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After some time, Cosimo returns to Florence as things turned poorly for the city, where it was in financial difficulty and mercenaries were causing trouble, leading them to invite back Cosimo to the Signoria. In his return, Cosimo eventually is successful in exiling his Albizzi rival, who had taken control of the government in Florence. Tensions in the investigation of Cosimo's father murder boil over as first Lorenzo and then Marco are accusedby an increasingly distrustful Cosimo.  Meanwhile, Albizzi himself is and his son are murdered as he tries by mercenaries during their journey into exile. Rumors swirl that Cosimo was the one who ordered the killings in order to begin revenge himself against his rival whilst still appearing magnanimous by publicly calling for exile, which implicates rather than execution. Adding to this suspicion is the fact that Cosimo since he was seen as his main rivalhad recently met with the mercenaries to pay them off so that they might leave Florence. However Cosimo, though, tells the Pope that it was a plot by likely Jacopo de' Pazzi, another a rival banker, who contracted the mercenaries, so that he might take over the Papal banking accounts from a Medici family now tainted by accusations of murder. Cosimo funds an army to retake Rome and reinstall the displaced Pope there in an attempt to keep control of the accounts, but the Pope continues to maintain that the Papal banker cannot be a murderer. To this, Cosimo produces a letter from Pazzi implicating him in the murder of a member of the Signoria and prominent family head showing him to be in Florenceleague with their enemies. He had Albizzi killed The pope then has little choice but to try to frame Cosimo so he could take keep the banking account of accounts with the PapacyMedici. This failed when  Although the Medici have become Florence's premier family, it has not come without a letter is uncovered that implicated Pazzicost. Lorenzo, Cosimo's brother, however, was has been killed after he and Marco captured a Pazzi assassin. Nevertheless, in the Medici family gains prominence again as they regain mission to find the Popeproof of Pazzi's favor and ultimately involvement in the murder of the Signoria member. And Marco has left Florence's, seemingly for good, in response to Cosimo having suspected him of killing his father Giovanni.  The mystery of that murder of Giovanni is finally uncovered revealed when Ugo, the Medici's close banking associate who kept recordsbank's long-serving functionary, Ugo, confessed remembers to murdering Giovanni because himself how he was ordered chose to kill a lover of LorezoGiovanni when he could longer stomach his disregard for other people, including those loved by his children. The straw that broke the proverbial camel's that back came when Ugo was ordered to take away the woman pregnant with Lorenzo's child. His regret in this led him to kill Giovannia home for unwed mothers where she and the baby ended up perishing.