920 -To honor God. -Yes. 95 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,880 And you honor God by serving this family, and our bank. 96 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,360 -I don't see how a bank honors God. -Men are God's creation. 97 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,880 - Whatever we achieve is God's glory. 98 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,600 -We're late. -What for? 99 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,280 We're going home to meet your father-in-law. 100 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,480 Some wine, Messer Bardi? 101 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,200 No. 102 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,920 My father will be with us at any moment. 103 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,840 I'm not accustomed to being made to wait, Messer Medici. 104 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,520 Yes. No disrespect is intended, I assure you... 105 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,360 I see you have already met my son Lorenzo, Monsieur Bardi. 106 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,480 -This is Cosimo. -It is an honor. 107 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,160 Shall we get down to business, Messer Medici? 108 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:34,920 Back this way. 109 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,960 My father and grandfather were bankers who could afford to buy noble blood... 110 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,040 Just as you do now. 111 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,840 I am aware, Messer. 112 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,360 Centuries of prosperity ruined 113 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,800 by a single unpaid loan to the King of England. 114 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,600 And now I find myself forced to sell my daughter's hand. 115 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,600 Your noble blood 116 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:09,320 is an asset whose value cannot be diminished. 117 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,960 Beware, Messer Medici. 118 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,600 It's difficult to scale the heights of power. 119 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,240 The fall is swift and easy. 120 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,280 -You are a wise man, Messer. -A humbled one. 121 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,320 As we are both men of business, shall we speak terms? 122 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,760 - Please. - Romantic, isn't it? 123 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:34,120 The loan that ruined my family was for 900,000 florins. 124 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,320 For my daughter's hand, I ask 100,000. 125 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,240 Oh! 126 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:42,720 Pardon me. 127 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,400 I appreciate your position, Messer, 128 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,680 but that is far more than this union is worth. 129 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,920 In that case, there is no union to be made. 130 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,200 Your daughter is attractive, but opinionated. 131 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:01,880 She has very few suitors, 132 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,400 none with the means to support your family. 133 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,680 You need to marry her off, Messer. And at a good price. 134 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,760 I am prepared to offer 50,000 florins. 135 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,320 That will not do. 136 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,640 You will not do better. 137 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:17,840 You miscalculate, Messer Medici, 138 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,240 50,000 florins can scarcely improve my family's position. 139 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,480 Not by itself, perhaps, but... 140 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,840 your bank holds bills of trade with merchants in Barcelona, 141 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,520 Seville, and Marseille. 142 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,920 Bills of trade as yet unpaid. 143 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,520 My bank is prepared to acquire these bills, 144 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,200 at one-third their face value. 145 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,480 All told, that would result in a net dowry of, uh... 146 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:47,280 81,473 florins. 147 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:51,560 Mm. 148 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,240 You calculate the conflict in Avignon will end 149 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,640 and these bills of trade will become payable. 150 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,320 Sooner or later. 151 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,040 In which case, rather than 152 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:12,360 paying for my daughter's hand, you would actually profit from it. 153 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,880 My family can afford to wait to pay these debts, Messer. 154 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,280 Yours cannot. 155 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,600 Very well... I agree to the terms. 156 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,320 And you, young man, you shall have my daughter as a bride. 157 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,880 We are delighted to welcome her into our family. 158 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,480 She's looking forward to meeting you. 159 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:08,800 Medici! 160 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,920 I must get back to the front. 161 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:17,440 But I am not ungrateful for your support, however belated. 162 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,040 I had no choice. The people of Florence are suffering. 163 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:26,400 It's not just the people who suffer, but your bank, which is starved of trade. 164 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,320 Do you have a question, Rinaldo? 165 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,760 I understand the surgeon, di Cecco, is dead. Murdered. 166 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,320 -So I have been told. -Curious. 167 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,920 I saw you talking to him inside the cathedral. 168 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,080 Only a few days before he died. 169 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,600 We are making inquiries. 170 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:48,680 Good. 171 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:54,520 I should be most eager to find out who killed him. And why. 172 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,000 Why does he speak like that? 173 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:01,720 He cannot suspect you. 174 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,800 It is not only the Milanese he seeks to destroy. 175 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:09,160 Come. 176 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,640 I was just going to get you. 177 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,760 - What is it? - Your wife. 178 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,320 Darling, are you unwell? 179 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,680 -I'm perfectly fine. -She's not fine. 180 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,040 -She fell. -When? 181 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,080 -An hour ago. -I stood up too quickly, that's all. 182 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,360 After drinking a cup of wine, she said it tasted off. 183 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,040 It was fine. I'm fine. 184 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,400 Will everyone please stop fussing over me? 185 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,360 You're pale as a ghost. 186 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,960 This is my fault, for worrying you with talk of going to war. 187 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:50,120 Nonsense. 188 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,520 She just needs a little rest. 189 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,760 -That's all. -Thank you. 190 00:14:58,200 --> 00:14:59,920 Do you think she's been poisoned? 191 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,440 -I'm not certain, of course. -How? In my home! 192 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,680 Well, it wouldn't be too difficult to uncork a bottle from the vineyard. 193 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,680 -I want all our wine disposed of. -I have already given the order. 194 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,960 Go to the apothecary. Seek an antidote. 195 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,160 At once. 196 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,840 What is it, Cosimo? 197 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,040 Business. 198 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:26,200 What kind of business? 199 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,280 Let me tend to these affairs. 200 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:31,720 You take care of this family. 201 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,040 I always have! 202 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:38,640 And more besides. 203 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,520 - Is he handsome? - I couldn't say. 204 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,880 Well, did he seem kind? Clever? 205 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:51,360 I've been told he's a cold fish. 206 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:55,320 I didn't notice, and you must stop asking questions. 207 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,720 Father, this man is to be my husband. 208 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,200 Do you take so little interest in my happiness? 209 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,840 This is not about your happiness. 210 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,000 -Obviously. -Contessina! 211 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,520 -Your tongue is too sharp! -So I'm told. 212 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,440 You've been given the chance to save your family from ruin. 213 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:13,960 By marrying beneath me. 214 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:15,480 That is the way all my friends will see it. 215 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,360 In that case, they are not worthy of your friendship. 216 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,640 Father, there are others who would have my hand. 217 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,760 You mean, Ezio Contarini? 218 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,760 He may have a title, but he has no resources. 219 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,680 He has declared his love for me, and I care for him. 220 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,320 Daughter, do you know how naive you sound? 221 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:41,960 When you marry into the Medici, we will gain 80,000 florins, 222 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,000 and you will be my eyes and ears on what is now the richest bank on earth. 223 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,360 Your bride's arrived, Cosimo. 224 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,720 -What are you doing? -I have no use for them. 225 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,160 Now that I am to lead the life of a banker. 226 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,560 Brother, you were always to lead the life of a banker. 227 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,920 The one that you wanted us to meet in Rome... 228 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,160 -That doesn't matter. -Who was she? 229 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,400 Bianca. A true woman. 230 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:33,680 But not suitable for a Medici, so Father got rid of her. 231 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,360 Well, whatever Father may have done, 232 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,240 Contessina de Bardi is to be your now bride, Cosimo. 233 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,640 -You must accept that. -More bad to do good. 234 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,800 Marrying into nobility is not bad. 235 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,920 And, uh, who knows, in time your affections may grow. 236 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,440 Advises the man who's yet to fall in love with a woman? 237 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,360 Come. 238 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:58,840 They're waiting. 239 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:22,560 Oh, yes, I do. 240 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,920 Contessina de' Bardi, Cosimo de' Medici. 241 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200 Contessina... 242 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,240 My son is delighted to meet you. 243 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,320 You two should get acquainted. 244 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,040 Are you quite well, Messer de' Medici? 245 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,840 You may call me Cosimo if we are to be married. 246 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,320 Thank you, Cosimo. You've not answered my question. 247 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,200 I think you know I am quite well, Contessina. 248 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,120 -Then you are uncomfortable. -And you are as direct as I've been told. 249 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,320 I know you did not choose this union, Cosimo-- 250 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:21,480 I did not. 251 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:25,800 I do not appreciate being mated like cattle. 252 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,960 -Cattle? -I'm sorry if the truth offends you. 253 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,520 -I did not choose this union either. -Then why go through with it? 254 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,680 Because it benefits my family, of course. 255 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,240 From the moment we are married, you will be a Medici. 256 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,440 You will not act as an agent for your father's bank, 257 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,640 telling him our family's secrets. 258 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,040 You will be my wife, 259 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,840 and you will be loyal to me, and only to me. 260 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:58,760 Do you understand? 261 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,200 What can I help you with, mastro? 262 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,400 Are you familiar with the properties of hemlock? 263 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,160 Yes, of course. 264 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,600 My friend may have accidentally ingested some. 265 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,560 That is quite an accident. Is your friend still alive? 266 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,440 -I seek an antidote. -When was it consumed? 267 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,400 Just a few hours ago. 268 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,000 I'm sorry, mastro. The only antidote is an emetic. 269 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,080 Zinc or mustard and castor oil, but it's too late for that. 270 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,840 Keep your friend warm. And pray. 271 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,080 That is his only hope. 272 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,680 -You sell hemlock here, don't you? -Yes. 273 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,080 It is needed from time to time to put down a sick animal. 274 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,160 -And do you sell it as a liquid? -As a liquid? 275 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,680 One that could be used, say, to paint grapes. 276 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,200 Grapes? No. 277 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,400 I don't prepare liquid hemlock, mastro. 278 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,600 Trade in or out of Florence has virtually dried up. 279 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,400 This cursed war is destroying the bank. 280 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,760 Well? 281 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,360 The apothecary says it is too late for an antidote. 282 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:13,560 Am I simply to watch and wait as my daughter-in-law dies? 283 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:16,680 May we have a moment? 284 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,440 Of course. I'll collect the accounts from the other room. 285 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,920 We don't know how much she ingested. 286 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,800 We are not even certain that it was hemlock. 287 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,000 But the apothecary does sell such a poison. 288 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,600 He could have sold the hemlock used to kill your father. 289 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,400 Surely he would never admit to such a crime. 290 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,520 No. Not freely. 291 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,600 You are not to hurt this man, Marco. 292 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,120 You need proof Rinaldo degli Albizzi killed your father. 293 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,560 -The apothecary could supply it. -But the surgeon was enough. 294 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,120 I'll not have any more blood on my hands. 295 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,160 The blood is on my hands, Cosimo, not yours. 296 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,200 Once a thing gets started, it must be finished. 297 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,200 God knows that is enough. 298 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:06,360 And Albizzi suspects. 299 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,440 -He can never prove it. -A viper cornered may strike anyone. 300 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,200 -He's already struck my daughter-in-law-- -Then we need the truth. 301 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,320 How is she? 302 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,480 No better, no worse. 303 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,440 -Ah, good morning. -Ugo... 304 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,880 -What are you doing here? -Your wife is in need of funds. 305 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,720 So I've been, uh, scraping together florins from different accounts. 306 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,000 Florence has ground to a halt under the weight of this war, 307 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,120 and there will be no hope of recovery until peace is restored. 308 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,440 When was the last time tithes were paid to the Pope? 309 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,440 Six weeks ago, I believe. Since before the war began. 310 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,280 -How much are we holding? -A great deal. 311 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,920 Almost, uh, 70,000 florins. 312 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,640 More than enough. 313 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,160 All those funds belong to the Pope. We cannot touch them. 314 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,880 Thank you, Ugo. 315 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:59,640 What are you thinking? 316 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,640 Opportunities may arise in the most unlikely of circumstances. 317 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,120 Messere... 318 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,640 Those men? Who were they? 319 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,880 It doesn't concern you. 320 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,280 Any strangers in my home at this moment concerns me. 321 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,400 I'm looking for her. 322 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:08,800 Rosa? 323 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,920 I can't get her out of my mind, Cosimo. 324 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,040 I loved her. 325 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,880 I don't care what anyone says. She wouldn't just disappear. 326 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,080 -It has been months, Lorenzo. -So you're telling me just to give up? 327 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,120 Like you did with that girl that you loved all those years ago? 328 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,120 I would never presume to tell you what to do. 329 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,560 What is it you want, brother? 330 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,560 If I am to act against Albizzi, I need allies. 331 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:52,280 -What kind of allies? -A kind one finds in Rome. 332 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,600 What would you have the Pope do? 333 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,920 I want you to prevail on him to sue for peace. 334 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,920 I don't see why Albizzi would listen to the Pope. 335 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,960 Albizzi is a man of faith, and the Pope has certain... 336 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,640 spiritual tools at his disposal. 337 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,240 If you want to end this war, then you must fight Albizzi head on. 338 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,160 You know what Father taught us. 339 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:19,480 Yes, but, surely desperate times justify a direct exercise of power. 340 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,520 If peace were to be restored, people would soon forget 341 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,040 the suffering they endured in this war, 342 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:26,960 but would long remember I advocated for surrender, and hate me for it. 343 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,920 Is it not better they thank the Pope than blame our bank? 344 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,320 Our great cathedral was begun generations ago 345 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,360 by our grandfathers and their fathers before them. 346 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,520 And some say they dreamt too large. 347 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,200 That their ambition outstrips our abilities. 348 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,800 But you, signore, are here today 349 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,960 to complete the great work that began so long ago. 350 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,440 Why has no one solved the mystery of the dome? 351 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,040 It requires a great understanding of mathematics. 352 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,400 The weight alone would cause the entire structure 353 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,040 to come crashing down onto the parishioners below. 354 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,880 No scaffolding could possibly be erected high enough. 355 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,520 So how do I propose to complete the great Duomo? 356 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,840 We'll erect an enormous pillar... 357 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:31,080 A giant mountain! Dirt, mixed with coins, upon which... 358 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,240 - The roof, of course... 359 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,520 With all due respect to my colleagues... 360 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,800 -It is unquestionably... -...without doubt... 361 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,320 -...the only way. -The only solution. 362 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,880 - The only way. 363 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:46,680 Fools! 364 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,680 Charlatans. And impostors! 365 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,960 None of you is fit to call yourself an architect. 366 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,800 Messer Medici, apologies. 367 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,440 But I would not have come, had I known this man was invited. 368 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,960 I was not invited, but I came anyway. 369 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,800 Because not one of you knows how to complete this glorious edifice. 370 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,240 Filippo Brunelleschi, at your service. 371 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,400 The doors you designed for the baptistery are of incomparable beauty. 372 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,240 - Oh. - That was 20 years ago. 373 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,080 It was Ghiberti who won the commission. 374 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,640 And this man's a goldsmith, he's not an architect. 375 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,040 He is just a buffoon, a babbler. 376 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,720 I'm a genius, ahead of my time. 377 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,360 How do you propose to complete the dome, Mastro Brunelleschi? 378 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,240 The answer is quite simple. 379 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,880 And it requires no pillars, no sponge-stone, 380 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,560 and no mountain of dirt and coins. 381 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:46,160 - The artist sees what nature hides. 382 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,840 The question you were asked is how, "genius." 383 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,400 I heard the question. And here's the answer. 384 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,160 Your presentation was dramatic, mastro, but short on detail. 385 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,000 You expect me to share my secrets with those scoundrels? 386 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,080 They would only steal my genius, and claim it as their own. 387 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,920 Surely you can explain to me how you propose to complete the dome, 388 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,720 since I am the man who means to pay for it. 389 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:33,800 Hmm. 390 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,760 -You ever been to Rome? -Yes. Many years ago. 391 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,680 Then perhaps you observed the sublime beauty of the pantheon, 392 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,640 built so many centuries ago by the ancients. 393 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,360 I did indeed. 394 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:03,120 I spend countless hours contemplating it, studying it from all angles. 395 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,840 I determined the only way to complete our cathedral 396 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,920 is to do it without scaffolding. 397 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,360 In the air. 398 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,840 -How? -By building not one... 399 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:24,520 but two domes. 400 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,680 The inner dome will serve as support for the outer dome. 401 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,480 Ingenious. 402 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,480 The first 46 feet will be constructed in stone. 403 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,680 Then we will use lighter materials, 404 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:43,440 either brick or spugna, laid in a herringbone pattern. 405 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,360 So each brick supports the other. 406 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,960 A flying buttress imbedded in the dome itself. 407 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,280 Precisely. 408 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,960 -How do you know it will hold? -I don't. 409 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,760 No one can say for sure, 410 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,960 because no one has ever attempted to build a structure of this scale. 411 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,120 If you fund me, it will be an act of faith. 412 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,640 It's been a long time since the Medici have come to Rome. 413 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,880 What is this urgent business of yours? 414 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,080 As you're aware, Your Holiness, 415 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,600 Florence is locked in a ruinous war with Milan. 416 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,600 I am. That's why your bank has held back our tithes from the north. 417 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,360 It wasn't safe to transport them. 418 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,120 The people of Florence are suffering. 419 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,320 What can I do? 420 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,720 Persuade Rinaldo degli Albizzi to sue the Duke of Milan for peace. 421 00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:31,280 I could write a letter for you to carry back. 422 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,400 Thank you, Your Holiness. 423 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,320 But I'm afraid that I will need more than a letter. 424 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,600 There must be consequences if Albizzi fails to heed your suasion. 425 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,920 -Such as? -Your Holiness... 426 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,240 has many tools at his disposal. 427 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,840 Spiritual tools. 428 00:34:58,040 --> 00:34:59,880 How is your wife, Piero? 429 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,720 Sleeping. But no better. 430 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,880 The messenger reached you with news of the Pope's rejection? 431 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,600 -Yes. -Pius fool. 432 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,040 - Son, are you not eating? - No, I, uh.. 433 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,320 stopped at an inn just outside Siena, where... 434 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,880 I heard the most remarkable rumor. 435 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,080 -What sort of rumor? -I heard that my... 436 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,760 brother intends to complete the dome in the cathedral. 437 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:34,400 Is this true? 438 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,960 No, it couldn't possibly be, Mother. 439 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,360 Even if someone were capable of completing such a dome, 440 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:45,000 which no one is, it would take years, and cost hundreds of thousands of florins. 441 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,880 Not even in the best of times did Father dare such an undertaking. 442 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,480 Cosimo, is it true? 443 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,520 -Of course it is. -Explain yourself. 444 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,960 We've known that he wanted to be an artist. 445 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,480 Although he's picking a very odd time to fulfill his childhood dreams-- 446 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,480 Cosimo, we barely have enough money to feed ourselves. 447 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,120 The men of Florence are poor. Hungry. 448 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,800 They grow restless and resentful. And two of them came to our home 449 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,560 only days ago seeking to rob us of our gold, did they not? 450 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,120 The dome will put hundreds into work. 451 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,520 Paid by imaginary wages? 452 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,840 And hundreds more providing bricks and supplies. 453 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,680 They in turn will buy clothes, food and the thousand other services 454 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,880 on which the citizens rely on for a livelihood. 455 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,320 You're making work. 456 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,680 - Out of nothing. - Not out of nothing, son, no. 457 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:31,760 The Pope may refuse to end this war, 458 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,560 but his tithes will be used for a spiritual purpose. 459 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,600 Until we can repay him. 460 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,240 You sent me to Rome, knowing he would turn down my entreaty. 461 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,160 And give you more time to use his funds. 462 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:47,280 The people will be grateful, not to the Albizzi for waging war, 463 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,600 but to the Medici for feeding their families. 464 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,120 I wish I shared your optimism, Contessina. 465 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,960 But while these lovely new jobs drain our accounts, 466 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,240 their taxes fund Albizzi's war. 467 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,120 And as long as that continues, we're all doomed. 468 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,280 Welcome, everyone! 469 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,800 All the builders, carpenters, see the clerk here! 470 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,520 All ladies go to the gentleman in black. 471 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:24,960 -What's your trade, sir? -Apples. 472 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,840 --Medici? 473 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,240 What's going on here? 474 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,120 You have been too long at the battlefield. 475 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,240 My brother has decided to complete the dome. 476 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,920 Complete it? Now? 477 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,880 While you wreak destruction outside of the city walls, 478 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,920 the Medici create within. 479 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,240 - Next! - Keep moving! Up the hill! 480 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,960 Don't be concerned, son. This folly will only hasten their demise. 481 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,000 If you're already assigned a position, please move on! Thank you! 482 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,400 The bill of sale, Mastro Tancredi. 483 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,840 -What bill of sale? -For the hemlock I know you sold. 484 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,520 I need the name of your customer, and proof that he bought it. 485 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,960 I don't have it. 486 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,360 Find it. 487 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,840 Or loose the other eye. 488 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,640 I'll be back tonight! 489 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:10,080 ...Matrimonium coniunctio 490 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,760 In nomine Patris 491 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:19,360 Et Filii et Spiritus Sancti 492 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,600 Whoop! 493 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,320 Are you always so quiet? 494 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,400 What if I am? 495 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,200 I am not. 496 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,560 Then that is something we will both have to get used to, Contessina. 497 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:07,480 Excuse me. 498 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,840 Give my son time. 499 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,120 Time for what? 500 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,560 To recover. He's still smarting from a failed affair in Rome. 501 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,680 Was he in love? 502 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,720 Perhaps he thought he was. 503 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,080 It was simply a laundress who caught his eye. 504 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,640 -Who ended the affair? He or she? -Neither. 505 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,800 I told his father to intervene. 506 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,400 For Cosimo's own good. 507 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,400 What's the matter? 508 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,440 You need to ask? 509 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,360 You are to lead the most powerful bank in all of Europe, 510 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,280 and have married into a noble family. 511 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,120 I don't see, uh, much you have to be upset about. 512 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,680 -You had no right. -I had no right? 513 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,080 -You sent her away! -Of course I did. 514 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:38,320 Father... 515 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,840 -this is my life to lead. -No, no, it is not. I gave you life. 516 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,760 And I will instruct you on what you do with it. 517 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520 -I wanted to be an artist. -An artist? 518 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,760 Your folly was made possible because of the privilege I gave you. 519 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:56,960 To what end? 520 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,560 You give me an education, you expose me to great beauty, 521 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,280 then insist I spend my life devoted to money and politics. 522 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,680 Money and politics 523 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,920 are what make possible the beauty that you so worship. 524 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,640 I didn't climb out of the stink and mud of that mill, 525 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:22,480 and scrounge the capital to start this bank and raise this family, 526 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,920 all, so you could just throw it away on, on, on youthful passions. 527 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,440 Think with your brain. 528 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,760 A man must live his own life. 529 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:39,960 Well... 530 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,480 a foolish man lives for himself. 531 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,520 A wise man lives with a purpose. 532 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,640 And yours is to serve this family. 533 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:54,560 And you will or so help me, 534 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,600 I will take away the life that God gave you. 535 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,560 My father gave me this crucifix 536 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,640 to remind me of my duty. 537 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,080 It's yours now. 538 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:42,880 Here. 539 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:49,000 Ricciardo! 540 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,120 How's it going? 541 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,360 We've got off to a fast start, Messer Lorenzo. 542 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,240 Water down that wine! I won't have any drunks on this site! 543 00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:03,800 If they say Mastro Brunelleschi is a genius, I'm sure he is. 544 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:05,120 - Stop that! - To me, he looks mad. 545 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,480 Get that food out of here! 546 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,320 No one is to stop working! Not even to eat! 547 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,160 Cosimo, I know you believe in the cathedral, 548 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:37,800 and it is not my place to question the wisdom of building it or the... 549 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,360 legality of using Rome's tithes to pay for it. 550 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,920 I appreciate that, loyal Ugo. 551 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,040 And I can see that men are back at work, and... and that there is 552 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,840 pride on the streets where before there was only despair. 553 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,200 But this war rages on. 554 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,320 And the Pope's tithes will not last indefinitely. 555 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,320 I am aware of that, and I intend to do something about it. 556 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,760 I know. 557 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,640 This is a dream your father took from you long ago. 558 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:12,400 And, perhaps, you sense... now is the time to seize it after all. 559 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,280 But some losses, once borne, 560 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,560 can never be undone. 561 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,760 Piero, saddle up. 562 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,360 We're taking a ride. 563 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:40,680 Where are we going? 564 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,240 To the war. 565 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,480 Cosimo de' Medici! 566 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,600 -Shouldn't you be on the Florentine side? -I came to see you, Francesco. 567 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,040 -This is my son, Piero. -Your father and I are old friends. 568 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,560 -But you're... enemies. -Hardly. 569 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,760 General Sforza is one of the finest soldiers of fortune in all of Italy. 570 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:36,320 I am a mere condottiere, to whom your father loaned money 571 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,000 many years ago, when no one else would. 572 00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,680 I am not the kind of man to forget a favor. 573 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,040 I was hoping you'd say that. 574 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,680 This war with Milan has dragged on far too long. 575 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,680 We have the advantage, my friend. We must press it. 576 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,400 What is it that the Duke of Milan seeks from this victory? 577 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:02,000 -Why... the city of Lucca, of course. -Lucca is wealthy. 578 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:06,240 What he seeks is revenue. 579 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,000 Give this to the Duke. 580 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,360 Tell him his guild will confirm the contents. 581 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,080 Tancredi? 582 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,120 Victory is in hand! 583 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,600 .A victory that will bring glory to all of Florence! 584 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,360 But only... if we persevere. 585 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,920 Don't tell me that you're going to vote again to support this scoundrel? 586 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,440 Even as he means to destroy us? 587 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:31,440 I don't intend to vote at all. 588 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,000 We have to keep fighting and stay strong. 589 00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,800 Then we will be victorious. This is our city! 590 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,240 This is our republic! 591 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:49,800 General Sforza. 592 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,720 I'm sorry to interrupt your speech, Signor Albizzi. 593 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,480 But there is no longer a need for it. 594 00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,240 Arrest this man at once. 595 00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:01,520 You may arrest me, but if you do, you'll be jailing a friend. 596 00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,280 I have come to announce terms of a truce. 597 00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:07,840 A truce? 598 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,680 The Duke of Milan has withdrawn from Lucca. 599 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:17,080 - The war is over. 600 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,320 -You paid Milan to withdraw? -I didn't. 601 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:38,680 Lucca's guilds did. 602 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:48,720 What's happened? 603 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,240 The apothecary's dead. I think he knew who killed your father. 604 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,280 I told you no more blood. 605 00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,040 He was dead when I got there. 606 00:50:57,960 --> 00:50:59,440 Killed with this. 607 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,960 -Whose initials are they? -I don't know. 608 00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:13,280 Well, find out. 609 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:32,640 The war ended, 610 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:35,760 you might just have the resources to complete this, brother. 611 00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,640 And the Pope will finally have his tithes. 612 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:40,000 It will honor God. 613 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,800 -Honor God or honor you? -Whatever I achieve honors God. 614 00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,160 Father! 615 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:56,640 What is it, son? 616 00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:58,520 Lucrezia's fever has broken. 617 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,920 -This is most welcome news. -Yes, but... 618 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,560 that's not the only news. 619 00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:05,880 Her illness masked another more serious condition. 620 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,520 What condition? 621 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:09,840 She's with child. 622 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,440 I am to be a father. 623 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:21,520 And you are to be a grandfather. 624 00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,560 Keep clear! Everybody keep clear! 625 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,640 What is it, Ricciardo? Was this man drunk? 626 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,160 Messer, he wasn't drinking. 627 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:49,400 It's the Black Death.