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EPISODE TWO

Are they greeting us?

Who else, don't you realize who your brother is?

Don't bow, hold your head high.

If our father could only seen us now.

Benvenuto, ..

... what kind of pot is this?

It's not even finished.

You can't make bread without flour, Holliness

Scoundrel, you've already have 500 ducats.

I used them for faith, hope and charity, ..

... but you want the cup for the resurrection, too.

You know what I'm going to do? I'll throw it out of the window!

No, I have a better idea, I'll throw you out.

No, I'll send you to prison, I'll have you chained to the walls!

That will ruins your hands, of course... I know what I'll do.

I won't let you coin my money anymore.

You are only hurting yourself..

Your arogance is becoming unbearable, Benvenuto.

Finish it for the Corpus Christi.

Remember how they used to be those processions?

People used to kneel and prayed for me.

They loved me.

And now they curse me, and whispers that raise to heaven.

That's how God blinded me.

The clamour of their complains was insufferable.

And another thing: ..

... I want you to make me a button for my robe.

I have a diamond as big as that.

I pledged it, but I can redeem it.

I want the figure of God with a diamond here.

Wouldn't it better to have God

... seated on the diamond as down on a throne?

Yes, yes, of course.

Yes.

Yes ... Off you go.

Get busy. You'll have the money.

Forgive me, Holliness, but there is another favour.

This young man.

Which young man? .. Who?

He is my younger brother Francesco Cellini.

He fought bravely under your cousin Giovanni delle Bande nere.

He wasn't my cousin, anyway he's dead.

Now he would like to serve your nephew, Duke Alessandro, the great warrior.

He is not my nephew.

He is my son, ignorant and vicious.

I gave him Florence, and the Florentines would probably murder him.

Do you love your brother, Benvenuto?

More than myself.

More than yourself?

Do you really, Benvenuto?

Your Eminence.

I came to see the rings.

Certainly, Eminence.

I won't keep you waiting long.

It's Cichino.

What happened?

Chicino, what have they done to you?

He has a blue feather on his cap.

What are you saying? .. What are you saying?

Tell me who did it?

One of the guards. A fight.

50, there were 50 of them against us four.

- Benvenuto. - Yes I'm here.

I hoped for a better end.

You're not going to die!

I swear, Chicino, I will avenge you before you get to your feet.

Fetch the surgeon, quickly.

Out of here all of you ... Get out!

They killed my friend, so I...

I run among the 50.

I was blind with rage.

All I could seen was a sweaty face and a blue feather among the...

I shouted.

I stuck my sword up to his belly

on the other side, forced him to the ground.

I pulled out the sword, and ...

...the others...

... another blue feather.

Fighting.

The captain fired point-blank.

Forgive me.

Don't talk, don't talk.

Forgive this stupid death.

Cut it off.

He'll bleed to death.

Can't you see, he is dying anyway?

I'll do it myself.

Don't be a fool.

Think what you are doing.

Where is my horse?

Benvenuto, I'm the captain ... Where is my horse?

The one you gave me in Florence ..

... to win my glory with it.

- I only promised it to him. - I need my horse ...

to take me ...away!.

It's your responsibility.

I need my horse.

to take me away.

May our Lord keep your soul in eternal life.

The holy sacrament in this wreck of a body

... would be sacrilege.

Just let me look at it

My soul will receive it through my eyes.

My immortal soul, ..

... which begs the Lord for mercy and forgiveness.

Benvenuto.

Is he here?

He is all yours.

No, I'm doing this for love.

No, for fun.

Come.

Up there.

You killed my brother.

- Where are you going? - To see His Holiness.

He doesn't want to see you. - Let him tell me that himself.

They found your dagger in that desgusting brothel... and several people there recognized you.

- Does the Holy Father know? - Yes.

And what did he say?

He said that there is no cure from death, ..

... but Benvenuto is doing all he can to catch the disease.

Holy father.

Benvenuto..

... your sanity has returned to you?

Have you come to buy Pope's pardon?

I have always pardoned him.

Do you remember what you said to me at the castle of Saint Angelo?

You said "Ego te absolvo".

What else do you want to hear?

You say it again.Now.

"Ego te absolvo"

Very clever.

Treating a dying man?

I see people in red, Benvenuto.

I remember when my predecessor was lying on his deathbed ..

... and the cardinals asked him

... how much money he had and where it was hidden.

He was frightened.

Help me, Benvenuto.

I, ... I was one of those cardinals.

And now I'm ... I'm afraid.

Who will keep the romans from tearing me to pieces?

Leave him, His Holiness needs to rest.

Obey him Benvenuto, he will be the new Pope ..

... and the young man is his son.

Watch out from both of them.

Go now.

I no longer need anything but forgiveness.

Your Christ has a strange expression.

He is weeping, Your Excellency.

What's the meaning of it?

I asked you a question.

You're holding the answer, your excelency.

You don't imagine that our Lord is worried about your future, do you?

What presumption!

Please show this to His Holiness.

I hope he 'll find it worthy of my devotion.

And how much will your devotion cost?

Nothing.

It would be enough if the Holy father admires it.

Take it back.

Times have changed, Master Cellini ...

... from now on you have to prove you're worth.

Your designs will be compared with those of other goldsmiths.

With those you mean?

Do you know them?

Of course I know them.

That one, Tobio, was convicted for forgery in Parma.

You saved him from the gallows!

I needed his hands, not his head.

As for you, Pompeo, you are a slanderer and a liar.

You don't have any talent yourself

so you're against the ones who have

Is it true, Benvenuto, you go round saying

His Holiness is just a skeleton (? )who's dressed up like a Pope?

Be careful, or one day, I will ram your lies back down your throat

I hear you coined false money for Pope Clement's mint ...

gold has a way to stick to your hands, doesn't it?

Too bad, the party's over.

Cellini.. Murderer

Don't move.

I would kill him one more time - this villain.

All right, I admit I killed him ..

... but only to defend my honor and my work.

As a holy law of the state allow.

You gave the mint to this mediocre jackass

I don't care who you killed.

Just tell me where you hid those jewels

We searched your workshop, but we didn't find any of them.

I don't understand, what jewels?

The ones you stole from Saint Peter's treasure.

Prove that I have kept just one of them.

You are a violent arogant naive.

But I'll make you as humble as a wit dog.

I'm innocent.

And I have a witness to prove it.

What witness?

Signor Cavalierino, Pope Clement's treasurer.

Cavalierino is dead, unfortunately for you.

I know, but he listed the jewels one by one in his register.

I believe there are other books ..

... where all the jewels included in the papal treasury for centuries are listed.

All that has to be done is to compare one list with the other.

I want a trial.

You are worth 80,000 ducats in stolen jewels

If you don't confess and return them ..

... you will stay down here till you rot.

He has asked to the Pope to give him everything you stole.

Where the devil are you taking me?

I 'm not a man to be bound by the law!

Forgive me for having had your hands bond.

I was told that you are a dangerous man.

Is that your opinion, too?

Yes ... you must be like everyone with talent.

That's just what interests me.

I have a lot of information about you, Cellini ...

..I think I know just who you are.

But do you know who I am?

Yes, Sir.

You are the governor of this prison.

You didn't understand my question.

I will ask differently.

Can you distinguish me from these birds?

I think I can, sir.

Because I don't have wings?

You're an artist, you suppose to see beyound...appearances

Do you think that stops me from flying?

No, sir, I'm sure you fly quite beautifully.

The man is crazy.

Every year he comes up with something new.

Once he thought he was a oil jug

... then he was a frog- he jumped arround croaking.

What's the matter, don't you like it?

I haven't eat nor sleep.

Never?

Sometimes.

Late at night.

On the wing ... when I'm flying over the earth

- Yes? - Yes...

swooping, darting, while men are sleeping.

And the fields are full of suculent creatures,

rats, martins, mice...owls

... That's when I feel the need for food

I can imagine.

Warm, living food.

Fluttering hearts and gushing blood

The city seen from the sky it's like a dark pit

The roof tiles are fish scales ..

... and the souls of the dead, ..

bright dots circling the cemeteries

From up here, I see an insect scuttling through the dark streets.

Thief.

A lover?

Excelency, careful, you will fall.

- It's the rabbit to your taste? - Yes, superb thank you.

Falling, was I?

... I have a proposition to make to you

A proposition, excelency?

It concerns that certain difference between man and bird ...

...is it real or just aparent?

That depends on how one judges nature.

She should be judged by her intentions

... the ideas she conceals within herself.

And the laws that she conceals within herself.

Nature's laws - God's laws -man's ideas

Do you know Leonardo' studies on the flight of birds?

Is that your proposition?

Yes...

the finest cloth

... wax, gum Arabic, Indian cane.

A pair of wings?

Make them for me, Benvenuto.

Yes...

Why not?

Let's drink to it, to a flying machine.

Wait.

Resembling with which bird?

Not a bird, excelency, a bat.

A bat?

A bat?

Their wings are so small and they fly so high.

Mine will be big and they will go far.

Last night I dreamt that you escaped.

Flew away ...

I'm giving you my word that I won't escape.

You can't trust the word of a prisoner

You can trust mine.

Anyway you wouldn't get far, you're not a real bat, ...

... like me.

Take it off.

You see how the wheel turns?

... the castle you help to defend has become your prison.

Was it worth it?

Everyone lives in as many ways as he can.

As an animal, a genius, an artist, a bird in flight.

I heard you make friends with the bat.

I'm teaching him to fly.

The company of madmen could be infectious, you know.

The bat isn't mad.

First, because he likes me and gives me excelent rabbit stew and fine wine .

Secondly, he is a dreamer.

Dreamers forget they'll have to die.

And it's the fear of death which makes man mad.

His mind is free, free to dream.

Who knows, one day he may really fly.

Benvenuto, this machine won't fly.

It will, it will.

But I can't get off the ground.

If you read the great Leonardo carefully, ..

... you would know that the movement of the body rejected in the space, can lift a man from the earth.

No, no, Your Excellency.

What are you doing?

Your Excellency,..

... I meant wide open spaces, not a closed room.

- You are an impostor. No!..

Tomorrow I will show you otherwise.

I will lodge myself with the bat wings and fly all the way to the castle meadow.

No, further, to St. Peter's Square itself.

So you admit it?

Admit what, Excelency?

You didn't make these wings for me, but for yourself, so you could escape.

You just said that it won't fly.

And you just said they would.

The Pope warned me you're devil.

Guards.

Guards!

He tries to escape ... Tie him fast.

Tie me up as well as you will like... I will escape all the same.

Benvenuto, ...

- What did you say? You'll end up with a noose arround you!

What are you talking about, I'm not gonna die!

I will never die.

Hear that? Do you hear that?

The man's immortal!

Benvenuto.

I am here, Your Excellency.

I am dead, Benvenuto.

I can see that, Excelency

We have to say goodbye.

The Pope thinks the dead governor is a poor jailer.

They are taking me to Florence.

Forgive me.

For what, Benvenuto?

For not believing in your idea.

You see, I only build to escape with , I lied to you.

I didn't understand that you're a true visionary who is trying to free human beings from their own weight.

Yes ... who knows, we might have reached the circle of the moon ...

... and from there we've look down at all the confusion on earth

that swarming mount of insects quarelling, betraying

stealing, playing, jumping arround

falling down and dying in the slime...

...the EXCREMENTS of life.

Stuck on the worst ,most rotten part of the universe.

Goodbye, Benvenuto.

I sure see you here, in the next world.

Help me, Lord, because I am innocent, and you know it ..

... and because I help myself.

Get the clothes off him.

He has something? - Leave me alone.

It's a purse.

In the pockets.

The guards!

What happened to you? My leg is broken.

Are you Cardinal Carnard's men?

Take me to him, The Cardinal is a friend of mine.

A friend of yours? - Yes...

I'm telling you the truth ... I swear it.

No!

I have a broken leg!

You know what Pope said?

You'll be hanged to the same battlement from which you escaped.

that way all Rome gets to enjoy the show

Someone else was talking about you.

Cardinal Carnara, your friend and protector.

He said he'd sold you for a good price.

He's got a bishopry for his nephew.

Here, an apple for you.

The Pope's bastard doesn't want you to starve ..

... not because of his kind heart or his empty purse.

Here he is, your great artist.

Cellini?

Master Cellini?

My name is Jean de Montluc.

I am the emissary of the King of France.

His Majesty Francis I has seek an interest in you.

I don't see what use you could make of him.

And what use it is to you with this conditions?

He worths 80,000 ducats in stolen jewels.

If he doesn't confess and return them

he can die down here like a rat.

I assure you it will be to your advantage and to your honor ..

... if you will consider doing my sovereign a small favor

and released him into my care.

Honor, my lord?

I am a Pope's bastard.

Well, then, might you understand

... more practical advantages to yourself

... and to His Holiness, as well?

Perhaps you don't understand, my lord.

Everyone knows Cellini is my enemy.

But whether he is or not has no importance

But as long as his stench fills the hole of Rome

the people will know how I treat with my enemies.

How you must hate him!

Not at all.

This satisfies the most subtle pleasure..

... more than hatred or malice

The pleasure of destroying a great mind?

Perhaps.

But you can see by yourself, he's already destroyed.

Tell your master, the king not to waste his money.

Benvenuto Cellini no longer exists.

An so you've come to free me, my Christ, ...

... when I am in need.

When my tormented soul calls up to you in my agony and despair .

You have come to free me.

Do you hear that?I'm free!

My soul is free, you, bastards!

It's not me who's in hell, it's you!

It's you!

They don't hear me?

They don't hear me, Lord?

But you do.

Don't you?

... yes, you can hear Benvenuto.

You have always watched over me.

Forgive me, Lord, I am a miserable sinner.

I have only one favor to ask you...

... just a small one...

If you love me, Lord..

... let me see the sun.

I've seen so many things in the sun

I saw a meadow, with yellow flowers in it ..

angels singing, ..

my brother Cecchino who died.

I even saw that maid ...

... that gave me syphilis in the workshop.

Forgive me, Lord, ..

... let me see the sun.

Benvenuto, what are you doing?

I was just thanking Him for pulling me out of that prison.

Then thank me, ..

...not better thank His Majesty the King of France.

It's almost like the sun anyway. he always disappears at night.

Even though a king is tired or ill

... he travels all the time from one city to another, ..

... from one castle to another.

Today he's out hunting ..

the wheather for women or wild boars

I thought you said he was expecting me?

I let you know one secret: ..

... His Majesty leaves messages for his women

the way a cat leaves its spray

All we have to do is ...

Cellini?

Cellini.

I am His Majesty's treasurer.

The castle, known as Le Petit Noel, ..

has been granted to you by His Majesty for the services and works,etc.

Another Italian mouth to feed.

A castle?

His Majesty loves Italian artists

...almost as much he loves women and hunting.

Almost.

The king's wife, the king's mistress, ..

... the mistress of Enrico, heir to the throne and his wife.

Bow to them.

In which order? - First the queen.

What have you brought this time, Montluc?

Another fire eater?

Benvenuto Cellini, madame, florentine.

Goldsmith.

I hear this Cellini is a madman.

They say he cut the innkeeper's throat on the road to Paris

just because the fellow mistreated his horse.

I remember a brave little girl named Caterina de Medici, ..

held hostage by the people of Florence, ..

... They wanted a republic and your head

And now you are the wife of the Dauphin of France.

And an infinitely unhappy woman.

His Majesty is must amused..

... that you dared to snatch from one of the Pope's clutches .

Tell us how you did it.

Well.Once a week His Holiness indulges himself

pouring down quarters that nauseatic roman wine, until he vomits

That evening, when vomity arrived..

He said to get rid of me "All right, my son, just take him away."

And his bastard was furious!

Stand up Benvenuto, you look ridiculous!

Caterina, are you interested in this murderer?

The only thing that interests me, madame, is my embroidery.

Cellini is quite capable of looking after himself, or perhaps he isn't.

But there is nothing much that I can do for him ...

...or for myself for that matter.

The three of you see to that.

Are you complaining about us?

Your husband complains about you, your face, your voice, ..

... your mouth, your behavior in bed.

His Majesty is giving Cellini the Petit Noel castle.

Let me meet the king, my ladies so I may know how I can serve him.

You will not set foot in that castle!

His Majesty promised it to the prevost of Paris.

I shall insist that he'll be informed.

Perhaps you should inform your perfumer, as well...

Why, I pray?

Because, although the king has promised this castle to the prevost, ..

... I heard that you promised it to your perfumer.

I imagine it worth it.

You may imagine what you want.

You may imagine, you have the ears of a king, ..

... in which case it's the only part that you do posses..

Go away Benvenuto, leave the room at once!

Benvenuto Cellini, Your Majesty.

"Mon ami" (My friend).

How can I serve, Your majesty?

I know that your hands can create miracles

... to delight my eyes and the eyes of my courtiers.

I beg Your majesty to grant me another place in which to work.

Cellini means it seems the castle you granted him

... had already promised to another.

A fine hunting day.

- Yes, sire, but ... - No but about it.

What's your name?

Your name!

Benvenuto Cellini.

Well, then.

If you are the same Cellini I was told about ..

... act as you normally do with my permission.

Anybody there?

Open up in the king's name!

There is no need to shout!

Go other side.

What can I do for you?

My servants will be arriving soon with my baggage.

I don't need your services.

I'll be gone before the'll arrive.

And if you're wiser than you look, ..

...you turn around and go back where you came from, ..

... otherwise you're the one who'll need me

Where do you want this?

Put it there.

Cellini.

Cellini.

Cellini.

Benvenuto Cellini.

As official representative of the municipal authorities of Paris, ..

... I, Signor de Marmaignes

Are you the prevost or the perfumer?

By order of the ilustrious gentleman here present ...

... immediately to evacuate this castle.

It was illegally occupied without official permission.

Did you hear me, you filthy italian scum?

You heard?

I'm dying.

This is ridiculous, I just stopped you.

My helmet, take my helmet off.

You look like you're laughing ... Tell me the joke.

Bastard.

Give me ... a mirror.

Give me a mirror.

Don't worry, you have no idea how many times I've done this.

It's almost done

Quiet!

Give me a spoon.

I could sewn all your mouth shut that you would't be able to blab.

Don't worry, I'll be nice, I will leave a hole so you can eat.

Open.

You know ... I'm learning how to forgive.

But this castle means a lot to me, it was given me by the king.

Are you Benvenuto Cellini?

You know very well.

Just answer my question.

I am.

Sign this.

- What is it? A receipt.

A receipt for what?

For three hundred pounds of silver.

I prefer gold.

I'm sure you do.

Yes, your excelency, I worship it but not for the same reason as you do.

The king's orders.

For what purpose?

- Twelve candlesticks. - From three hundred pounds of silver?

Yes, each of them will reach the height of the king, that is, 6 feet.

He desires you to make six male and six female figures ...

all different from others.

For the female faces, the king himself may supply some suggestions

The silver will be weighed again later, after you completed the work and if its under weight ...

Ah, Monsieur de Marmaignes

Your Excelency, there are no mirrors in this castle.

Do you have a mirror?

You don't have a mirror.

Wine.

His Majesty has decided to grant you the same annual allowance

assigned to Leonardo da Vinci's, 700 scudos.

The same as Leonardo's?

He say that?

My dear Cellini, a sovereign..

... who spends a third of the state's income on his personal expenses

... can afford to make a Leonardo of you.