killed the father? To get rid of a bad person in the world, is that it? I don't quite understand the analogy the father was saying about horses and mules, is it relevant to Ugo's motive? Because it seemed Ugo didn't have strong motive to do what he did. Also, he did a pretty poor frame job. He framed Lorenzo first and he switched his victim to Marco because what? He couldn't see the brothers going against each other? Then why did he frame Lorenzo in the first place?
shareI have not gotten to the episode in my rewatch on Netflix, so this is from my spotty memory.
The analogy of horses and mules...Giovanni is saying the Medicis are horses and he will not let his sons mess with women of less then a noble/moneyed class (hence what happened to Bianca in episode 1, she got roughed up but did go with the money)...so that is why Rosa had to go, he did not consider her of the same class as Lorenzo. What ticked Ugo off was that he thought he was sending Rosa and her child off to some place safe but it seems like Giovanni might have had her and the baby killed anyway. Ugo, going by the line Giovanni says "you have to do some bad in order to do good," gets pissed off at what happened to Rosa and her baby that he offs Giovanni thinking the Medici's are better off without him and with Cosimo in charge (also why Ugo says to Cosimo at the end that he is a much better man then his father...)
I don't think he meant to frame Lorenzo (again I need to rewatch here), I think he used the knife and Lorenzo was unfortunately implicated. The knife was someone else's that Lorenzo won at cards...so without Marco Bello snooping around, no one would have had any clue whose knife it was. I think he might have set up Marco Bello for fear that Marco would eventually uncover the truth.
He realized the father was a monster based off of his being almost pleased with the death of an innocent woman and baby. We also know that this isnt theonly distasteful thing he had ordered in his life, for example Bianca. Ugo thought that god would condemn the father. He also largely driven off of overwhelming guilt for what happened to Rosa.
He did not mean to frame Lorenzo. The use of his knife was likely spur of the moment. He framed Marco Bello because he knew Lorenzo and Lucrezia suspected him and he wanted to permanently end the investigation into the fathers death so he could never be found out.