Seven years have passed and Lorenzo hopes to close the accounts with the Pope by obtaining the signing of a peace treaty between the various Italian rulers. Riario attacks the city of Ferrara, an ally of Florence, hoping to blow up the treaty and induce Lorenzo to return to open war. While the Magnifico faces this new diplomatic crisis, his mother Lucrezia, who knows she has little to live with, involves Clarice in managing the bank, also revealing the tricks he had to implement to ensure adequate funding for Lorenzo's policy and patronage. Worn out by the continuous clash with Sixtus IV, Lorenzo decides to start his son Giovanni in an ecclesiastical career hoping to increase the influence of the Medici in the Roman Curia. The peace of Bagnolo, signed by all the Italian princes,