1 00:01:26,060 --> 00:01:27,640 Gian Battista Cibo. 2 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,260 Gian Battista Cibo. 3 00:01:44,420 --> 00:01:46,960 Gian Battista Cibo. 4 00:01:47,460 --> 00:01:50,000 Gian Battista Cibo. 5 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:03,960 The Lord John Battista Chivo, Pata Patrum, Innocent VIII, the 6 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,860 Holy Father, is dead. 7 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,800 You've asked Burkhard to come? Yes, sir, Emilio. 8 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:31,180 Who else? 9 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,000 My lord, I thought it prudent to warn the Lady Adriana. Of course. 10 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,940 Has word been sent to Cardinal de la Rosaria? Yes, Monsignor. To us via last 11 00:02:38,940 --> 00:02:43,020 night. The petition was paid to inform him when it was known that nothing more 12 00:02:43,020 --> 00:02:44,100 could be done to the Holy Father. 13 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,260 Waste of money, Imperator. 14 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:47,540 Yes, Monsignor. 15 00:02:49,660 --> 00:02:52,040 The bells will tell all Italy before noon. 16 00:03:20,430 --> 00:03:21,730 Will you now be Pope? 17 00:03:41,130 --> 00:03:42,210 Does it show? 18 00:03:42,710 --> 00:03:44,130 I don't want it. 19 00:03:44,490 --> 00:03:45,950 And if it were mine? 20 00:03:46,450 --> 00:03:48,210 Not your one -eyed husband? 21 00:03:48,550 --> 00:03:49,550 No. 22 00:03:51,210 --> 00:03:53,570 Get dressed, Julia, my child. 23 00:03:53,950 --> 00:03:56,230 Perotto has sent for the Lady Adriana. 24 00:04:06,430 --> 00:04:07,910 Am I still desirable? 25 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,480 Your eminence may be confident of success this time. So I've thought 26 00:04:28,140 --> 00:04:33,840 But he who goes into the conclave a pope, the parts a cardinal still, how 27 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:34,599 will be absent? 28 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:35,599 Four, your eminence. 29 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,460 So, I must be assured of 14 votes. 30 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,500 May God direct me in wisdom, Perotto. 31 00:04:41,740 --> 00:04:43,780 He has already directed the Cardinal Rovary. 32 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,120 Has the Almighty told you that himself? 33 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,080 The Cardinal's chamberlain whispered it under the sheets to a woman. How 34 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,080 directed? 35 00:04:50,250 --> 00:04:54,270 To accept 200 ,000 buckets from the French upon the understanding... So 36 00:04:55,830 --> 00:04:58,930 For a Genoese, Giuliano della Rovere is a poor actor. 37 00:04:59,190 --> 00:05:02,510 No, no, no. Upon the understanding that when he's elected, it'll be used to 38 00:05:02,510 --> 00:05:04,530 cleanse the church of fee money and corruption. 39 00:05:04,810 --> 00:05:06,730 When he can't use them to buy votes. 40 00:05:07,170 --> 00:05:08,730 Will your eminence treat with him? 41 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:12,710 I shall embrace him as a loving wrestler. 42 00:05:13,570 --> 00:05:15,310 One foot about his ankle. 43 00:05:15,830 --> 00:05:18,890 Does your eminence wish me to recall the Lord Cesare from Siena? 44 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:23,500 No. My son will stay where he is. 45 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:29,800 Patience is good schooling for young churchmen, and the virtue all Borgias 46 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:30,800 painfully learn. 47 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,740 Who else knows of Rovery's gift from France? 48 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,680 Monsignor, a woman creeps into many beds. 49 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,880 My dear Perotto, do I ask you to favor a discriminating horse? 50 00:05:45,540 --> 00:05:49,080 However, let her story travel busily. 51 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:54,360 Into one ear there, another here, then deny it. 52 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:57,080 You disagree? 53 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,580 My wits are slow, Eminence. 54 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:05,500 There are some cardinals who will seldom watch the rover. So deny it. My name 55 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:06,419 with horror. 56 00:06:06,420 --> 00:06:08,640 Let it thrive upon denial. 57 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:16,000 Until I'm forced, at the favour of a woman, to acknowledge its roots. 58 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,260 Is Cardinal Sforza in Rome? 59 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,540 No. In Ostia, Monsignor. With Cardinal della Rovere. 60 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:28,080 It is the richest prince of the church to make himself pope because a 61 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,120 vote can be bought for two mule loads of silver. 62 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:33,540 No one has yet offered me a ducat, Giuliana. 63 00:06:39,140 --> 00:06:40,680 Look at my table, Asconio. 64 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:42,940 Cups of clay, not gold. 65 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,780 The books in my library are bound in poor hide. 66 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:47,440 Not studied with jewels. 67 00:06:49,340 --> 00:06:50,920 Your revenues are great. 68 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,880 To be expended wisely on God's work. In which the making of a pope transcends 69 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,720 all other tasks. Because without the head, the body is nothing. Well, 70 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,180 in that work, do not the expenditure be liberal as well as wise? 71 00:07:03,310 --> 00:07:07,610 When there is confidence in the good faith of those upon whom it is bestowed. 72 00:07:07,670 --> 00:07:11,010 Good faith is nurtured by early encouragement. 73 00:07:11,430 --> 00:07:14,830 I agree. I mean, even the Italians will be up. 74 00:07:18,550 --> 00:07:25,290 He'll not resolve the claims of France and Spain to the throne of 75 00:07:25,290 --> 00:07:28,630 Naples. It's upon the matter of France. I hear the king of France... You say you 76 00:07:28,630 --> 00:07:32,170 wait for God's prompting in this. It's made manifest in Rodrigo Borgia. 77 00:07:32,910 --> 00:07:39,210 Who robs the church and thinks of Julia Farnese's body even as he prays. 78 00:07:39,650 --> 00:07:42,790 It's manifest in the Catalan arrogance of his firstborn bastard. 79 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,540 I think the one in front is Giovanni Orsini. 80 00:08:05,220 --> 00:08:06,740 The other one may be his brother, Paolo. 81 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:10,860 I beg you, my lord, do not be rash. 82 00:08:13,260 --> 00:08:17,780 I hear your cousin will be offered the office of vice -chancellor. Should you 83 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:18,780 elected? 84 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:21,360 Very able man. 85 00:08:22,540 --> 00:08:23,540 Indeed he is. 86 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:26,460 But in poor health, is he not? 87 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:30,780 He would bring you but one vote. 88 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:35,260 The office would be a positive inducement, the one with greater 89 00:08:35,780 --> 00:08:36,919 Ask anything but that. 90 00:08:39,260 --> 00:08:41,020 Don't distress yourself, Juliana. 91 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:47,460 Without such inducement to offer myself, I'd hesitate to ask you to surrender 92 00:08:47,460 --> 00:08:50,920 your nomination and transfer your votes to mine. 93 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:53,400 Here. 94 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,080 You will accept nomination? 95 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:00,220 I believe. 96 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,440 that God Almighty has just called me to that duty. 97 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,520 It's the young Volkar. 98 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,880 Good day, my lord, Cesare. The forger Volkar with a discreet tonsure between 99 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:14,880 tiny horns. 100 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,960 Your brother's manners have not improved, Barlow. 101 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:19,680 My humble apologies, your grace. 102 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,460 Will the learned bishop of Pamplona forgive me and grant me his blessing? 103 00:09:23,860 --> 00:09:27,820 May Lucifer go with you, my son, in the name of the goat, the serpent, and the 104 00:09:27,820 --> 00:09:30,040 toad. Do not provoke us, my lord. 105 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:33,360 I've no quarrel with you, Paolo Orsini. You were a friend in our childhood. 106 00:09:33,580 --> 00:09:34,399 Then we'll be still. 107 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,840 Well, his father bets our cousin's wife. No doubt your cousin will profit from 108 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:38,840 the experience. 109 00:09:43,020 --> 00:09:44,280 You heard the bells, my lord? 110 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:47,500 What will you wager against my horse in the Palio? 111 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:48,720 A hundred ducats? 112 00:09:48,940 --> 00:09:49,940 Five hundred. 113 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:51,900 And a thousand against the Borgia Pope. 114 00:09:52,420 --> 00:09:53,420 No, my lord. 115 00:10:26,730 --> 00:10:28,270 Call it. The hawk is lost. 116 00:10:30,890 --> 00:10:33,030 You're a fool, Giampaolo Baglioni. 117 00:10:34,130 --> 00:10:35,830 What's a hawk to me now? 118 00:10:37,950 --> 00:10:44,930 At the last conclave, 119 00:10:45,210 --> 00:10:51,990 each cardinal was given a table, a chair, a stool, two urinals, 120 00:10:52,150 --> 00:10:56,030 a seat for the dischargement of the stomach, 121 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,300 Two small napkins for the table. 122 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:01,260 Four hand towels. 123 00:11:01,860 --> 00:11:03,320 Two little... Enough. 124 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,880 Enough. This is not what I asked for. 125 00:11:09,140 --> 00:11:13,200 Does your eminence wish to hear of the sale reserve for each party? No. 126 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:16,660 There will be sugar and pine seeds, as before. 127 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:18,140 And marsupial. 128 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,420 You are a worthy master of ceremony. 129 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,460 Whoever next takes Peter's shoes. 130 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,480 Who do well to keep you in that office. 131 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:29,320 Your eminence is more than generous. 132 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,260 You keep a journal, do you not? 133 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:34,720 My son? 134 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,160 Your eminence? 135 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:39,500 Prato. 136 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,280 You keep a day book? 137 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,800 Yes, Monsignor. 138 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:45,940 Of gossip, perhaps? 139 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,000 No, Monsignor. 140 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,020 You hear none? 141 00:11:54,090 --> 00:11:59,810 For example, that the Jew physician gave his late holiness potions of blood 142 00:11:59,810 --> 00:12:02,190 drawn from the veins of young boys. 143 00:12:02,910 --> 00:12:09,010 And if Cardinal Sforza becomes Pope, his brother Ludovico will boldly strangle 144 00:12:09,010 --> 00:12:13,030 their nephew and make himself the Duke of Milan. 145 00:12:15,170 --> 00:12:19,790 When God calls, if God calls me to the Triple Crown, 146 00:12:21,980 --> 00:12:25,680 The burdens will be eased by so well -informed a friend. 147 00:12:26,460 --> 00:12:30,440 If evidence may be sure, I'd serve him with love and loyalty. 148 00:12:35,140 --> 00:12:37,480 Then you are determined upon it. 149 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:42,420 I must respond to cogent persuasion. Oh, yes. 150 00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:44,880 Your brother, Lord of Ico. 151 00:12:45,260 --> 00:12:48,240 The regent of Milan is not my master. 152 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 I reckon. 153 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,040 Refer to the prompting of my conscience. 154 00:12:53,180 --> 00:12:56,980 You may rely upon federal votes, perhaps eight. 155 00:12:58,780 --> 00:12:59,780 So many. 156 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,360 You have the support of Milan and Venice. 157 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:04,500 You are French. 158 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:06,040 I told you there's no truth in that. 159 00:13:07,340 --> 00:13:11,840 In the early voting, I shall cast for Costa and Zeno. 160 00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:17,980 And by the third day, we should face each other, Juliana. 161 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,920 Bar if you are, may expect as many as four votes. 162 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,200 Do you? 163 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,920 No. He will prevent either of us from securing the majority of two -thirds. 164 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:35,800 What shall we do then, I wonder? 165 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:48,880 The castle of Nepi and the revenues of Agria. 166 00:13:50,380 --> 00:13:51,800 And the vice -chancellorship. 167 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,120 20 ,000 ducats. 168 00:13:56,060 --> 00:13:57,620 And the vice -chancellorship. 169 00:13:57,980 --> 00:14:00,560 If we cannot agree, Borussia will profit. 170 00:14:01,220 --> 00:14:04,700 And Spain's word will run through Italy from Naples to the Alps. 171 00:14:05,740 --> 00:14:09,240 And if we do agree, so may the word of France. 172 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:13,860 He is a Catalan, but you put even Spain second to his family. 173 00:14:14,260 --> 00:14:16,480 A Borussia dynasty of popes. 174 00:14:17,780 --> 00:14:22,660 In return for your votes, Giuliano, I'd gladly offer you the vice 175 00:14:22,660 --> 00:14:23,660 -chancellorship. 176 00:14:44,330 --> 00:14:45,330 Good morning, cousin. 177 00:14:49,470 --> 00:14:50,510 Where is Julia? 178 00:14:50,950 --> 00:14:55,690 Is her husband pining for her? She should rejoin my son until the conclave 179 00:14:55,690 --> 00:14:56,690 over. 180 00:14:56,970 --> 00:14:58,590 She says she must go. 181 00:14:58,950 --> 00:15:00,490 She will do as she's told and quickly. 182 00:15:00,890 --> 00:15:05,050 There is a mob on Via Fafale and the cardinal's servants are looting the 183 00:15:05,050 --> 00:15:06,150 apartments for their masters. 184 00:15:06,510 --> 00:15:07,510 A proper custom. 185 00:15:07,850 --> 00:15:11,510 This holiness may now face St. Peter in virtuous poverty. 186 00:15:11,930 --> 00:15:13,430 Two of your own are among them. 187 00:15:13,850 --> 00:15:14,850 Splendid. 188 00:15:15,950 --> 00:15:17,170 Julia. Madonna. 189 00:15:18,170 --> 00:15:19,210 How's Lucrezia? 190 00:15:19,630 --> 00:15:20,630 She's well. 191 00:15:20,870 --> 00:15:22,850 Agree? It improves. 192 00:15:23,490 --> 00:15:24,389 A Latin. 193 00:15:24,390 --> 00:15:25,710 Better than her manners. 194 00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:29,190 Then I was wrong to entrust my daughter to you, Adriana. 195 00:15:29,490 --> 00:15:30,590 What her mother do better? 196 00:15:31,090 --> 00:15:33,690 Madonna has a good heart and loves Lucrezia. 197 00:15:33,950 --> 00:15:35,190 As a cow its calf. 198 00:15:35,510 --> 00:15:37,890 But better for a child of the Borgia boon. 199 00:15:38,830 --> 00:15:39,830 Wait now. 200 00:15:40,070 --> 00:15:41,070 In there. 201 00:15:41,330 --> 00:15:43,160 No. I shall stay here. 202 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,860 Now go, child. 203 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:53,500 You better go. 204 00:16:02,220 --> 00:16:06,380 You may stay until I go to the conclave. 205 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,120 What do I tell my son? 206 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,400 That his wife is with me. 207 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,600 And his Orsini kinsmen? 208 00:16:13,060 --> 00:16:17,400 Do you think they give a fig because you had me to cackle your poor son? 209 00:16:18,780 --> 00:16:22,640 You should know the complaisance hopes for future profit. 210 00:16:23,060 --> 00:16:24,760 You will not be pope now. 211 00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:27,860 Sforza is at Ostia with Robert. 212 00:16:28,220 --> 00:16:30,900 As one great cat smells out another. 213 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:34,040 So cast for the one or the other and wait. 214 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Wait? 215 00:16:36,860 --> 00:16:39,960 At 19 I came to Rome and I waited. 216 00:16:40,910 --> 00:16:42,790 At 25, I was cardinal. 217 00:16:43,210 --> 00:16:44,810 26, vice -chancellor. 218 00:16:45,090 --> 00:16:46,090 And I waited. 219 00:16:46,650 --> 00:16:50,930 When our uncle, the Pope, died, the mob cried, Catalan! 220 00:16:51,450 --> 00:16:53,010 And they killed my brother. 221 00:16:53,750 --> 00:16:54,750 And I waited. 222 00:16:55,510 --> 00:16:57,830 Eight years ago, I was cheated over the tiara. 223 00:16:58,410 --> 00:16:59,410 And I waited. 224 00:16:59,930 --> 00:17:02,990 Now I'm 60, and I'll wait no longer. 225 00:17:03,610 --> 00:17:05,849 For God has rewarded my patience. 226 00:17:07,990 --> 00:17:09,430 I'm Rodrigo Borja. 227 00:17:10,089 --> 00:17:13,550 with enough gold to fill the Sistine Chapel. 228 00:17:16,609 --> 00:17:21,410 On the second vote of the second day, the votes cast this morning for Cardinal 229 00:17:21,410 --> 00:17:26,210 Zeno and Costa having been transferred to the second preference on the papers, 230 00:17:26,349 --> 00:17:32,330 the figures now are for the Cardinal Presbyter of San Pietro of Vincoli, nine 231 00:17:32,330 --> 00:17:37,210 votes, for the Cardinal Deacon of San Pietro of San Modesto, seven votes. 232 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,100 The Cardinal Bishop of Porto de Santa Fina, Vice -Chancellor of the Holy Roman 233 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:43,560 Church, fine votes. 234 00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:48,980 There being no majority of two -thirds, the papers will be burned and the voting 235 00:17:48,980 --> 00:17:50,260 will be resumed tomorrow night. 236 00:22:09,449 --> 00:22:13,210 For example, the rumor. 237 00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:18,230 that Cardinal Rovere has accepted 200 ,000 ducats from France to secure his 238 00:22:18,230 --> 00:22:19,230 election. 239 00:22:19,810 --> 00:22:22,090 Why, it was you who told me, Federico. 240 00:22:22,390 --> 00:22:26,530 I know your eminence. Speak of it with others. 241 00:22:27,470 --> 00:22:30,830 You see how cynical I am. 242 00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:36,650 I'll say nothing ill of Giuliano Rovere. 243 00:22:37,890 --> 00:22:40,270 Monsignor, if I may not vote. 244 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:45,880 yet have already done so. All will be well, if you trust me. 245 00:22:46,980 --> 00:22:53,120 But how did you cast your vote, Federico? 246 00:23:20,750 --> 00:23:22,350 You have much to learn, my Lord Bishop. 247 00:23:22,830 --> 00:23:24,070 You've been too long in Italy. 248 00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:26,610 Never hesitate when a knack is drawn. 249 00:23:29,050 --> 00:23:30,050 Writing you? 250 00:23:30,170 --> 00:23:31,450 Don't struggle, boy. 251 00:23:31,930 --> 00:23:33,450 My instincts are strong. 252 00:23:34,650 --> 00:23:36,850 I saw you writing with Giovanni Orsini. 253 00:23:37,130 --> 00:23:38,850 A tight -pursed master. 254 00:23:39,970 --> 00:23:41,530 Are you more generous than he? 255 00:23:42,850 --> 00:23:44,550 I'd be wise to outbid him, I think. 256 00:23:45,030 --> 00:23:46,030 You see my trade? 257 00:23:47,030 --> 00:23:48,490 There is none better at it. 258 00:23:51,470 --> 00:23:53,510 Would you take me into your household, my lord? 259 00:23:56,230 --> 00:23:57,230 Where should I? 260 00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,670 I am a Spaniard, like you. 261 00:24:00,870 --> 00:24:02,990 And I am only modestly ambitious. 262 00:24:03,550 --> 00:24:05,690 And I do say that your father will one day be pope. 263 00:24:08,130 --> 00:24:09,290 Signor, how can I refuse? 264 00:24:10,150 --> 00:24:11,470 I agree. Now let me go! 265 00:24:12,330 --> 00:24:13,690 Forgive me, my lord. 266 00:24:14,850 --> 00:24:16,090 Your oath on it first. 267 00:24:16,410 --> 00:24:18,090 In the name of Mary, Mother of Christ. 268 00:24:29,290 --> 00:24:30,290 Your name? 269 00:24:30,430 --> 00:24:31,470 Miguel de Correa. 270 00:24:31,730 --> 00:24:32,730 Call Michelotto. 271 00:24:33,130 --> 00:24:36,730 Take notice of your own precept, Signor Michelotto. 272 00:24:39,070 --> 00:24:43,210 In my service, you'll never hesitate when the knife is drawn. 273 00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:51,750 I call upon our saviour to witness that the vote I am about to give has been 274 00:24:51,750 --> 00:24:53,310 dictated by my conscience alone. 275 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:17,760 The figures now are, of the Cardinal Presbyter of San Pietro, eight votes, of 276 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,380 the Cardinal Bishop of Porto and San Rufino, seven votes, of the Cardinal 277 00:25:22,380 --> 00:25:23,740 of San Vito, six votes. 278 00:25:24,060 --> 00:25:27,500 There being no majority of two -thirds, papers will be burned. 279 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,460 Jean -Baptiste, you have persuaded me. 280 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,840 The revenues of Cartagena. 281 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:51,840 The castle of Nepe. 282 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,680 And my new palace on the Bakivaki. 283 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,020 And the office of vice -chancellor. 284 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,280 The revenues of Agria. 285 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,540 And the office of vice -chancellor. 286 00:26:05,710 --> 00:26:07,890 Three mule loads of silver. 287 00:26:13,090 --> 00:26:18,770 Cardinal Riario, whose vote I have, has asked for my palace of Trastevere. 288 00:26:19,970 --> 00:26:22,650 Since it's yours, it's in your gift. 289 00:26:22,870 --> 00:26:26,690 It shall be given, if I may hope, for the palace of San Lorenzo. 290 00:26:27,530 --> 00:26:29,970 Which accompanies the office of vice -chancellor. 291 00:26:30,230 --> 00:26:31,230 So it does. 292 00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:32,350 Very well. 293 00:26:32,450 --> 00:26:33,930 The vice -chancellorship. 294 00:26:35,020 --> 00:26:36,440 Is that all, Ascanio? 295 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,080 I feel the pinch of poverty. 296 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:46,960 Um, my brother Ludovico hopes that a new pope will acknowledge his title to the 297 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:47,960 dukedom of Milan. 298 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:51,900 Your nephew, the duke, is gravely ill? 299 00:26:52,620 --> 00:26:54,580 We fear he may soon be. 300 00:26:55,820 --> 00:27:01,920 I see no obstacle, unless your brother has objection for an alliance between 301 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,800 Milan and the Holy Office. 302 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,480 Not a little consummated in a marriage bed. 303 00:27:07,740 --> 00:27:08,740 Cesare? 304 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:13,200 The Lady Lucrezia and our nephew Giovanni. 305 00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:16,200 You have so many nephews. 306 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:18,520 And she's already betrothed. 307 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:19,900 It is always. 308 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,820 You've done so before. 309 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,400 Rovery has a niece. 310 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:32,380 I couldn't think of that vinegar stick in bed with any man. 311 00:27:32,990 --> 00:27:34,590 Even your nephew, Giovanni. 312 00:27:35,830 --> 00:27:36,830 Very well. 313 00:27:38,030 --> 00:27:40,030 That is all, Ascania. 314 00:27:40,230 --> 00:27:41,230 Is it not? 315 00:27:43,290 --> 00:27:45,030 Four mule loads. 316 00:27:45,810 --> 00:27:48,090 And gold, Rodrigo. 317 00:27:48,490 --> 00:27:49,610 Not silver. 318 00:27:54,310 --> 00:27:58,750 The Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Saurafina, 13 votes. 319 00:27:59,030 --> 00:28:01,550 The Cardinal Presbyter of Campietro. 320 00:28:02,110 --> 00:28:03,049 Eight votes. 321 00:28:03,050 --> 00:28:07,730 There being no majority of two -thirds, the papers will be burned and the voting 322 00:28:07,730 --> 00:28:09,250 will be resumed tomorrow. 323 00:28:25,130 --> 00:28:27,330 No, Jack, no. 324 00:28:27,570 --> 00:28:28,570 You are wrong. 325 00:28:28,950 --> 00:28:30,930 Come, sit down. 326 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:33,759 What's that? 327 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,300 No pope, eh? 328 00:28:35,980 --> 00:28:37,680 Not yet, old friend. 329 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,320 Did I vote for you? 330 00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:43,680 No, Giacomo. For Giuliano Rovere. 331 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,880 Oh, you see, I forget. I'm old. 332 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,680 Too old. No. 333 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,920 A venerable age. 334 00:28:53,340 --> 00:28:55,500 Ninety -six. Ninety -six. 335 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,960 They ask too much. 336 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,380 The paper is the vote. 337 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,520 My hand is rusty. 338 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,080 Of course. 339 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,400 Oh, we are all thoughtless. 340 00:29:08,540 --> 00:29:09,580 I have it. 341 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,100 Perotto can be your scrivener. 342 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:14,720 Let him write your vote for you. 343 00:29:17,060 --> 00:29:20,220 May God in his mercy release me soon. 344 00:29:20,780 --> 00:29:22,100 Too many years. 345 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:24,640 Too many debts. 346 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,660 What? Debts? 347 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,000 Debts. Perotto. 348 00:29:28,380 --> 00:29:29,380 A note. 349 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:30,940 Five thousand ducats. 350 00:29:31,390 --> 00:29:32,390 No. 351 00:29:32,650 --> 00:29:34,550 Hello, Giacomo. 352 00:29:35,650 --> 00:29:37,650 I would not insult you. 353 00:29:40,110 --> 00:29:44,870 For the Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina, 14 votes. 354 00:29:45,270 --> 00:29:49,370 For the Cardinal Presbyter of San Pietro and Vincoli, 7 votes. 355 00:29:49,810 --> 00:29:55,810 We have for Pope, the Lord Rodrigo de L 'Ancoli Borger, Cardinal Bishop of Porto 356 00:29:55,810 --> 00:29:58,230 and Santa Rufina, Dean of the Sacred College. 357 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:01,410 Vice -Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. 358 00:30:01,890 --> 00:30:08,890 I am Paul. 359 00:30:09,290 --> 00:30:10,610 I am Paul. 360 00:30:11,010 --> 00:30:13,370 We are the people of Christ. 361 00:30:28,970 --> 00:30:30,390 Alexander the Invincible. 362 00:30:31,670 --> 00:30:38,170 We desire and take the name of Alexander the Sixth. 363 00:32:10,410 --> 00:32:11,990 You've come for me? Yes, my lord. 364 00:32:12,510 --> 00:32:13,510 No, my lord. 365 00:32:14,790 --> 00:32:15,790 My lord. 366 00:32:16,690 --> 00:32:17,690 In private. 367 00:32:20,450 --> 00:32:26,470 We have been called to St. Peter's chair at a time of grave danger for Mother 368 00:32:26,470 --> 00:32:30,590 Church, threatened as it is by forces within and without. 369 00:32:31,530 --> 00:32:37,410 We are determined to restore order to this city of Rome and the faithful 370 00:32:38,350 --> 00:32:39,610 Brotherhood and peace. 371 00:32:40,170 --> 00:32:44,030 young princes, respect for God among all men. 372 00:32:44,930 --> 00:32:51,650 The Holy See shall be cleansed of tyranny, of simony, corruption, and all 373 00:32:51,650 --> 00:32:52,650 villains. 374 00:32:53,810 --> 00:32:59,410 We are vicar of Christ for the salvation of souls, not the gratification of 375 00:32:59,410 --> 00:33:01,230 personal or family ambition. 376 00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:07,390 Ten paces without gratifying his family ambition shall be discontinued. 377 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:14,140 And in earnest of his love, he makes you Archbishop of Valencia, together with 378 00:33:14,140 --> 00:33:18,480 revenues of 16 ,000 ducats and the palace of... But I'm not to come to 379 00:33:19,220 --> 00:33:23,040 Oh, my lord, he's assured the Curia he'll not permit his children to... 380 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:23,719 there already! 381 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:24,659 Open me! 382 00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:25,860 But discreetly. 383 00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:30,200 His Holiness believes your nature will not allow... The devil with my nature! I 384 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,040 go to Rome! My lord, don't be so stubborn! 385 00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:34,340 Nicolano! 386 00:33:36,420 --> 00:33:37,420 Trust me, my lord! 387 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,040 I won't forget you, you little weasel! 388 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,140 You can tell him I'll wait! 389 00:33:46,380 --> 00:33:47,680 Tell him I'll wait no longer! 390 00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:51,380 An audience. 391 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:53,980 To recommend the Lord Rinaldo to His Holiness. 392 00:33:55,860 --> 00:33:57,040 Upon what matter? 393 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,600 The desire of my master, the Duke of Mantua, that his cousin may receive... 394 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,160 beautiful the Lady Lucrezia looks in the firelight. 395 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:09,880 Be silent. 396 00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:12,639 You may not speak so. Not to me. 397 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,940 You're a child, Lucrezia. I'll speak as I wish. 398 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,060 I am to be wed. 399 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,199 Thus I am no longer a child. 400 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:24,260 A child. And too small to become big with child. 401 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:32,020 When my brother Cesare writes to me, he calls you the bride of Christ. 402 00:34:34,219 --> 00:34:38,100 He does so, he says, because he'd not offend my ears by calling you the Pope's 403 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:40,100 whore. You witch! 404 00:34:43,020 --> 00:34:44,020 Get out! 405 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,280 Take it out! 406 00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:46,880 Take it out! 407 00:34:48,540 --> 00:34:53,400 Madonna, I'm very saying, it is the desire of my master that his cousin 408 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,040 receive the cardinal's hand. 409 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:01,700 A neck so white, so slender, need... 410 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,040 What does your excellency think? 411 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,740 I'm content to agree with you, madame. 412 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:09,840 Pearls. 413 00:35:10,620 --> 00:35:14,140 The lady Lucrezia is excessively fond of pearls. 414 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:22,140 My brother Cesare says that when women become fat, they lose their wits as well 415 00:35:22,140 --> 00:35:24,540 as their beauty and are thus unlovable. 416 00:35:30,030 --> 00:35:32,610 Because your brother, Chesiree, will not love you. 417 00:35:41,770 --> 00:35:42,770 Chesiree. 418 00:35:43,710 --> 00:35:49,550 Geoffrey Farney. Chesiree. Excellency. Welcome to my humble house. My son. 419 00:35:50,750 --> 00:35:52,790 Happy and unhappy mother. 420 00:35:53,170 --> 00:35:54,310 Oh, Chesiree. 421 00:35:58,990 --> 00:35:59,990 Who is he? 422 00:36:00,090 --> 00:36:01,770 Hmm? It was a shadow. 423 00:36:01,990 --> 00:36:03,470 He blew out the light and he's gone. 424 00:36:04,150 --> 00:36:05,390 Why are you in Rome? 425 00:36:07,890 --> 00:36:09,490 Oh, it's the princess. Oh, she's well. 426 00:36:10,810 --> 00:36:12,350 When will she be well? In the autumn. 427 00:36:12,610 --> 00:36:13,930 Will you oppose it, Cesare? 428 00:36:14,270 --> 00:36:17,590 If you will. Oh, no, no, my son. Say nothing, do nothing. 429 00:36:18,170 --> 00:36:19,170 I am content. 430 00:36:19,490 --> 00:36:21,950 You weren't given leave to return to Rome. 431 00:36:27,030 --> 00:36:28,270 How are you, Signor Canale? 432 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:29,259 You prosper. 433 00:36:29,260 --> 00:36:33,240 Indeed, Your Excellency. The holiness has appointed him commander of the Torre 434 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:33,879 di Nonna. 435 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:34,880 Prison governor? 436 00:36:35,380 --> 00:36:39,260 Well, you didn't expect that when you wed my mother, now, did you, sir? No, 437 00:36:39,260 --> 00:36:42,040 no. Forgive me. I certainly expected nothing less. 438 00:36:43,260 --> 00:36:45,960 One is to be captain general of the Holy Church. 439 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,700 What? It was agreed long ago. 440 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,240 You were to be the priest and I the soldier. 441 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:57,220 I could defeat any force you led with only 50 horsemen. 442 00:36:57,420 --> 00:36:59,580 each wearing a cuirass of brightly polished steel. 443 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,640 A Popping Joe brother would be so besotted with 50 images of himself, he'd 444 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,180 no wits left for battle. You're ever a braggart. 445 00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:09,180 Would Your Excellency some wine? 446 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,620 Must you always quarrel with your brother in my house? We meet nowhere 447 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,960 Then I shall forbid you to come, though I see you too rarely. My father's a fool 448 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:21,759 to favour him. 449 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,540 If you weren't so blind with envy, you'd see he loves you boldly. But he keeps 450 00:37:25,540 --> 00:37:26,540 me from Rome. 451 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,220 Why won't he acknowledge me as his child? 452 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,380 The Borgia pool stands on every column in Rome. 453 00:37:32,620 --> 00:37:34,620 I may not put it above my house or on my servant's couch. 454 00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:37,060 I will speak with him. 455 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,360 You? 456 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:40,720 You mean nothing to him now. 457 00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:42,680 You've nothing to bargain with. 458 00:37:45,020 --> 00:37:50,360 If you must be cruel, take care you do not enjoy the pain you inflict. 459 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,040 You're right, of course. 460 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:08,080 When you see him, tell him... Tell 461 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,120 him I pray for him. 462 00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:15,300 She's well? 463 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,400 Yes. 464 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:21,480 Where are you lodged? 465 00:38:23,540 --> 00:38:25,060 At the Palazzo Baglioni. 466 00:38:26,990 --> 00:38:27,990 Am I welcome? 467 00:38:29,530 --> 00:38:31,310 You come to Rome without our permission. 468 00:38:33,070 --> 00:38:34,130 You've grown a beard. 469 00:38:35,170 --> 00:38:37,370 You wear silk, velvet, and carry a sword. 470 00:38:38,110 --> 00:38:39,930 You've hired an assassin, Perotto says. 471 00:38:40,490 --> 00:38:42,750 None of this is seemly an archbishop. 472 00:38:44,470 --> 00:38:45,550 Even one so young. 473 00:38:47,530 --> 00:38:50,810 Any man with the courage to stand above me may see that I am a servant of God. 474 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,440 What other man has such a son? 475 00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:03,860 What other son must call his father uncle? 476 00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:05,520 Yes, your mother said. 477 00:39:05,820 --> 00:39:06,820 You've seen that? 478 00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:08,740 Yes. 479 00:39:10,780 --> 00:39:12,260 I will not buy your love. 480 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:13,960 I want a cardinal's hat. 481 00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:18,720 I was 25 before I became... You've given one to Alexander Farnese. Do I come 482 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:19,820 second to the brother of your whore? 483 00:39:20,180 --> 00:39:21,180 You're afraid of me? 484 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,500 You're not eligible for the college. 485 00:39:26,250 --> 00:39:32,530 You are illegitimate. I am what my mother made me and may be what you 486 00:39:33,110 --> 00:39:34,110 You're Pope. 487 00:39:36,510 --> 00:39:41,670 We are Pope and carry the world upon our shoulders like a patient has. 488 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:48,070 We hold the future of the Holy See in trembling hands. 489 00:39:49,990 --> 00:39:53,330 We face the dark and weep for all men. 490 00:39:56,620 --> 00:40:01,980 When Ferrandi of Naples dies, as he shortly will, France and Spain will 491 00:40:01,980 --> 00:40:03,780 in the belly of Italy unless I prevent it. 492 00:40:05,980 --> 00:40:10,320 Pray for me, my friend. And my brother, the Duke of Gandia, is to be your 493 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,260 captain general. Your brother Juan goes to Spain, in Lucrezia's word, as our 494 00:40:14,260 --> 00:40:18,800 envoy, and will himself marry anyone they have to offer in Aragon. 495 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,860 By Lucrezia's marriage, we shall have its forces army between us. 496 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,140 And the greed of trust. You see, I take you to my confidence and trust. 497 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:29,480 What trust? 498 00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:34,180 I have waited and waited and waited for you to send for me, and still I am kept 499 00:40:34,180 --> 00:40:35,180 from Rome. 500 00:40:36,380 --> 00:40:40,680 Juan attends your courts, holding hands with an Ottoman savage. 501 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000 This gem is a hostage. 502 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:46,720 The Sultan pays us 40 ,000 ducats a year to keep him here. I have a better way 503 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:47,618 with Turks. 504 00:40:47,620 --> 00:40:48,740 Release me from my office. 505 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:50,920 I'll offer my sword to the Knights of Rhodes. 506 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:53,600 If you wish. 507 00:41:01,670 --> 00:41:02,670 you well. 508 00:41:02,870 --> 00:41:08,050 Out Caesar, out Nullus. This shall be Caesar or nothing. 509 00:41:13,370 --> 00:41:15,830 There was a reason you were kept in Rome. 510 00:41:16,870 --> 00:41:19,550 The cardinal has been examining your legitimacy. 511 00:41:20,110 --> 00:41:23,830 They have decided you are the lawful son of the lady Manotta by her first 512 00:41:23,830 --> 00:41:26,950 husband. We shall issue a bull according to the door of a brothel. 513 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:36,880 My second beau, private and unpromoted, shall acknowledge you as our son. 514 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,520 It will give me great joy. 515 00:41:45,340 --> 00:41:48,000 Do I get a cardinal's hat? 516 00:41:48,540 --> 00:41:49,540 Of course. 517 00:41:58,790 --> 00:41:59,970 Say more than that, Jesus. 518 00:42:01,670 --> 00:42:02,670 I brought you a gift. 519 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,260 Where is your brother, Cesare? 520 00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:14,740 Not here, as you can see. 521 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,860 Does he love you no more? 522 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,820 You saw him at our wedding today. 523 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:24,000 Yes. Sit clean at the thought of your marriage bed. 524 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:25,240 Hold your tongue. 525 00:43:56,650 --> 00:43:57,850 Nobly honored by you. 526 00:43:58,390 --> 00:44:00,050 This plate was your gift. 527 00:44:01,090 --> 00:44:03,490 Proclaimed a rubies from your brother Ludovico, I believe. 528 00:44:04,010 --> 00:44:08,310 A pity that, um, a fever, is it, keeps him from Rome? 529 00:44:11,290 --> 00:44:12,290 Ludovico. 530 00:44:14,810 --> 00:44:16,610 You were not present at the wedding. 531 00:44:17,270 --> 00:44:19,430 I avoid the infection of other men's others. 532 00:44:20,470 --> 00:44:22,390 And how is your nephew, the Duke? 533 00:44:23,130 --> 00:44:24,130 A languishing. 534 00:44:25,710 --> 00:44:29,170 If Ferranti of Naples wants to knock my head and dispute my right to the 535 00:44:29,170 --> 00:44:33,230 dukedom, I'll open the gates of Milan and loose the French at his throat. 536 00:44:34,770 --> 00:44:37,790 France's claim to the throne of Naples is past history. 537 00:44:38,890 --> 00:44:41,170 And Ferranti is not yet dead, Ludovico. 538 00:44:41,810 --> 00:44:42,810 But dying. 539 00:44:43,050 --> 00:44:44,050 Thank God. 540 00:44:44,870 --> 00:44:46,930 He's nominated his son as successor. 541 00:44:47,330 --> 00:44:52,370 And I, Charles of France, having reminded the nasty little ape of his 542 00:44:52,370 --> 00:44:53,370 Naples. 543 00:44:53,390 --> 00:44:54,530 Spain will contest it. 544 00:44:56,170 --> 00:44:57,510 and Rodrigo Borja. 545 00:45:58,480 --> 00:45:59,520 Take her to bed. 546 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:04,320 No, 547 00:46:05,300 --> 00:46:08,120 no, no. 548 00:46:12,820 --> 00:46:14,300 You forgot the contract. 549 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:15,600 The contract? 550 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,500 The lady Lucretia is too young for the duties of marriage. 551 00:46:20,020 --> 00:46:22,900 In a year, she'll be all you desire. 552 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,100 It's an excellent portello on the Campo Masso. 553 00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:32,960 If you wish, my chamberlain can direct it. 554 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,480 You know, Spain will direct the conscience of that Catalan bull. 555 00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,240 But he will make them pay for it. 556 00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:46,220 When will Charles come? 557 00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:52,700 If the runty obliges us by dying before Christmas, there'll be French lancers in 558 00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:53,940 our olive groves by spring. 559 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,120 But will they unseat Rodrigo? 560 00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,620 And in favour of whom? 561 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:06,220 Your eminence must now earn his 200 ,000 ducats. 562 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:12,560 Thus has the authority of the church become so debased that there is more 563 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,200 honesty among thieves and more virtue among harlots. 564 00:47:16,020 --> 00:47:20,560 We have seen great offices used to gratify lust and greed, 565 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:25,620 title and preferment distributed like playthings among children. 566 00:47:26,670 --> 00:47:33,390 We have seen the Cardinal of Valencia sent to Naples to dignify 567 00:47:33,390 --> 00:47:38,030 at his honest marriage between his baby brother Geoffrey and the daughter of 568 00:47:38,030 --> 00:47:42,590 Alfonso of Aragon, between one bastard and another. Oh, blow your tongue, 569 00:47:42,970 --> 00:47:43,970 Silence! 570 00:47:45,690 --> 00:47:48,770 Continue, but cautiously. 571 00:47:49,970 --> 00:47:51,930 Even a goater knows. 572 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,760 That this marriage and the other Spanish marriage of his brother Juan were 573 00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:02,900 payment for the recognition given by the Holy Chair to the fourth succession of 574 00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:05,320 the Spanish claimant to the throne of Naples. 575 00:48:06,660 --> 00:48:09,140 We were promised honesty and we've been fed with lies. 576 00:48:09,660 --> 00:48:13,440 We were promised an end to corruption and we choke in its stench. 577 00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:17,600 We were promised peace and we must now endure war. 578 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,800 Juliano. May I not speak? 579 00:48:25,230 --> 00:48:27,250 But the cities of the north are already in revolt. 580 00:48:27,730 --> 00:48:33,290 In every village, poor priests cry out against Rome's wickedness and call for 581 00:48:33,290 --> 00:48:34,290 avenging sword. 582 00:48:35,790 --> 00:48:37,270 It will come. 583 00:48:38,970 --> 00:48:44,510 This morning, I received news that the King of France will enter Italy when the 584 00:48:44,510 --> 00:48:45,510 passes are clear. 585 00:48:47,550 --> 00:48:51,270 And will advance upon Naples to remove the usurper. 586 00:48:52,780 --> 00:48:55,560 All roads to Naples must pass through Rome. 587 00:48:56,220 --> 00:49:01,200 And if Charles of France is opposed by the Holy See... 588 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,240 Ascani will speak. 589 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,200 Helens. 590 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,020 My brother Ludovico. 591 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:29,540 wishes me to inform this consistory that as duke of milan no 592 00:49:29,540 --> 00:49:36,320 he strangled your witless nephew as duke of milan and a true 593 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:42,920 servant of god and his conscience he feels obliged 594 00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,380 to offer the french all assistance to 595 00:49:52,810 --> 00:49:55,330 To cleanse St. Peter's chair! 596 00:49:55,570 --> 00:49:56,570 I refuse! 597 00:49:57,070 --> 00:49:58,750 I refuse! 598 00:49:59,070 --> 00:50:00,070 Silence! 599 00:50:08,190 --> 00:50:09,190 Silence! 600 00:50:10,310 --> 00:50:11,310 Silence! Silence! 601 00:50:16,730 --> 00:50:19,550 Have none of you been paid enough? 602 00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:23,860 get more from France? 603 00:50:24,900 --> 00:50:25,900 Will you? 604 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:34,680 You yelp and squeal like deflowered virgins. 605 00:50:36,020 --> 00:50:37,980 Am I to be frightened of that? 606 00:50:39,580 --> 00:50:41,140 I am Pope. 607 00:50:41,660 --> 00:50:42,660 I. 608 00:50:45,140 --> 00:50:50,880 If I must, I'll create a hundred new cardinals to replace you. 609 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:55,920 Test me. 610 00:50:57,820 --> 00:50:58,820 Test me! 611 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:06,200 And you'll see what manner of man is a bourgeois. 612 00:51:42,780 --> 00:51:47,960 Charles of France demands free passage through the Papal States and threatens 613 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,480 you with deposition if you refuse. 614 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:52,920 What will you do? 615 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,480 In the North, the people are shouting, Viva Francia! 616 00:51:58,740 --> 00:52:00,900 The priests declare that the sword has come. 617 00:52:01,380 --> 00:52:02,380 What will you do? 618 00:52:03,210 --> 00:52:06,230 Good sense obliged me to pray, I think. 619 00:52:06,910 --> 00:52:09,170 You have no force to resist. 620 00:52:09,570 --> 00:52:14,790 No. I believe they may conquer Rome with a few pieces of chalk they need to mark 621 00:52:14,790 --> 00:52:15,790 their billets. 622 00:52:16,770 --> 00:52:17,970 Send me to Naples. 623 00:52:20,430 --> 00:52:24,930 Right. Tell Alfonso to give me command of his army. Yes, commanders. 624 00:52:25,390 --> 00:52:26,510 With my approval. 625 00:52:28,250 --> 00:52:29,250 Who? 626 00:52:29,530 --> 00:52:30,710 Vincenio Fini. 627 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,180 And his sons, Paolo and Giovanni. 628 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:34,440 What do you mean? 629 00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:35,520 You fool. 630 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,060 Did you learn nothing from Schwarzer's treachery? 631 00:52:41,340 --> 00:52:42,700 You old fool!