A few months after the Pazzi Conspiracy, Lorenzo is still animated by the spirit of revenge. There is a long-distance conflict between Lorenzo and Pope Sixtus IV; this conflict tries to take advantage of the cruel Count Riario - the last of the conspirators who remained alive - who tries to start the war between Florence and Rome. While the Medici family learns of the existence of Giulio, the illegitimate son of the deceased Giuliano, a Dominican friar arrives in Florence who seems able to read in the heart of Lorenzo: Girolamo Savonarola.