Medici - Ascendancy ... ⇒

Cosimo and Lorenzo face bitter rivals, primarily the Albizzi family, who seek to seize their holdings.

This episode (Season 1, Episode 8) concludes the first major chapter of the family's rise. Medici - Ascendancy ...

Many deaths in the show/book (like Giovanni or Lorenzo the Elder) are dramatized; in reality, most died of natural causes. Cosimo and Lorenzo face bitter rivals, primarily the

📍 If you visit Florence, you can see the family's physical "ascendancy" at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi , their first great palace. Cosimo and Lorenzo face bitter rivals