title: The Dome and the Domicile
text: # The Dome and the Domicile
  
  "The Dome and the Domicile" is the second episode of the TV series Medici: Masters of Florence, directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan and starring Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden. It was released on 18 October 2016. It got 7.14 million viewers in Italy.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The war with Milan is going badly and Florence's economy is in ruins. Cosimo funds Filippo Brunelleschi to build a dome for the cathedral creating work and brokers a deal between Lucca and the Duke of Milan for peace. Twenty years earlier, Giovanni forces Cosimo to marry Contessina, the strong-willed daughter of a noble banker with financial problems, forcing Cosimo to give up his dreams of being an artist.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Richard Madden as Cosimo de' Medici
  * Dustin Hoffman as Giovanni
  * Stuart Martin as Lorenzo
  * Annabel Scholey as Contessina de' Bardi
  * Guido Caprino as Marco Bello
  * Alessandro Sperduti as Piero
  * Valentina Bellè as Lucrezia Tornabuoni
  * Ken Bones as Ugo Bencini
  * Lex Shrapnel as Rinaldo degli Albizzi
  * Brian Cox as Bernardo Guadagni
  * Brando Leon Rustici as Vieri
  * Michael Schermi as Ricciardo
  * Eugenio Franceschini as Ormando Albizzi
  * Tatjana Nardone as Emilia
  * Frances Barber as Piccarda
  * Alessandro Preziosi as Brunelleschi
  * Daniel Caltagirone as Pazzi
  * Andrea Tidona as Pope Martin V
  * Andrea Bruschi as Andreas di Cecco
  * Anthony Howell as Francesco Sforza
  * David Bradley as Bardi
  * Giusy Buscemi as Rosa
  * Marco Quaglia as Tancredi
  * Nicola Garofalo as Architect nº1
  * Laurence Belgrave as Architect nº2
  * Ivan Olivieri as Architect nº3
  * Francis Pardeilhan as Architect nº4
  * Luca Buellis as Tancredi's Son
  * Stefano Venturi as De Girolamo
  * Matt Patresi as Del Giudice
  * Robert Stainer as Merchant
  * Alberto Sette as Corona
  