Medici Obstacles and Opportunities (2016– ) Online
Finding the papacy unwilling to help out the ailing Medici bank, Lorenzo turns again to cruel duke Galleano Sforza, who accepts to pay off Milan's huge debt by trade treaty at rival city Bologna's expense. Lorenzo is patient with his unsophisticated but well-meaning bride Clarice and arranges for protege painter Sandro Botticelli to get his ideal model Beatrice to sit for a portrait at the Medici's expense. The new pope Sixtus IV appoints a Pazzi kinsman archbishop of Pisa, with jurisdiction over Firenze, so the Medici plot to lock him out. Lorenzo's sister elopes with the brother of Jacopo's deputy cousin Francesco, needing to by 'bought off' by Lorenzo, who still gets his treaty trough the 'priori' as Francesco deserts Jacopo.
| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Daniel Sharman | - | Lorenzo de' Medici |
 | Bradley James | - | Giuliano de' Medici |
 | Sarah Parish | - | Lucrezia de' Medici |
 | Sean Bean | - | Jacopo de' Pazzi |
 | Alessandra Mastronardi | - | Lucrezia Donati |
 | Matteo Martari | - | Francesco de' Pazzi |
 | Synnove Karlsen | - | Clarice |
 | Aurora Ruffino | - | Bianca De' Medici |
 | Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz | - | Simonetta Vespucci |
 | Filippo Nigro | - | Luca Soderini |
 | Raoul Bova | - | Pope Sixtus IV |
 | Sebastian De Souza | - | Sandro Botticelli |
| Jacob Fortune-Lloyd | - | Francesco Salviati |
 | Charlie Vickers | - | Guglielmo Pazzi |
| Callum Blake | - | Carlo de' Medici |