- Following yet another defeat, the Pazzi come to a decision: it's time to get rid of the Medici once and for all.
- The Sforza duke having been murdered on Pazzi orders, Jacopo plots to hire condottiere count Montesecco to seize Firenze and eradicate the Medici. Lorenzo still hopes for peace trough pope Sixtus IV, but as he sends his sister, she's prevented from speaking the Medici man in the curia, whom Montesecco blackmails into abusing her to set the trap. It now appears that a papal teen nephew just create Cardinal Riario is heading a papal peace mission, but is serves as cover for the bloody plot to slay all Medici in the cathedral. However a delay occurs. Giuliano and Boticelli are shattered, and on hostile terms, blaming each-other for the death from consumption of their unavailable beloved Simonetta in her husband Vespucci's home dungeon.—KGF Vissers
- Being firm on eradicating the power gaining Medici doctrine from the Florence, Jacopo Pazzi plans to hire count Montesecco's army to invade Florence after the plan of assassinating Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici is achieved. To serve this cause, Francesco Pazzi and Salviati visit Count Montesecco in the Curia and the plan of inviting Lorenzo ( who after the death of Duke Sforza plans to negotiate peace with Sixtus) to Rome through Pope Sixtus's orders to murder him, while doing so the three men sense somebody spying on them and when the count started chasing the man, the spy confides into Father Carlo in the chapel thus spilling all of the plan to him. Unfortunately in the very chapel the count eventually kills the spy and takes Carlo into captivity to keep their murderous planning from reaching the Medici brothers. Meanwhile in Florence, upon receiving the invitation to negotiate the peace in Rome by Pope Sixtus, Lorenzo is prevented to go to Rome as his mother senses smell of betrayal and instead Clarice goes to Rome on behalf of her husband while also for the cause to visit her family there. While in Rome, after learning of Lorenzo's absence the conspirators delay the plan, and also blackmail the captive Carlo (with whom Clarice wishes to speak to gain confidence over the conditions) of abusing Lorenzo's wife if he would spill any sort of truth to her. Despite Carlo's pretending of everything's being fine, Clarice senses something troubling with him and leaves Rome to aware Lorenzo of her unsatisfactory meeting with Carlo. On the other hand Giuliano and Sandro argue and despise while blaming each other's motives to be the cause of Simonetta's death, while Giuliano who now stays delirious and in despair seems to take no interest in anything but mourning for his late beloved. Also during being counseled by Lorenzo, Giuliano criticizes his peaceful approaches to deal with challenges and asks him to be wiser and evil than his opponents. Having seen their plan underachieved, now the Pazzi conspirators, along with bishop Salviati and the Pope (who is convinced on murdering the Medici head to save his papal authority) himself intend to send a peace delegation to Florence to discuss the peace terms with Lorenzo by sending a teen Cardinal Raffaele Riario who happens to be Pope's nephew, on behalf of the papacy, thus inventing a reasonable letting of the armed guards inside the Florence, as the cardinal is young. It is being decided that the butchering would be held during the banquet that Lorenzo had arranged for the cardinal. As cardinal Raffaele (who is unaware of the conditions) reaches the Medici Plazzo, he is welcomed by the Medici household. Giuliano who stays mostly drunk and sunken into his own grieves is counseled by his concerned mother Lucrezia, stays adamant on not to joining the cardinal in the banquet. Thus upon learning of Giuliano's absence during the banquet, where the assassinations were planned, the Pazzi plan once again fails and therefore Jacopo Pazzi along with his fellow allies including Marco Vespucci decides to kill both of the brothers simultaneously during the congregational mass of Easter in the cathedral. Finally when the day of the mass dawns, and while the Medici family members were getting ready, Giuliano intimidates Lorenzo of the situation by telling him of his hearing regarding a papal army approaching at the gates of their city, much to Lorenzo's surprise. However upon arriving the cathedral Giuliano promises his mother of being sane from onward and taking his rightful responsibilities for their family. Francesco on the other hand proposes a gesture of reconciliation to both of the Medici brothers by embracing them in order to check their armors before entering the cathedral. While during all of this, Guglielmo who also happens to be a Pazzi was invited by his elder brother Francesco to aware him of the coming event, decides not to meet him out of his loyalties with his wife and her family.
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