#we could never be truly friends {francesco pazzi}

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Simple Things {Open}

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Francesco woke early in the morning, as he often did. He woke earlier than everyone else, the Pazzi household was quiet.

The world was quiet.

And Francesco relished in it. He dressed quietly and without fuss, before grabbing his cloak and heading to the door of his room. He made it out of the Pazzi household undetected and onto the quiet streets. This was Francesco's favorite time of day. Early in the morning when most of Florence was still asleep he had nothing to do but wander. And that is what he did.

The young Pazzi stepped off into the quiet streets, a few people moving about here and there, and he simply wandered. Exploring the city he was born in, going down every alley, and around every turn. Perhaps hoping to lose himself and disappear.

[thesongofthegreens]

Heyy!! Who's your fav couple in medici? I loved giuliano and simonetta's story it's heartbreaking, it was not lust but true and pure love

I also liked Bianca and guglielmo but their story was kinda incomplete. In s3 we only see bianca but we don't know anything about him. I had a feeling he died. What did you feel? ( ik he outlived bianca in real life but the show is pretty messy with timeliness since bianca died before lorenzo but in the series its the opposite)

I just saw this but I would LOVE to answer. so i think i have to say either clarenzo (clarice and lorenzo) or francesco and novella! i know francesco and novella's relationship soured after a year or two, but i loved how sweet he always was with her, until he suspected her of an affair, that is. he always let himself show her affection, even when they were in front of the public, when it was such a rare side of him.

i always liked giuliano and simonetta, and how they fell in love, but i didn't like that i could see tragedy coming from a mile away. i also didn't know about giuliano's death until watching the show, but i already knew someone would die and then it ended up being both of them, which BROKE my heart.

bianca and guglielmo was never my favorite couple, but i liked that he sided with the medici's for her. he seemed to truly care about her and became more of a medici than a pazzi, but him burning the note... i wanted him dead, though i know he didn't die immediately. i think it's because the medici's were always the ones handing him things and making sure he always had what he needed and always supporting him after jacopo turned a blind eye to him. his betrayal, though small, always made me want to fight him. i also get the feeling he lived well in his exile, even though he was never really seen again, just so that the medici's could say that they were merciful rather than tyrants, despite the fact that lorenzo lowkey turned to being one in the end.

saying that i hate guglielmo also brings in the complication of me saying francesco being my favorite, as he betrayed the only ones who loved him, but we would be fools to think lorenzo wasn't also trying to use him in his own little ways. lorenzo cared for francesco, but lorenzo did keep asking francesco to lowkey betray the pazzi family/let things fall into ruin for them, all to help the medici's. i always felt that if lorenzo had learned from jacopo's mistakes, rather than thinking himself above them, he would have been able to keep francesco as a friend.

[markantonys]

i’m concerned that s3 doesn’t have anyone to fill the “teenage boyfriend with whom our main character went through a messy breakup, and now antagonizing each other in the signoria is the only outlet for the sexual tension” role

[theoldshadow]

francesco pazzi - medici : the magnificent 

‘you are a medici. i am a pazzi. we could never be truly friends.’ for @inprometheanfire​

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Medici: The Magnificent

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FRANCESCO DE’ PAZZI - WE COULD NEVER TRULY BE FRIENDS

Series

A Touch in the Dark — I, II, III

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[thesongofthegreens]

FLORENCE, ITALY | IL DUOMO OF FLORENCE

Imola had been lost. More importantly, so had Francesco. He felt the latter's loss more, however surprising that might have been. Imola could be won again, despite the Pope's purchase of it, but he was not so sure that the same could be said of Francesco. What had Jacopo said for him to turn against them so quickly?

While Lorenzo could play as naive as he desired, he knew it was not only Jacopo's doing; his business dealings with the Pope and what truly been given to the Pazzi's had not entirely an innocent slight. Francesco had even questioned his motives then, but Lorenzo had never believed it would tear them apart. His own dismissal had only served to prove what lie Jacopo had fed his friend.

For the good of the Medici bank.

It echoed in his mind, when he would find a moment to rest, or when he believed he was more alone than he had ever been. With Giuliano mourning Simonetta, he had no one to bear the brunt of things. There once had been a time where his brother's absence would have nearly been missed, or even unnoticed. Not to say that he had not loved his brother, only that his own loneliness had been a shallow fountain then - it had become a sea.

With the Pope preparing an army to Imola, supposedly to set upon Florence, he knew he needed more than his family by his side. And for that, he would have to admit his sins and possibly those of his fathers before him, no matter how difficult it would be for him to do so. Republics could not be built without a cost.

As the carriage rode along the stones, there were bumps along the way, yet the carriage was never set off the track - it still persevered. I will become the carriage, if I must, he thought, though he was less sure that his path would be so easy.

He passed the many doors surrounding the cathedral, and the many people making their way to mass. There, in the many pews that were held there, they would still be separated by status, but God would see them as equals. They would dip their fingers into holy water and bless His name as equals. Such a small thing set a smile on his lips, for he wished the rest of Florence could be so.

Lorenzo dreamed for it to be so.

When he arrived, his coachmen knocked on the wood, pulling him from his daydreams and to the mouth of the cathedral. He found his brother there, waiting for him, as he exited the carriage. He spoke a few choice words to Bastiano, before encouraging his brother to believe in the good of othes, that words could bring peace before the sword.

As they turned and walked the steps, his heart grew heavy at the sight of his friend, a small smile set onto his face. In the months that had passed, Lorenzo had not seen such a sight, despite the many times he had seen the Florentine banker.

He found himself stopping, with Francesco met his gaze; there was regret there, but there was something else, something ready to take on a life of its own. Lorenzo felt it, in the very fiber of his being, that the mass service would change the tides, though he could not say whether it would be in any of their favors.

"I know our families have had their disagreements, but I hope from now on, we can bury that, start new, for all our sakes." The smile that touched his mouth was friendship, his arms held out for an embrace. It was one that had not been shared in many fortnights.

Lorenzo could not help but think of his grandmother, her wish to see their families at peace, for eternity. But it was not just her, but the shadow that had been hanging over both of them that reminded him to let the past live there, to make anew with what they could.

After a moment, he moved forward, his own arms wrapping around his friend, though he could not claim his heart remained entirely whole. For both of their sakes, he whispered, "I always meant for us to be friends, Francesco."

"We shall be again."

While Lorenzo would not admit it to his brother, to the many seeing them at the mouth of the cathedral, he had sunk right into the embrace at the promise, relief flooding through him. Whatever spat had risen from Jacopo, whatever unthinkable had been requested of the Florentine banker, Francesco had stood against him, one last time.

As they pulled away, to face one another again, Lorenzo touched the back of his neck, a smile being shared between them both - for a moment, all transgressions were forgotten.

"I am glad to hear it," he began, looking down to the ring he'd been given when he had removed his father from the Priori. He twisted it around his finger in thought, a sigh leaving him. "I don't want to simply begin another chapter of our friendship, Francesco. I would see our banks united, again." Brown eyes searched his, there was that secret in them again. "Truly united, not in word, but in deeds and parchment."

| closed roleplay with @all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone , sorry for the long starter, i wanted to set the scene! |

[markantonys]

Lowkey if I don't bother making this fic someone needs to do it; where Lorenzo has the worst crush on Francesco (because duh, he does. :)) and he's just clueless to it and blindly flirts to Francesco and both Francesco and Giuliano are just like; "Dude, we got something to tell ya- your crush is kinda obvious."

LMAO DO IT i feel like i usually write/read fics where francesco is the oblivious one so it would be so fun to see it the opposite way!!

i'm imagining francesco saying "you are a medici, i am a pazzi. we could never truly be friends" in eeyore's voice and it's making me laugh

what goes on in that mind of yours hjkdfg

[markantonys]

medici appreciation month: one relationship

→ lorenzo de’ medici & francesco pazzi

you are a medici. i am a pazzi. we could never be truly friends.

[markantonys]

Hello, your blog is really cool :) Who would you say is the most to blame for how it all turned out at the end of season 2? Jacobo (did he have any redeeming qualities at all)? Giuliano (wasn't he the one to initiate the hatred when Francesco wanted to start anew)? Lorenzo (did he ever treat Fracesco as equal)? Francesco (unlikely, right :D)?

thank you! and this is a very interesting question! let’s see let’s see.......giuliano, as much as i personally don’t care for him, i don’t really see him as much at fault for what happened because he was just off angsting over simonetta the whole time, he wasn’t really involved in any of the conflicts with the pazzi except for in episode 1 when yes, he’s absolutely to blame for escalating the situation and PULLING A SWORD ON FRANCESCO IN HIS OWN HOME but on the other hand francesco wasn’t exactly being genuine when he told giuliano he wanted to start anew, he was definitely being all smirky and sarcastic about it and trying to piss him off

francesco i’m also not inclined to put too much blame on because a) i love him and you know this jfkgh and b) for most of the season he’s more of a pawn in jacopo’s and lorenzo’s schemes, he doesn’t really have a mind of his own and that’s the whole tragedy of his character. he may have been the one to put the knife in giuliano’s back, but he never would’ve gotten to that point without outside influence

so i think jacopo and lorenzo are the biggest players of the political game in s2 and therefore the most to blame for what happens. jacopo for obvious reasons, lorenzo for pushing his luck too far, basically. he tried to have it all and ended up losing everything. in the early episodes he expresses a desire to be allies with the pazzi, but after francesco leaves in ep5 that goes completely out the window. lorenzo makes no effort to get him back (key moment: when francesco walks out after the dinner scene, lorenzo hesitates, debating whether to follow and keep talking to him, but he chooses to let francesco go and instead focus his attention on minimizing the damage to the medici bank from the loss of the papal accounts. at the crucial moment, he chose his own interests over his friendship with francesco, that’s why francesco says they could never be truly friends, because lorenzo always put being a medici first and francesco knew that)

lorenzo wants an alliance with the pazzi, but only on his terms. he says he wants to work with them, but what he actually wants is for them to work for him. he doesn’t understand how to compromise, he wants the pazzi to give him whatever he wants without ever giving them anything they want in return. that’s the real reason he lost francesco, not just because of jacopo’s manipulations, but because lorenzo was a SHIT ally lmfao

an interesting line i only really noticed on my most recent rewatch is in 2x01 when a priori member tells lorenzo that everyone in the priori is loyal to his family and jacopo says “indeed, the medici take great pains to ensure it.” and we see time again that the gonfaloniere is so obviously biased in the medici’s favor, we see that votes pretty much always go lorenzo’s way, unlike in s1 when there was often real worry about cosimo losing a vote because he faced so much more opposition. by the time of s2, the medici have amassed so much power and influence that the pazzi are basically the only dissenting voice left, and their lone voice isn’t loud enough to drown out the medici, which is why they feel that “the time for politics is over, medici blood must be spilled.” they’ve tried the legitimate route of political opposition and found it ineffective, so they feel that drastic measures are now called for. so obviously jacopo is to blame for what happened, but lorenzo is as well for pushing the pazzi out of the government at every turn and not realizing until it was too late how much resentment he was causing

[doctor-sharpe]

hi, i’m new here and i have THOUGHTS about francesco pazzi vs giuliano de medici. both could have been characters with wonderful depth, but seemingly only one got the development that he (historically speaking) deserved, right? well, i thought so too, but not so fast. consider:

the first time we meet francesco, he is quickly thrown into direct conflict not with lorenzo, but with giuliano. almost immediately we can tell that they’re exact opposites: giuliano is a womanizing, immature, slightly alcoholic soldier whereas francesco is shown to be a cunning politician who understands what people want and uses that to get what he wants. even their home lives are totally different, with giuliano growing up in a stable home with both parents and francesco dealing with his parent’s deaths and then life in jacopo’s hell house.

francesco’s story is so tragic because he is handed the worst possible circumstances, tries to do good, and still ends up being twisted and soured by his uncle. giuliano’s is so infuriating because he is handed the best opportunities, squanders them, and is able to walk away with no repercussions. we see this when he doesn’t want the city of imola and then gets jealous and annoyed when it is given to francesco, and again when his affair with simonetta costs sandro other commissions and ultimately leads to the death of simonetta herself.

it’s even symbolic that francesco is the one to stab giuliano in the duomo. why would francesco not be assigned to kill the truly powerful target and his one time friend, lorenzo? why wouldn’t vespucci, hellbent on revenge for simonetta, be the one to kill giuliani? it’s because when all is said and done, both die because of their own families’ ambitions. had giuliano not been lorenzo’s brother and therefore a threat, there would have been no reason for him to die. had jacopo simply been content with being just as rich and just as powerful as the medici- no more, no less- he never would have continued the feud that caused the crimes that francesco committed and was then hanged for.

when i first watched season two, i wondered how anyone could sympathize with giuliano, much less prefer him over francesco. then i watched it again, and again, and realized that although he is mostly unlikeable throughout pretty much the entire season, he is there to be francesco’s foil. francesco is everything that he could never be- responsible, totally dedicated to his work, sober- whereas giuliano is the one thing that francesco wanted but in the end could never be- a confidante and friend to lorenzo.

tl;dr: francesco and giuliano are foils for each other, and while giuliano still mostly sucks, he serves a purpose

historical accuracy aside, Francesco's story was straight up played like a tragedy in that we were supposed to care and then despair at the inevitability of his actions due to his uncle's looming influence in his life wrt the medici. if people care more about Giuliano's flat circle of an arc over Francesco's, I don't know what to say

and that’s that on that!!