Recaps

Georgiana tried to contain political unrest in Piedmont and Milan while negotiating with Murat and considering Italy’s defenses, trade, and future. As Bonaparte’s plans and British-French tensions sharpened, she remained in Milan, concerned for Dermide and seeking ways to influence Murat without committing to war.

• Georgiana arrived in Novara, reviewed Piedmont’s political tensions with Dubois, and inspected Turin’s bridge and city plans.
• Georgiana met Melzi and Terlier, then confronted Murat in Bonaparte’s clothes and ordered him to recall Lechi as forces moved against Cheroni’s supporters at La Scala.
• Georgiana investigated Cheroni’s political connections, restricted Cicognara to his residence, and discussed arbitration, extradition, and trade with Murat and Julian Ouvrard.
• Georgiana met the engineers responsible for the Po River Bridge, considered Turin’s defenses, and questioned how to protect Milan from war.
• Cicognara showed Georgiana a map of five royal buildings in Turin arranged as a protective pentagram, and Georgiana later asked him to accompany her to Elba to buy artworks.
• Georgiana sent Bonaparte a letter through Eugene Beauharnais, who warned her not to investigate French army smuggling before departing for Corcyra.
• Bougainville told Georgiana that Americans had found gold, while France introduced the Germinal franc and Britain and France maneuvered over Malta, Corfu, and Egypt.
• Georgiana proposed a coastal road to Murat, urged Bougainville to explain her opposition to slavery and the Inquisition, and later told Dermide not to avenge his father before leaving for the library.

Georgiana navigated Milan’s political and religious disputes while trying to prevent further war and secure aid for people caught between competing powers. The arc left her facing the army’s urgent need for funds as she continued to question her loyalties and choices.

• Georgiana toured Bonaparte City with Cicognara and resolved to prevent the Milan government from demolishing the church of Saint Protasius.
• Georgiana learned that Polina had lost 300,000 lira and went to Marino Palace, where she reviewed police reports and restricted Cicognara from leaving without authorization.
• Georgiana wrote to Bougainville against war with Britain and discussed Sir John Malcolm’s work, freedom of navigation, and a papal bull she hoped to give the British.
• Georgiana met Gabrio, cried as she told him people blamed her for an avalanche, and asked him to uphold justice for her.
• Georgiana argued with Murat over Naples and Corfu, then asked Augereau to hold Rivoli Castle and protect the engineer who had mastered the Loom’s secret technology.
• Georgiana left a meeting with city representatives to find Murat and stop him from going south, then proposed using Britain’s charitable trust system to settle land left by the Archbishop of Milan.
• Doppel delivered Murat’s letter to Georgiana, who learned that the army needed twenty million francs and could not get details because the matter was a military secret.

Georgiana navigated Italian political negotiations, ancient mysteries, and disputes over military and charitable plans while trying to protect Caroline and understand Cicognara’s gathering. The arc left her supported by Milanese advocates of poor relief as she prepared for further political negotiations.

• Georgiana proposed political agreements and practical reforms to Italian representatives, then pursued clues connected to Quirrell’s botanical album and the hidden key in Venice.
• Cicognara introduced Georgiana to Zoisite, who gave her a gemstone necklace and pleaded with her to protect Slovenia, but she rejected his appeal and fled.
• Georgiana attended Cicognara’s party, where she encountered eerie portraits and dolls, learned about Zabini’s role as an attendant knight, and suspected that the guests’ drinks were tied to Eleusinian rites.
• After Caroline worried that her baby had stopped kicking, a doctor confirmed that both were healthy, and Georgiana confronted Cicognara about the party before returning to Marino Palace.
• Magenta accused Georgiana of endangering children with her plans for Italy’s poor, while Luigi and Corolandi challenged her over military arrangements and the defense of Nice.
• Georgiana met with Sardinian envoys amid fears of French invasion and invoked Denmark’s disastrous entry into the Thirty Years’ War as a warning against rash involvement in conflict.
• Georgiana attended a Milan cathedral service, accepted Gabrio’s amber rosary, and made a gesture of the Trinity before the congregation.
• Count Lamborghini argued that the Church should aid people in need, and he reassured Georgiana that many people supported poor relief and that she was not alone.

Georgiana investigated political and economic dangers while grappling with her past, her feelings, and the uncertain source of her power. After visiting the Lombard Goblins’ hidden world and studying the shifting borders around Croatia, she turned toward the orphanage and met Magenta and her friend.

• Georgiana received letters about corruption and answered one while considering where her power came from, then attended a gathering where Frederick Stibbert exposed her old alias.
• Georgiana went to Brera Observatory with Fredley, discussed Galileo and the cost of war, and examined a chart that led Cicognara and Bougainville to warn her about danger around Palagruža.
• Georgiana learned that French wizards might fight Lombardy’s goblins over a cave’s treasures, then traveled with Zabini through a hidden passage to the goblins’ underground palace.
• Georgiana told Zabini that she wanted to prove her abuser and Sir Bacon wrong rather than live for revenge, then returned to Milan and watched a dragon-bone dagger sprout tender shoots.
• Georgiana refused Septimus Malfoy’s proposal to profit from war and sugar, while Fredley warned her that General Murat’s absence could leave her vulnerable.
• Georgiana studied maps showing Austria’s changes to Croatia-Slovenia, questioned Leon’s intentions, and explained to Luigi how rival prime meridians changed maps and instruments.
• Georgiana told Luigi that she feared the pain of loving too deeply and decided to adapt to the New World without losing herself.
• Georgiana spoke with Fredley about Tom’s upbringing and Myrtle’s death, made a laurel wreath for an orphanage girl, and went to meet Magenta and her friend.