02. They Call him "The Magnificent"

After witnessing his brother Giuliano’s killing, Lorenzo de’ Medici sees Florence turn into a bloodbath. The conspirators’ corpses hang loose from the bastions of Palazzo Vecchio while the people cry out for revenge: they shout the Medici name in a show of devotion.Who was Lorenzo the Magnificent for the people of Florence? As the law said, he was just a regular citizen, but he was capable of using his words as a weapon too.Lorenzo de’ Medici was destined to a magnificent future, and this is his story. Giovanni Battista da Montesecco, the man who refused to take part in the carnage that took place in Santa Maria del Fiore, tells us about Lorenzo de’ Medici.