Plot Synopsis

After the murder of his father Giovanni, banking heir Cosimo Medici battles opponents of his artistic, economic and political visions for 15th-century Florence. With uncertainty about how his father died, Cosimo runs the Banco Medici and leads the Florentine Republic, while being haunted by his family's tragedy, causing him to think back 20 years earlier through flashbacks that reveal the relationship between Giovanni and his two sons. Netflix released the entire eight-episode first season, MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE, in the United States on Friday, December 9, 2016 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT.

Sometimes called Season 2, the first eight episodes of MEDICI: THE MAGNIFICENT premiered on Netflix on Friday, January 25, 2019 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT. Set 20 years after the events of the first season, Season 2 opens with Cosimo Medici replacing his late father in Florence's Signoria, where he must decide whether to support a call for war. As the war with Milan takes a heavy toll on Florence, Cosimo boosts morale and the economy by undertaking the impossible: building the cathedral dome. While Albizzi uses the plague to turn Florentines against Cosimo and his dome, two Medici family members are lost. Marco forces a shocking confession.
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MEDICI: THE MAGNIFICENT returned for eight more episodes on Friday, May 2, 2020 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT. Sometimes called Season 3, the new batch of episodes opened with Lorenzo's political skills being tested when the pope excommunicatesd Florence. Giuliano's son materialized, and Medici's head must reach into his heart.