From the highest star

7

Lorenzo with the blue hood arrived in front of the door of Lucrezia Donati's house, knocked and she opened it, a Florentine noblewoman, descended from one of the oldest families in Florence, beautiful and virtuous, her family had fallen, but she at the age of sixteen years she fell in love with the beautiful Lorenzo, theirs was a great love, Lorenzo dedicated poems and sonnets to her, but soon he would leave that great love to remain faithful to his wife.
"I thought you would not come" she with the smile of a child looked at him in love "is your husband there?" Asked the Magnificent "he's away on business" he came in and she closed the door, "I'm sorry about yesterday" he said "I've heard of mediocre excuses to neglect a lover but save a father's life, you'll have to invent something better than an "I'm sorry" Lorenzo, how are you "asked the beautiful dark-haired woman" she's fine "
"Did they hurt you?" Lucrezia approached him, "no"
"Not a small scratch" Lucrezia kissed her chest "no" pushed her onto the bed and she smiled.
They lay, she on top of him, in her arms, they joined in a passionate kiss, and once again they spent the night together.

"What's going on in your extraordinary head?" Lucrezia who was embracing her Lorenzo asked herself this question "sometimes I wonder if it is sometimes necessary to do evil to do good" the young Lorenzo was tormented by this question "what do you mean?"
"My father made an agreement with the Duke of Milan, Sforza, but the terms seem more ambiguous than he said, he treats me like a child, and now Sforza is marching towards the city with a huge army"
"What? But they will plunder the city ... what do you plan to do"
The bells outside began to ring and Lorenzo got up and began to dress "where are you going?"
"we must present the case of Jacopo Pazzi to the priors" Lucrezia looked at him with a crooked head and Lorenzo threw himself on her and kissed her. He left the house quickly and headed for the priors.

Giuliano was sitting in handcuffs with Cosimo and Lorenzo at his side, Pazzi was standing, Lucrezia was next to them, Bianca and Beatrice was there too "the Medici accuse me of hiring murderers ... paying them with this medallion of gold, but I can prove that this medallion does not belong to the assassins, tell me Messer Fanti do you recognize this? "
"Yes, Messer Pazzi, I told your nephew that there are my initials A. F." He exposed Messer Fanti but Giuliano did not believe it.
"There will be a hundred A. F.'s in Tuscany," Giuliano replied, opening his arms slightly
"But this medallion is curved, on a surface it wobbles," replied Fanti, the prior put the medallion on the table and it wobbled.
"You must have been so happy to receive it but you sold it, why ruined?" Jacopo asked
"Because d'oro and Piero de'Medici revoked my loan from me" Giuliano looked at Lorenzo, and in a whisper he asked them if it was true, Lorenzo knew nothing, his father had done everything.
"The doctors' theory would be this: my nephew or I would have paid murderers with a second-hand medal, taken from the market instead of drawing on our bank to avoid being discovered" After Pazzi's words, an angry Giuliano stood up " only the Pazzi hate my father to the point of trying to kill him "Lorenzo pulled Giuliano by the arm and made him sit down.
"It is natural for a son to be blind to the sins of his father ... for this reason if Giuliano de 'Medici will make his apologies ... I am ready to forgive and forget his accusation and the aggression" Pazzi turned to the nephews, Lorenzo looked at his brother, Cosimo did too, but Giuliano looked straight ahead, Beatrice, Lucrezia, Bianca looked at Giuliano waiting for his answer. Lorenzo got up.
"Sir, in the name of the Medici family I ask forgiveness from the noble Pazzi family for the intemperate behavior of my brother due to the ambush aimed at my father, it is evident that we were wrong" Francesco Pazzi in front of them looked at Giuliano with his hands joined under the chin, they stared at each other, the hatred that the Medici felt towards him was not describable.
"I hoped your brother would speak for himself" Pazzi didn't ask for much, but Giuliano just couldn't apologize for something he wasn't guilty of, Cosimo went to his ear "what are you sorry about ... even if it's false "The room fell silent, everyone was waiting for his apology, Giuliano looked at Pazzi" but it doesn't matter ... his silence counts as an excuse "The Pazzi found themselves laughing at Giuliano.
"I would really like to know how the medallion ended up in that room" concluded Jacopo as he was leaving.