Episode 2

The Second Episode of Leonardo aired on March 23, 2021, in Italy.

Synopsis
Warning: The following text was translated using online tools and needs to be fixed. Leonardo denies having killed Caterina but Giraldi, to get the promotion, must find the evidence to frame him by finding the collaboration of Masini.

Summary
Warning: The following text was translated using online tools and needs to be fixed. After an evening spent together, Leonardo and Jacopo Saltarelli are arrested by the officers of the Bargello on charges of sodomy due to the report arrived at the Podestà by Masini, jealous of the friend he will replace and ends up losing Caterina; the model prostitute is released after having four other people arrested, including Leonardo Tornabuoni, but at the trial the charges are dismissed thanks to the intervention of Amerigo Benci, a businessman close to the Medici. As confessed by Leonardo to Caterina, the boy had aroused emotions in him that he did not think he had. Due to the scandal, Verrocchio had to remove the artist from his workshop who was welcomed by Benci: the patron commissioned him to paint the portrait of Ginevra, his daughter. Leonardo's father, Piero, who had abandoned him as a child, decides to help him and recommends him for the commission of the Adoration of the Magi but the abbot will dismiss the painting and the man will take it out on him saying that he regrets having put it to the world. Amerigo de 'Benci is not satisfied with the portrait and dismisses Leonardo without paying him. The artist thus decides to leave for Milan.