A visually spectacular historical fantasy drama set in Renaissance Florence, Da Vinci’s Demons (2013) follows a young Leonardo da Vinci as he battles political conspiracies, secret societies, and personal mysteries while using his genius inventions and artistic brilliance to reshape a dangerous world of power, intrigue, and forbidden knowledge.
Lorenzo Medici gives Leonardo the contract to paint his lover Lucrezia, and he takes the opportunity to sell him his designs of airplanes, automatic load cannons and tanks. At the Carnival, Leonardo's mechanical pigeon flies and he has a sexual encounter with a masked Lucrezia, who's later revealed to be an agent of Riario and the Vatican. She tells the Pope about the weapons Leonardo is planning for Lorenzo and about his encounter with the Turk.
da Vinci studies anatomy with an executed human cadaver; he searches for a "soul" in the stomach. da Vinci continues his paintings of Lucrezia Donati for his Medici patron Lorenzo de' Medici. Riario is the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV. Riaro tortures Nico, da Vinci's assistant.
The murder of Sforza has ended the alliance of Florence with Milan. da Vinci is serving as Lorenzo's war engineer. da Vinci discovers an ergot infection as the cause of demonic convulsions among nuns.
The Florentine statutes criminalize sodomy; so, da Vinci is arrested on a sodomy accusation.
Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, is visiting Lorenzo de Medici. da Vinci travels to Wallachia where he meets Dracula. Dracula needs weapons to fight Sultan Mehmed II.
Federico da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, is visiting Lorenzo de Medici. da Vinci travels to Wallachia where he meets Dracula. Dracula needs weapons to fight Sultan Mehmed II.
da Vinci meets Pope Sixtus IV in the Vatican Apostolic Archive. At the end of the episode, Lucrezia Donati stabs Giuliano de' Medici in a river.
Francesco de' Pazzi wants to kill Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici. This final episode of this first season concludes with the Pazzi conspiracy inside a church in April 1478. The Pazzi family and their allies had Rome's Sixtus IV on their side.
