I have a Medici also. I consider them an outgrowth of what Mike Howard recalled from his days at Masi and Wizard. They did evolve though, and from my measure got more Colnago like.

The lugs Mario was planning got drawn up but he did not follow up with the tooling house. he did have a hand with the IC lugs that Masi did. As a result of his absence, the parabolic curves of the Recht funded parts became simpler, easier to execute arcs and radii. The finesse was lost in translation and budget. This was before the proliferation of CAD/CAM software and CNC machinery. If you place an IC lugged Medici along side a Confente, it is pretty easy to see the difference. I am pretty sure Mario would not have accepted the patterns or cast pcs. His bikes all used modified Bocama lugs.
I am unclear if Mario knew of the investment cast lugs before his departure.

The "as cast" wall thickness of the Masi Carlsbad lugs are considerably thinner than the what I would call industry standard currently by Longsheng. I find interesting that Masi USA by the mid 80's sourced lugs and fork crowns through Henry James of a different design. Something happened to that prior source obviously.