Original Sin (Medici: Masters of Florence)
"Original Sin" is the pilot episode of the Italian-British TV series "". It was written by Nicholas Meyer from a story by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer and directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. It was released on 9 December 2016. It got 8.04 million viewers and 28.90% of share. Plot. When Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici is poisoned his son Cosimo takes over the family bank and asks Marco Bello to investigate the murder. Cosimo is elected to his father's seat on the Signoria where Rinaldo degli Albizzi, the family's rival, is  pushing for war with Milan because they attacked Lucca. Twenty years earlier, Giovanni sent Cosimo and his younger brother Lorenzo to Rome with bribes to install a friendly cardinal as Pope and gain control of the Vatican's banking. Cosimo, who wants to be an artist, meets Donatello and falls in love with his beautiful model Bianca, but Giovanni finds out and has the studio shut down driving Bianca away.