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Clips from Medici: Masters of Florence - The Dome and the Domicile (S01E01)

"We can't even send the Pope's tithes to Rome."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"If it doesn't end now, we shall be ruined."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"-Where are the guards? -Showing the mercenaries."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"How may I help you, Messer?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"There's no work to be found and we're hungry!"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"If you please."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"What good fortune that the gold is at the mint."
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"Of course it isn't."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"That door is to remain locked until you find Marco Bello."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"We need greater resources."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"We have no more money to fund your wars!"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"But our republic cannot afford to lose!"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"We demand a vote!"
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"- Yes! Yes! - A vote! A vote!"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"This war bleeds us dry."
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"I can see what Albizzi does not when the price of victory is too high."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"The vote for more taxes..."
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"What are you doing here?"
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"Are you deaf? Answer me."
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"-Complete what? -The cathedral."
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"You will lead the life of a banker, not an artist."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"But the church cannot be consecrated until it has a dome."
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"I will not live to see it consecrated, neither will you."
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"Well, surely we can afford it now."
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"We're going home to meet your father-in-law."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Some wine, Messer Bardi?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"My father will be with us at any moment."
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"I'm not accustomed to being made to wait, Messer Medici."
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"I see you have already met my son Lorenzo, Monsieur Bardi."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Shall we get down to business, Messer Medici?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Back this way."
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"by a single unpaid loan to the King of England."
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"And now I find myself forced to sell my daughter's hand."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"- Please. - Romantic, isn't it?"
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"The loan that ruined my family was for 900,000 florins."
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"For my daughter's hand, I ask 100,000."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Oh!"
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"I appreciate your position, Messer,"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"I am prepared to offer 50,000 florins."
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"at one-third their face value."
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"All told, that would result in a net dowry of, uh..."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Mm."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"and these bills of trade will become payable."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Very well... I agree to the terms."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"I must get back to the front."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"I had no choice. The people of Florence are suffering."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"It's not just the people who suffer, but your bank, which is starved of trade."
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"We are making inquiries."
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"Good."
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"He cannot suspect you."
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"You're pale as a ghost."
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"She just needs a little rest."
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"What is it, Cosimo?"
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"Well, did he seem kind? Clever?"
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"I didn't notice, and you must stop asking questions."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"This is not about your happiness."
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"-Obviously. -Contessina!"
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"You've been given the chance to save your family from ruin."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"By marrying beneath me."
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"That is the way all my friends will see it."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"You mean, Ezio Contarini?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Daughter, do you know how naive you sound?"
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"Your bride's arrived, Cosimo."
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"-What are you doing? -I have no use for them."
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"Brother, you were always to lead the life of a banker."
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"The one that you wanted us to meet in Rome..."
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"They're waiting."
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"Contessina de' Bardi, Cosimo de' Medici."
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"I did not."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"I do not appreciate being mated like cattle."
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"telling him our family's secrets."
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"You will be my wife,"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Are you familiar with the properties of hemlock?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Yes, of course."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"That is quite an accident. Is your friend still alive?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"I'm sorry, mastro. The only antidote is an emetic."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Keep your friend warm. And pray."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Grapes? No."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Trade in or out of Florence has virtually dried up."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Well?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"We are not even certain that it was hemlock."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"You need proof Rinaldo degli Albizzi killed your father."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"-The apothecary could supply it. -But the surgeon was enough."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"And Albizzi suspects."
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"Florence has ground to a halt under the weight of this war,"
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"-How much are we holding? -A great deal."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Thank you, Ugo."
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"Messere..."
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"What is it you want, brother?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"If I am to act against Albizzi, I need allies."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"spiritual tools at his disposal."
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"You know what Father taught us."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Yes, but, surely desperate times justify a direct exercise of power."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"the suffering they endured in this war,"
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"And some say they dreamt too large."
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"to complete the great work that began so long ago."
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"Why has no one solved the mystery of the dome?"
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"to come crashing down onto the parishioners below."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"So how do I propose to complete the great Duomo?"
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"-...the only way. -The only solution."
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"- The only way."
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"None of you is fit to call yourself an architect."
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"Messer Medici, apologies."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"But I would not have come, had I known this man was invited."
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"Because not one of you knows how to complete this glorious edifice."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"It was Ghiberti who won the commission."
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"The answer is quite simple."
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"The question you were asked is how, "genius.""
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"They would only steal my genius, and claim it as their own."
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Surely you can explain to me how you propose to complete the dome,"
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"since I am the man who means to pay for it."
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"built so many centuries ago by the ancients."
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"The first 46 feet will be constructed in stone."
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"Then we will use lighter materials,"
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"A flying buttress imbedded in the dome itself."
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"It wasn't safe to transport them."
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"I could write a letter for you to carry back."
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"Thank you, Your Holiness."
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"Is this true?"
Medici: Masters of Florence
"Cosimo, is it true?"
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