1478. On April 26, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the most dramatic episode of the Renaissance was staged: Bernardo Bandini, Francesco Pazzi and Antonio Maffei attacked Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. The first dies, the second is injured. However, the crowd takes the side of the Magnificent and the conspiracy will end in a bloodbath and will result in a bitter conflict between the Italian states. The story is told by Giovanni da Montesecco, the man of the "great refusal": charged with murdering the brothers, he shirks the task a few hours before the massacre. His confession takes us directly into the heart of that era and sheds light on the thorniest issues of the Pazzi Conspiracy.
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1478. On April 26, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the most dramatic episode of the Renaissance was staged: Bernardo Bandini, Francesco Pazzi and Antonio Maffei attacked Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. The first dies, the second is injured. However, the crowd takes the side of the Magnificent and the conspiracy will end in a bloodbath and will result in a bitter conflict between the Italian states. The story is told by Giovanni da Montesecco, the man of the "great refusal": charged with murdering the brothers, he shirks the task a few hours before the massacre. His confession takes us directly into the heart of that era and sheds light on the thorniest issues of the Pazzi Conspiracy.
April 26, 1478, Easter Sunday: in Florence, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, during Mass, Giuliano de' Medici was brutally killed and his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent wounded. The Pazzi conspiracy has failed. But who are the instigators? How did we get to this terrifying page of history? Giovanni Battista da Montesecco (Derek Allen), the conspirator who refused at the last minute to carry out the heinous gesture, tells, in this first episode, how he was involved in this conspiracy that changed the course of the Renaissance forever.
The Pazzi Conspiracy
1478. On April 26, in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the most dramatic episode of the Renaissance was staged: Bernardo Bandini, Francesco Pazzi and Antonio Maffei attacked Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. The first dies, the second is injured. However, the crowd takes the side of the Magnificent and the conspiracy will end in a bloodbath and will result in a bitter conflict between the Italian states. The story is told by Giovanni da Montesecco, the man of the "great refusal": charged with murdering the brothers, he shirks the task a few hours before the massacre. His confession takes us directly into the heart of that era and sheds light on the thorniest issues of the Pazzi Conspiracy.
