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Pazzi's conspiracy had made unbearable the rivalry between...

...the Medici and the Church. Only after 8 years of war, in 1486...

...Lorenzo the Magnificent, the "balance of power", was able to...

...make peace with Rome.

Any time a war is over, our kingdom gets severely damaged.

A new catastrophic peace...

...makes the flow of damned souls painfully scanty now.

As I already did in other times during such sad circumstances of peace,...

...I decided to send one of our Princes into the living world,...

...so that there he can stir up a war again between Rome and Florence.

For such mission I chose Belfagor, the Super Devil Firestarter,...

...supervisor of gambling houses,...

...protector of unions between husbands and someone else's women,...

...charmer of all the women.

Let the Prince Belfagor appear under human semblances on Earth.

And thanks to the secret help of a servant invisible to all the mortals,...

...may he sow dissension between Rome and Florence.

And in 10 days at dawn,...

...may he come back here, along with a crash of a new war...

...and moans of its inevitable daughters, starvation and plague!

Adramelek!

Ah!...I'm here by your side, Belfagor!

Let's go.

How cold! How can they live here?

THE SUPER DEVIL

- Wake up! - I'm ready, where do we go, Rome or Florence?

I just want to stop off in an inn. I'm a man now!

- I need some food and a woman! - A woman!?

You're a devil, you can't appreciate!

Boss! Are you not feeling cold?

- Isn't there a way to warm up? - Sure!

To eat and lie with a woman.

- Do you only think of that? - Of course, I'm a man now!

All the men only think of that!

- Don't they think of money? - Sure.

Because when they have money they can do anything, they can eat...

...and lie with a woman!

- Well said! - Hold still, what are you doing?

Move or you'll fell cold. Can you swim?

- No, the water is cold! - A nice bathing is always good!

You stink of sulphur a mile off!

Be careful, lout! There's a devil into the fountain!

Well, they might stay better off down with us!

- Mom! - Idiot, what did you think you've seen, maybe a guardian angel?

This way, boss.

Shut up! I'm incognito!

I knew you'd have taken notice of that at once.

Of what?

The old man is awfully jealous.

And not to take risks, when they travel together,...

...he makes his wife dress up like a man.

Sure! Of course I noticed that she was a woman!

My respects, sir!

- Do you come from far away? - Much more than you can imagine.

Why are you laughing now, hunchback?

If I were you I'd hate all the men other than me.

I've pity on camels instead...

...because they have two humps, with no use of reason!

- Hunchback and idiot. - They say he brings good luck!

- Get me something to eat. Come on! - Yes sir, right off.

- She's Giovanna, she prostitute herself for 2 florins. - Well done, Giovanna.

- Do you know my name? - Yes, name and habits...

No, I prefer the reticent women. Maybe I'll devote to the young boy.

- Hey. - What?

- No. To get confused with a host's wife! - That's just what I want.

I've never seen anything of the kind. Not even amongst our lustful women.

Let's not exaggerate, she's a woman like the other ones...

What do you know about? Every wine is the same for a teetotaller.

No! The water is too cold!

Scared of flames, my love?

Olimpia!

- What are you doing? What's up? - Maybe I've blown too hard!

- Water! - Water?

- Ash! - Here! Ash is better.

Hurry up!

That's enough, burn out.

- I�m so sorry, I do beg your pardon... - Hey you, take your hands off my son!

- It's my fault and... - Do not touch him! Keep still!

I understand you're jealous.

Such a son must give a lot of satisfaction.

I'd keep him close to me day and night, by night most of all.

Adramelek!

- Watch the hunchback. - Yes, Belfagor.

Turn around and look at me.

Who are you? What do you want from me?

Let the pot off.

Come closer.

Very well and now...

...hold me in your arms.

- Call me Belfy. - Belfy?

Et cetera...

Hey.

I don't understand how you men come to enjoy it.

- Try here. - Here?

Come on.

No my love, it's enough for now.

My husband must be looking for me!

Oh my God, what have I done?

How will I confess that to father Eusebio?

- Tell him that the Devil tempted you. - Father Eusebio won't believe me.

A passenger has just arrived upstairs.

Franceschetto Cybo dell'Anguillara, Pope Innocenzo VIII's son.

- So what? - How?

To keep a long peace between Florence and Rome...

...he will get married with Lorenzo the Magnificent's daughter.

- Well done. - How?

We...

- Are we forgetting our mission again? - Right! Just a lapse of concentration.

A foot into the wine!

He comes back after studying for 16 years in a French monastery.

- He lived it up! - Here he is, that's him!

I was taking care of the seedlings, and I got a knock!

- An escort will take him to Florence. - Understood.

You're hurting me, for devil's horns!

Uh mine! Not yours?

- It may be cold. Do I heat it for you? - No, thanks. I do it by myself.

- What does he keep into his luggage? - A pair of trousers, two shirts...

A thousand florins, 4 hankies, a book, a deck of tarots...

Have you said tarots?

Did I? Yeah. Why?

Even Beelzebub is afraid of me as a gambler.

A week ago I won a thousand florins over him on beggar-my-neighbour!

They say luck is blind, but you could show up.

Wind may change. I'm feeling that next game will be yours.

Would you like to double the stakes?

- Agreed. - Fine.

- I'm relying on your instinct. - That was clever!

Here you don't know tobacco yet.

Hey.

Ok, I'll give you 2 florins.

- Which is your room? - Number 6. Come quickly, I'm tired.

- I want to sleep. - Number 6.

He's picking up the 9!

- This time he's going to win... - 9! Hermit.

Oh, is it you? I'm so sorry.

10. Luck. I'm very sorry.

I had not to agree to double the stakes.

Do not worry for such a little amount.

I've played with fire... and I've got burned.

- That's all. - Maybe playing another hand...

- You might get even. - Even if I wanted...

I haven't got a florin anymore and then....

...I need to get some air.

Enjoy my florins with no remorse.

Don't worry. My conscience is so indulgent.

It's late.

Good night.

You may go to bed, I'm having some warm wine and I'm coming.

- If you like... - Hush. You must not speak!

If you speak they'll find out you're a woman, go!

What do you want more from me?

To give you the possibility to get your revenge.

Providing I've the courage to.

My luggage is 300 florins worth.

And don't you own anything else?

I'm waiting for an escort from Rome with weapons, clothes and luggage.

- If I've to, I'll gamble them. - You won't have to.

What could I do? He must have chosen the wrong room.

He got into bed and held me tight.

He gave me 2 florins and left.

So do you put it that way? Couldn't you be against him?

- Or ask for help? - If I spoke, he'd have realized I was a woman.

No.

It can't turn out that way.

- I must get even. Let's play again! - It's the best I could ask for.

I can't. I don't have anything else.

Yes, you've something else instead.

Your life.

How much...

...is a man's life possibly worth in your opinion?

Nothing. But it's the only good you've left.

And I'm here to favour you.

Your life versus everything I've already won over you.

Agree! You ought to!

- Cards! - Oh!

Couldn't you choose a place drier than this?

13.

Death.

15. Devil.

I'm very sorry.

My poor friend.

You haven't got a sword either. I'll lend you mine.

But you...why?

Because you've lost and you're a man of honour.

Wait for a while.

Nothing. I'm sorry.

Suicide on the eve of his marriage!

He has had an unlucky evening, so to say.

We're looking for the Prince Francesco Cybo, Lord of Anguillara.

Here I am.

- A prince? - I'm giving you regards from Rome.

And the blessing by your father.

Francesco Cybo is most honoured.

Actually I don't give a damn about that.

If we had known he was a prince, we'd have treated him better.

He was well treated, don't worry.

Lower the insignia!

This night I've just lost a dear and generous friend.

That's Don Urbano, the papal legate.

He has not been seeing you for 16 years.

Franceschetto!

Let me take a look at you!

- You've become a man! - Yes, since yesterday!

16 years in France must have changed me a bit.

Perhaps, but you don't seem to me...

However...yes,...

...your eyes are not changed. You're still the same.

And your smile is unmistakable!

He's lower than me even wearing his hat.

The day you left seems like yesterday. Do you memember my nickname?

- Dotard! - Sure!

- Which was my nickname? - Let's go, Florence is far away.

- Yes, it is. - Come on.

- Take and share it with everyone! - Generous as always!

Well, yes.

Charity first of all.

"Caritas sante omnia", as says the...

Thank the Sultan of Cairo for the superb gift...

...of these two...camels or dromedaries?

Dromedaries, Magnificent Lorenzo.

Tell him that amongst the gifts my daughter was given,...

...this is the most unexpected for sure.

And it's also the most difficult to accomodate.

- Are these your lines? - Yes. - Wonderful!

"Youth is sweet and well but doth speed away,...

...let who will be gay, tomorrow, none can tell.

Bacchus and his Fair, contented with their fate..."

What a sublime poem!

Excellent lines, totally worth...

...of the best poet I've ever met down there, Horace.

- Did you meet Horace? - In a manner of speaking...

- Down there at hell? - No, over there at Rome.

When I was a boy, on my books.

Have you heard, Clarice?

I was not hoping in a son-in-law comparing me with Horace!

You've captured him...

Amongst all the vices, writing poems is the most harmless,...

...but also the most incurable one.

It seems that Lorenzo is always getting into mischief!

This is one of his lovers.

Delicious. Thanks, it's enough.

How is Lorenzo's daughter?

You wouldn't know her from a servant.

Excuse me...

- May I make a female bedeviled? - No, we're on duty.

To my joy I've reached Florence...

And that's Giovanni, my son...

...whom the Pope, your father, has honoured making him cardinal.

Precocious career, actually.

Dad, I don't like him.

Don't worry, he hasn't surely asked for your hand.

Tell me, what is that guy doing?

- Does he write everything you say? - Everything. Any word.

- All day long. He's my biographer. - How convenient.

- Last sentence of yesterday night? - "Go to bed, I'll catch up with you."

Said to his wife or to Lucrezia?

- To Lucrezia, but I didn't reach her. - Fit of drowsiness?

I made a date with another one, the woman dressed in white.

"Let who will be gay..." Rascal!

Here's Maddalena!

Only your bleary eye of a servant...

...could compare such a goddness to a servant.

Goddness? Our tastes are quite different.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

I knew I was going to marry the Magnificent's daughter...

...but I wouldn't have ever expected she was even a Venus' daughter.

Maddalena, show your fianc� that you're not mute.

Understandable emotion.

Shut up.

Show Lord Cybo your roses.

He may suggest some names for them.

Midges...

- She uses to christen the roses as soon they blossom. - Delicate drive.

- I'll suggest Clarice for the nicest one. - It's perfect for a radish!

Stay here.

- What a man! - How ardent!

- How handsome he is! - And tall.

And strong!

On a female balance the things that matter...

The things that matter?

...are those virtues which you've no merit to own at all.

Reveal a thing to me, Maddalena.

Are you silent by nature or by a secret melancholy?

By idiocy! All the stupid women seem melancholic.

That's why I've nothing to tell you. I don't know you.

- I neither chose nor I like you. - It'll be hard!

We can talk about harvest forecasts.

Exciting topic!

It seems that it'll be poor in Tuscany. And in Latium?

Excellent.

Not so much wheat, maybe, but a lot of blooming weed.

- Does this marriage weight on you too? - To be honest, yes.

I must marry a kind of woman whose face I use to slap.

If the first thing will be easy for you...

... the second one should be fatal: I'd kill you.

Don't move, Maddalena.

Turn about.

Come closer.

Ahead. Ahead again...

Maddalena!

It's a wedding present, it was sent by the Lords of Milan.

A quite unusual ball.

Such a sphere that, thrown to the ground, leaps out at your hands!

- If kicked, it flies lightly. - Let me try, make room, eminence.

To me!

Hey!

Wonderful! It's leaping upwards without landing!

Actually it didn't do that before!

A childish but funny toy, actually.

Pass!

To me!

- Take that! - Mine!

Pass!

To me!

Pass me the ball!

Giovanni, the ball!

- Be careful! - Excuse me...Pass here!

Goal!

Pass me the ball! Go through!

- Mark him! - Come away!

- I'm kicking again! - Go away!

- Handball! - My dad has fallen!

- Free kick here. - Ok, free kick.

- No, here. - What are you doing?

- Prince, it's here. - No!

Referee, he's pushing me!

- Magnificent... - The ball must be here. I decide.

Come, let's make a wall!

What are you writing? Hold on.

- Pass me it again. - Here.

Pass it.

Fake a pass.

Pass!

3 goals for Rome! Get up captain, what are you doing?

- I've been pushed. - Rough but virile play. Come on!

Maddalena. I'm sorry.

- I've neglected you... - I thought you were with him.

They dragged me off...

The ball...

- Mine! - No, mine!

Let go! Release!

Are they leaving us alone to run after a ball?

My fi�nce...

...has left me at the park.

At Milan Duke Sforza plays with that thing on the road.

Every game lasts for a short time. In a year the ball will be forgotten.

Do you, Francesco Cybo dell'Anguillara,...

...want to accept as your legitimate wife...

...Maddalena de' Medici who is here with us?

No!

No!

If I must choose between his daughter and war,...

...war is my choice!

Why are you afraid of war? Wake up!

Fight, Fiorentine cowards!

Let's go.

- Stop! - No. I'm in a hurry.

Stop that man!

Follow me!

Come you too!

- Maybe he forgot the ring. - It must be a big one, if 20 persons are needed!

Hey, boss!

- This way! - Maddalena is looking for a husband!

Here he is!

This way! To the door!

Be quick!

Don't move!

- Help! - Are you afraid of a machine?

It must have been the Roman guy.

- Brillant inference! - Catch him!

- Put me down! - If you like...

- Look for a staircase! - Right away, captain!

I'll provide you with one! Here it is!

There are the drawings of these machines!

"Equilibrium on an inclined plane.

If a load exceeds the center of a plane,...

...this will be reversing its own position."

End of proof!

Captain, do you think it's decent to you? At your time of life!

- Are you hating me? - You got it right.

That's why first you were marrying my woman and then why you offended her!

How complicated you soldiers are!

What are you doing, are you mad?

- Sorry, it was just a try! - Must you have a try just with me?

- Idiot! - Always idiot!

"The degree of bending of a beam...

...is proporzional to the cube of the radius."

Hence a devil on a beam is heavier than the cube of the radius!

No, not the water! It's too cold!

Look how many machines!

A helicopter, a giant crossbow, a parachute, a tank!

A revolving bridge, a multiple cannon, bombs!

This Leonardo is a prodigious...

...inventor and joins our side, no doubt.

- That's a machine for flying! - For flying?

Like the angels up above!

- Also this one is for flying. - But that's a cannon.

I do tell you that's the way it is, come on!

- Get in, you'll make a cool flight. - Wait.

Like the little angels!

It's a test. Don't you trust?

A bit of asthma, captain? It must be for your age.

How nice drawing! Who are these ones?

I only know this guy. He stays with us at suicides' department.

I won 30 coins over him at Lansquenet.

- Go! - Into the tank!

The door!

Sons of bitches! Cowards!

You're getting defeated by one man alone!

One man alone? They seem to be 100!

- See you later, boss. - Keep the people company.

Give me something. Our Lady will be blessing you from up above.

That would surprise me. I'm not so popular up above.

Well done! All right.

I'll give you something.

But you've to do me a favour this evening.

As soon as you come, tell Beelzebub that everything is going well here.

- As soon as I come to where? - Where you deserve.

Fake blind man.

Here he is. Silence.

But this is the blind man!

The refusal by that Roman guy is part of a hateful plan by Rome.

Let's restart a war against Pope right now!

It's unfair! Rome has nothing to do with that!

I'm Roman too. I can marry Maddalena tomorrow!

If you live until tomorrow!

We're not here to find out a husband for a girl whom I'd marry for first.

I say and I ask everybody to say one word: war!

- Yes, war! - No, peace!

- War! - Pope is blameless.

It was a provocation!

Ouch!

Let me know when you get up!

Mr counsellors, if in Florence today there's a man ...

...who has to feel offended and humiliated more than the others,...

...that's actually me.

However, don't forget that dissensions between two cities...

...are not good for the both of them.

Dissensions expose Italy to the danger...

...that some foreign peacemaker will come here.

The weapon of an invader and...

...the soul of a plunderer use to hide in disguise of an arbiter.

So, the best victory in every war is peace.

He may have pacifist ideas, but he can speak well.

But Council is sovereign.

Let's count the votes.

Peace or war?

I do begin!

- War! - One.

War!

Peace!

War!

War!

Peace!

- Peace! - I don't share at all...

...the advice by counsellors supporting war.

I totally agree with the Magnificent's advice...

...and in the name of a fraternal coexistence with Rome...

-...I say... - War!

War!

Now that our mission is over, let's come back home!

I've got enough centuries on my shoulders to decide by myself.

Do what you want, I've made a commitment. Have a good journey.

When he doesn't need me, it means he made commitments of female sort!

All over these past centuries, I've only pushed some idiots...

- Is he talking to himself? - He's mad or drunken.

...into lustful women's arms!

And men do curse me, then!

They say: it's devil's fault! It's my merit in case, isn't it?

Now that I've got a body too, once and for all...

...I want to tempt myself.

- And I'm glad that you agree. - No! Yes!

What are you doing, are you pushing me?

Boozer! If you come back home again...

-...I'll throw you out of the window! - Let's see if she'll be of her word.

Out of the window... I'm going away...

No!

She was of her word.

Ah!

You again!

Thanks to you, war will start again. What do you want now?

I don't usually leave off things in the middle.

Do not move.

And turn about.

No.

- I don't want... - I said: turn about and look at me.

- What's happening to me? - Now hold me in your arms.

Join your lips to mine.

But not here. They could catch us.

It wouldn't be good for my honour or for your life.

You've to lose the both of them,...

-...sooner or later, Maddalena. - No!

Wait here.

When I'll give a signal,...

...you may come up fearlessly.

I told servants not to disturb me until tomorrow morning.

You're still completely dressed up... I thought I was going to find you...

A woman'd better show dressed up to her loved man.

For the pleasure of getting undressed by him.

Your pleasure won't exceed mine for sure, my dear.

Just as a lover picks petals off a daisy,...

...I'll pick one by one petals covering you...

...like the wind spoiling the plane trees...

...during fall!

No, please let me get undressed by myself.

As you like...

Turn about, be polite.

- I never did that. - Ok, I'll count up to 10.

- No, up to 20! - Let's do 12, agreed?

1...2...3...

...4...5...6...

...7...8...9...10...

...11...12!

Maddalena! How different you look!

You look better, of course!

How many people! Wasn't I enough for you?

Arrest him!

Too many men for a virgin's bed!

- Hey! - Don't kill him.

My father wants him to be locked in Bargello's prison.

Have you seen? Never turn your back on a woman!

- Take him away! - Did you want to captivate me by your gaze?

Why not, it usually works.

Did you have this on your neck at the garden too?

That's why you could resist!

- Come! - Here we are, captain!

Wouldn't be better to give me a piggyback?

You know, around here they say...

...that women are more clever than devil!

It's really true!

A super devil in jail like a thief of cheeses!

No, boss! That's not decent!

That pig of Gianfigliazzo is whiping a heretic.

He's a sorcerer and says he can talk with ghosts and other oddities.

Nice music!

Nice people!

It's damp here, we're risking a pneumonia.

- Let's escape and come back home? - Shut up, worm! How spineless!

Even a man would take revenge! And I'm the Devil, remember!

He does think of damp!

Are you tired of telling fibs, sorcerer?

Hello, grandpa!

No, don't move! Look!

There's the devil on the wall!

- He has seen you! - So much the worse for him!

He's close to the wall! He laughs! Smoke is coming out of his mouth!

He's all red, can't you see him?

- What should we see? - Up there on the wall!

- The devil! A small and deformed one! - Yes, he has really seen you.

- Again? Take him back in there! - No, sir!

- He was talking with the devil! - What?

- You were talking with him! - What? I never did it!

- No, never! - Take him away!

They will whip me again! Devil, please show yourself to them!

- I don't do favours. - Believe me!

- They didn't trust him. - Beautiful, well done!

Hard like a stone, all naked!

- What to do then? - Wait!

I�ve got an idea that Florentine people will like a lot, I think.

We're informing the Florentine people...

...that Maddalena de' Medici will appear naked...

...in public...

...due to an action by the Prince Franceschetto Cybo dell'Anguillara.

The Florentine people, able to appreciate such shows,...

...be in front of Medici's palace at 5 am.

Please don't bring childs with you.

- Naked? Tonight? - Have you heard?

- Can this be possible? - They did make the announcement!

- All naked! - Didn't you ever see a naked woman?

- Not leaning out of the window. - I have no idea!

Maddalena naked? I can't believe it.

Not even me. Rubbish.

- What time did he say? - At 5 am, after dusk.

We've got time. You know what?

I'm setting off for going there.

...due to an action by the Prince Franceschetto Cybo dell'Anguillara.

The Florentine people, able to appreciate such shows,...

...be in front of Medici's...

- Who did give you the permission? - That's the announcement you gave me!

You're a liar! Whip him, so that he'll learn to read!

Take him away!

He's right. He was actually reading what's written!

I see. But lashes are good for everybody.

I don't how, but that's a trick by that Roman guy!

My announcement was promulgating his arrest instead.

Anyway, that's not my handwriting.

- It seems written by a yokel. - You're a yokel instead!

No!

You're wasting your time, captain!

Harder!

Tonight you'll be breaking your appointment for sure!

Yet, tonight, at midnight, I'll be at Medici's palace!

- Your plans are postponed. - Think of whiping!

Pumpkin seeds! Holy wine!

- I've already got it. - So don't buy it!

As far I remember, such a large amount of Florentine people...

...has been never gathering here so far.

- Neither at Easter nor... - Viewer!

What are you fool waiting for?

Viewer!

- Go home! - Help your eyesight! Viewer!

- Even a viewer! - Viewer!

What is it for?

- Can I try it? - Please do it. Close an eye of yours.

- It really makes things come closer. How much is it? - Half a coin.

- Make way! There's an old man! - He wants to watch too.

He's old and widowed. Make way!

- Move! - Some respect please!

He knew he couldn't fulfil...

...his outrageous threat!

But the Roman guy clearly knew...

...the souls of Florentine people, their natural...

...inclination to vice and lust!

- You could see better by day. - To the window on the left.

Next, please.

To the first window on the right. Next, please.

- To the second window on the right. - But it's overcrowded!

That's my home, not Pitti palace!

Squeeze up so that you can enter.

You, to the second window on the left.

If I were fire, I would burn the world.

If I were wind, I would bestorm it, if I were water, I would drown it.

If I were God, I would hurl it into the deep!

If I were Pope, I would be happy,...

...as I would harry all Christians.

If I were emperor, do you know what I would do?

- Silence! - I would chop off the heads of you!

What's this noise?

I can't hear anything... Well, yes. Maybe a woodworm!

The well known prison worm, or the stone worm.

The stone worm?

Hey, boss. Try to fix this beast before it's too late.

Come back home, foolish Florentine people!

Foolish and blind! Which award...

- Can you hear him? Come away. - He's still there though.

- She won't lean out naked. - I know.

- So why do you stay here? - For your good.

- What do you mean? - If I go away and then she appears...

...I'll strangle you, my dear.

Shame on you! Go back home!

Florentine people, you're being bewitched...

...by these carnival jokes!

How many nitwits for a jester in the vein of jokes!

Go away!

Princes' accidents have always been the favourite...

- Yes, I'm ready. -...the favourite entertainment for people.

I'm feeling that nothing will happen.

We're already here instead.

I admit that such a revenge by the Roman guy doesn't lack imagination.

I already knew you were a paltry husband,...

...but I ignored you were even a degenerate father.

- I'm leaving off. - Here, you're doing well.

Good night.

- Good night. - And he gets up again!

Go away! Even the dog now!

- What did you do to it? - Nothing.

Now you can get up as you like.

It's better to be a half-hearted than a foolish man, Luke says.

These are not your usual readings though!

You, Florentine people, will be laughed at for a long time!

The Roman guy has escaped!

It won't ever happen...

...what God didn't approve!

- What's happening? - Nothing, friar.

God let the Roman Guy escape from Bargello's prison.

The Roman guy has escaped!

What's the matter with the both of you this evening?

Actually I'd get excited, not you.

Captain.

Tonight you're also restless more than is necessary.

- Did the Roman guy happen to escape? - A jail was not enough for him.

He wants to die.

I must leave two soldiers here.

And another couple of them in my bed, perhaps? Get out at once! Everyone!

I'm sorry but I must insist!

You, go up to the staircase. You, stay here.

What good does it do talking with deaf people?

A voice crying out in the desert!

What will be will be! To save you I can't damn myself!

Make way, dirty rudes!

Did he stumble?

Make way, dirty rudes!

Are you waiting for the Roman guy?

To see what? The flesh?

Here the flesh is! What a shame!

Cover yourself up, or God's wrath will burn you to ashes!

Cover yourself up and regret! All of you regret!

Make way you too!

I've to go to Clarice and pray!

Stop him! It's me brother Domenico!

The man who hit me has come in!

Stop him!

- Stop! - You know, I'm on time. There's a few minutes to go before midnight.

It's the time of your death!

Who tried to give me death, he was given death by me then!

Be careful, captain! The whip is cracking!

I told you!

It was him!

Calm down or you'll hurt yourself!

- I'll take care of that, captain... - Cuckoo!

Well done, boss! You're getting away with it very well!

Also without my help!

- Fool! Dwarf! - Son of a bitch!

I didn't know I had got a captain as a brother!

You're a flock of sheep!

Come in. There's a secret passage here.

Enhance surveillance!

Keep everyone from going out!

You, watch the stairs, the others come with me!

You're safe here.

- Lucrezia... - Do not apologize.

My eyes have been often inviting you.

- Sweet creature! - Without you asking for permission.

To think of you encouraged me to escape.

Didn't you escape for Maddalena?

Maddalena?

Why should I want a chrysalis when I can get a butterfly?

- Nothing here. - Franceschetto!

And not even here.

- My hair is a mess! - Hurry up!

We've a lot of time!

Look these ones!

Let's see...

Hey! What about that secret passage?

- I can't find it. - How come?

It's too secret. By your leave.

- You're an angel! - Angel! You're going too far!

Hey! The door!

The flower too?

It must be Lorenzo.

- I've seen he was coming here. - Lorenzo?

Really, also tonight?

Be quick, this way.

Stay here until I'll open.

- Wait silently. - Silently...

As if I weren't here!

Goodbye sweetie. Cloak!

Get in.

I said, get in!

Go, it's one minute to midnight.

- I want a big apocalyptic concert. - Leave it to me.

- Start! - 60... 59... 58...

57... 56... 55...

He must go over our dead bodies to get in!

7... 6...5...4... But it's unfair!

He's feeling hot and I'm feeling cold instead! 3...2...1...Start!

Where did you get in through?

No! Strip me! I'm ready!

I promised a dream, not a nightmare!

You won't dare! You won't touch her!

No, not on the bed!

You'll have my body, but not my soul! Saint Agnes, defend my honour!

Just a moment and I'll be with you. What are you doing with that sword?

Be good!

You said a woman'd better show yourself dressed up to the man she loves...

...for the pleasure of getting undressed.

Our last meeting was a bit hasty unfortunately...

Now I'm here for that pleasure.

Coward! If I were a man you wouldn't do that.

Stripping a man is for nitwits!

Don't touch me!

I'm sorry! Anyway...

...slipping a burning dress off is not so improper.

It's better to burn alive than getting undressed in front of you!

You're too beautiful, I can't allow that. May I?

So you will burn with me too!

Just as a lover picks petals off a daisy,...

...I'll pick one by one the burning petals covering you.

Fire is burning you...and makes you more beautiful.

Come.

Remove your hair!

Help!

Open! Beat it down!

To the other door! Beat it down!

Goodbye, Maddalena. You won't have to be afraid of me anymore.

Neither here nor elsewhere.

They're waiting for me at dawn at the crossroads of the Torraccia.

I'll make a long journey which will lead me...

...far away from you, from Florence,...

...from the world, from everything.

- Good luck. - Hey, boss!

How long it took you!

They have stripped us naked!

Catch the Roman guy!

Ungrateful people!

Quick! This way!

Look what I've brought to you!

Come on! Wear it as a cloak.

It's the flying machine by Leonardo. Did you try it out?

- Never. - What about if I fall down?

- It means that Leonardo is insane. - So...

Give me the rope. The hand!

Idiot!

Come on, turn over the wing!

Quick! Give me!

Be careful! Don't fly too high!

Calm. Up above I wouldn't be welcomed so well.

- In the name of the father, son... - What?

A little diversion! Here he is again!

I go!

Thanks to Leonardo!

One Roman guy alone has made fun of you.

And repeatedly, captain.

I'm scared of thinking of what will happen tomorrow...

...when you've to face a whole army.

I'm not afraid of war.

Incapacity is forgivable,...

...but not presumption. You're far from being short on the both of them.

If only knew where to find him out!

I know. He'll be at dawn at the crossroads of the Torraccia.

- Are you sure? - Yes.

Capture him! He's a coward!

To take advantage of a poor girl!

Give me 3 hours of time and let a scaffold be built.

- For whom? - For Francesco Cybo.

Forget this night, my daughter.

Yes, Maddalena. Pureness is never obscene.

When I say a nice sentence, the biographer is always missing!

You may go.

- Maddalena... - Go...

Captain, if you help me on taking revenge,...

...you'll be allowed to ask me for everything.

If your love will be my award, consider the Roman guy as already dead.

You've time until dawn...

- Maddalena... - You already deserve a part of your award...

Very well done! You looked like a swallow!

Release me!

Come on, hurry up!

Release me....ouch!

Since I released you, it's sure you'd have been falling down!

We're going back home! For how things went...

...we'll be given a triumphant welcome!

Tomorrow the Pope's army will be fighting against Florence.

All the credits go to you of course.

But you don't seem very satisfied, you did really a good job instead.

You've nothing to reproach yourself for.

But you won't want to ruin all the evil done...

...by a feeling not worthy of you!

- What do you mean? - If love is often the man's ruin,...

...it'd be the most disgraceful end for a devil.

- Be careful! - What's up?

I knew you'd have arrived!

- We must go away! - Just the last earthly satisfaction!

I knew we'd have settled a score with each other! By yourselves!

Kill him!

This morning you're in decline, captain!

- Come on, get up. - He's also playing the gentleman!

What are you doing, do you push? What are you doing, do you pull?

Yes, we're wasting our time!

Will we go?

- No pressure! - It's almost dawn!

Kill him, you had enough fun. Stop exchanging endearments!

The only regret is that I'll meet him forever down below with us!

This idiot!

But it's Maddalena! It's sure you beat like a man!

- Hey! It's Maddalena! - Leave her alive, if you like.

- Let's go, it's already dawn. - Go, then I'll reach you.

- Without you? - It's an order!

- I must let you remember that... - You must not bother me!

But at the dawn of the 10th day...

You've really bothered me now, go to hell!

- Yes, sir, sure, I go! - Go away!

Hey! Maddalena!

Again?

Coward, kill me! Seeing you is worse than a dagger!

I don't want your death. You wanted to kill me.

Yes, but you won and I don't want your mercy.

After honour, take my life off! Kill me, coward!

Anger makes you more beautiful, captain.

All kinds of things go on around here! It's the night of the witches!

Maddalena, what's happened?

Did the Roman guy strip you too?

- It was your mistress! - Where may she have gone?

She has fooled me!

You'll have my body but not my soul!

Saint Agnes, make me a saint!

Saint Hillary, protect the honour...

...of my heart.

A hour ago I wanted to kill you, now I feel I can't live without you.

It's absurd, I'm also feeling the same.

- And don't you like it? - Yes. That is, no...

I mean, this shouldn't have happened to one like me.

Why? Didn't you ever fall in love?

Who, me? Are you kidding?

I used to live in a never ending state of hate!

A May bug. How nice.

In a never ending state of hate?

Strange things have been happening to me since a short time.

I've made up my mind. If you like, I'm ready...

...to deny my faith for you... ...and to kick against my superiors.

Which faith, which superiors? Franceschetto!

Be strong, my real name is Belfagor,...

...the super devil, prince of darkness, king of chaos.

I don't understand you, but I like what you say.

My Belfagor!

- You're doing evil to me! - You've betrayed me again!

It hasn't been me this time, I swear!

There's more poison in your kiss than in a snakebite!

All right!

I'm at your disposal, my heroic and stubborn captain.

Be careful with those heads!

Hello, Florentine people!

Hello, fathers, brothers and sons of well known whores!

We'll meet again in hell and you'll see that my fire...

...is more burning than yours!

You'll see!

Excuse me, is here the stake for Franceschetto Cybo?

- Brother... - Save your breath, brother.

My body has no fear of this world and my soul doesn't take care of the other one.

Have you got it? Thanks.

As soon as you're feeling hot, you'll cry!

You're wrong, no moan.

- You'll have to shut up in hell! - What do you know about it?

So I'll be coming back home. Be quick, I'm late!

Who are you, the executioner's son?

Do I place myself here? Fine!

How beautiful day! How nice people!

What a great welcome! Big audience, big show!

Death to the Medici's enemy!

- Remember who is your father! - It's better to be dead than married!

So make up you mind, I'll do the honours for you!

Lorenzo!

Excuse me, Lorenzo the Magnificent!

May you free my hand? I'd like to greet. Thanks.

Have a good time, you, your women and your coaxers.

I'm only asking you not to write your awful lines...

...on the occasion of my death!

- Only dying men are sincere. - Speak aloud!

Your last wish will be granted.

Many thanks! Obliged! Thanks to everybody!

I hope you'll have a good time like me!

I'm ready! Executioner, you're tardy and slow!

Light a fire! Goodbye, captain!

- It must be ugly to burn in summer. - Well, also in winter!

- You stripped her, now burn! - The place is getting warm.

Have fun! Die young and you will stay young!

- I want to live 1,000 years! - You're handsome, Roman guy!

Don't cry, we'll meet again! I'm not saying goodbye, but see you soon!

Adramelek! You're a true friend!

You couldn't be missing this party in my honour!

We're all here! How nice idea...

They want me to be burnst, to be consumed by flames!

That's a man, not you!

You've been complaining of a little burn for a week!

She calls it a little burn!

Well, what's up with you?

What's happening? Why that look on your face?

Oh!

Where are you? Adramelek!

He has disappeared!

So what? Do you like the show?

Nothing much. I told you.

Your behaviour filled the supreme boss with indignation.

So he took the diabolical powers away from you...

...condemning you to be a mere mortal.

- Have you said, sorry? - You'll feel the fire's claws.

You'll roast like a leg of lamb.

- From now on. - Please, don't leave me on my own!

- Don't leave me! - What did I tell you? He's afraid too.

Adramelek!

Do something, help me out!

- I do order you! - I can do nothing at this point!

- Where are you? - He can neither see nor hear me anymore.

Don't leave me on my own!

Put the fire out! It's burning!

Do you leave me on my own? I come with you!

"Brother fire, sister death..." then you're also running away!

Hail Mary full of grace. Mea culpa!

Florentine people, I love you! I've even picked up your accent!

Bring the buckets and put the fire out!

Maddalena! You've come!

Glad to see you. Goodbye.

What are you doing? Do not come up! Do not come closer!

Please! Don't do it!

- Let me die! - I'll die with you.

It's pointless!

- Do you trust me now? - I do.

Lorenzo, suspend the execution or it'll be too late.

It's better one marriage than two funerals.

- Only the Council can suspend. - Shut up, fool.

- There's no time for the Council. - So, justice be done.

Stop. Set the condemned man free right now.

I obey, the Magnificent.

I'm running to let your order be fulfilled.

- Does the Magnificent let them die this way? - Lorenzo, save your daughter!

Be a man! Be a father!

- Be a father in law! - Suspend the execution! Right now!

Well said! Have you heard?

It's an order by the Magnificent! Be quick!

Come on with the stairs! Put those flames out!

What a great man is your father!

I adore him! Bravo!

Captain! Lads!

Be quick with the stair! Don't be afraid, Maddalena!

I'm here to defend you!

Is this stair solid? I wouldn't like that now...

Quickness is needed! I didn't like you!

I wouldn't have ever thought fire was burning so much.

Nice of you coming up on the stake! Nice!

- Be careful! - What's up, are you starting again?

I forgive you!

This time either me or you!

What if both of us lived?

We're hurting each other!

Be good! I like you, come on!

Be good...Stop this mad!

- Death to the betrayer! - Which one do you mean?

One of the two of them will be. Death to the betrayer!

Stop, we're friends!

- You're scared now! - Yes!

Situation has changed! You're taking advantage from that. I stitch you up.

Maddalena. Don't be afraid.

I'll fix him. Come here!

Go on!

You're taking advantage because I'm a man.

Help! Lorenzo!

Dad!

Adramelek...

Any hostility against Rome stop!

No war!

How hard to be a man is! But it's worth.

- Where? - What?

I was looking for...

- Goodbye, Belfagor! -...an old friend.

Don't end up in paradise!

Goodbye Adramelek! Goodbye!

Thanks!

The marriage between Franceschetto Cybo dell'Anguillara and Maddalena...

...de' Medici, officiated at Easter in 1487, sealed the peace between...

...Rome and Florence.

Translated by quidtum @ CG February 2012