1 00:00:09,675 --> 00:00:12,160 Juan Borgia is a hero. 2 00:00:15,214 --> 00:00:20,551 Let Christoforo Castanea be damned. And Juan Borgia, praised. 3 00:00:20,619 --> 00:00:22,336 And immoral. 4 00:00:22,404 --> 00:00:23,988 Franceschetto. 5 00:00:24,057 --> 00:00:27,843 There is one significant item. Your wife. 6 00:00:27,910 --> 00:00:30,444 Lucrezia Borgia is betrothed. 7 00:00:30,512 --> 00:00:34,332 Your uncle has made a better match. Don Gaspare de Procida. 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:35,934 And confused. 9 00:00:36,002 --> 00:00:38,402 At first, I found Don Gaspare repulsive. 10 00:00:38,470 --> 00:00:41,455 But now, part of me is taken by him. 11 00:00:41,523 --> 00:00:45,143 Cesare Borgia is Bishop of Valencia. 12 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:46,894 But I do not want to be a priest. 13 00:00:46,962 --> 00:00:48,262 I do not have the soul for it. 14 00:00:48,331 --> 00:00:49,397 And in love. 15 00:00:49,465 --> 00:00:50,565 There is a girl. 16 00:00:50,633 --> 00:00:52,434 My passion for her is too overwhelming. 17 00:00:52,501 --> 00:00:55,187 Rodrigo Borgia is respected. 18 00:00:55,254 --> 00:00:58,039 We are all one family. Salute. 19 00:00:58,107 --> 00:01:00,041 And hated. 20 00:01:02,678 --> 00:01:05,814 Pope Innocent VIII is dead. 21 00:01:05,882 --> 00:01:08,917 The peasants, believing they, as the children of God, 22 00:01:08,985 --> 00:01:10,451 are the heirs to the wealth 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,554 will steal whatever they can. 24 00:01:12,622 --> 00:01:15,690 Since Roman lust for plunder is never satisfied, 25 00:01:15,758 --> 00:01:18,626 the mob will attack the palaces of every cardinal in Rome. 26 00:03:08,220 --> 00:03:09,938 At least the rioting has stopped. 27 00:03:11,156 --> 00:03:12,156 For now. 28 00:03:13,892 --> 00:03:18,596 Until the rabble sobers up. And drinks some more. 29 00:03:30,392 --> 00:03:34,545 We've killed these men. Now we must bury them. 30 00:03:34,613 --> 00:03:36,664 And pray for their souls. 31 00:03:36,732 --> 00:03:39,000 And pray for our own. 32 00:04:16,988 --> 00:04:18,623 I'm sorry. 33 00:04:18,690 --> 00:04:21,843 I did not mean to... No, I'm finished. 34 00:04:21,911 --> 00:04:24,813 Praying for divine guidance during the Conclave. 35 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,880 Yes. 36 00:04:25,948 --> 00:04:27,198 Cardinal Costa and I were just... 37 00:04:27,266 --> 00:04:29,467 Yes, Cardinal Costa. 38 00:04:29,535 --> 00:04:33,454 There are many heinous practices which need to be buried with the pope today. 39 00:04:35,124 --> 00:04:38,343 I read the Gospels to Innocent as he lay dying, 40 00:04:38,410 --> 00:04:41,729 but he did not seem to know what I was saying. 41 00:04:41,797 --> 00:04:44,231 I'm certain His Holiness took great solace in your presence. 42 00:04:55,961 --> 00:04:58,947 You do not know what lying with that creature is like. 43 00:04:59,014 --> 00:05:00,398 Then do not lie with him. 44 00:05:00,482 --> 00:05:01,866 If I refuse, he'll rape me. 45 00:05:01,933 --> 00:05:03,651 Then I'll have him castrated. 46 00:05:03,703 --> 00:05:07,038 Oh, fine. I still will have been raped. 47 00:05:08,340 --> 00:05:12,744 Oh, my love, if only we could be together. 48 00:05:13,412 --> 00:05:14,695 In truth. 49 00:05:14,763 --> 00:05:16,430 What can be done? 50 00:05:16,498 --> 00:05:19,134 You have a husband and I am a cardinal. 51 00:05:19,201 --> 00:05:20,367 Who could be pope. 52 00:05:20,436 --> 00:05:21,502 Yes. 53 00:05:22,755 --> 00:05:25,189 Twice I have failed to get elected. 54 00:05:25,257 --> 00:05:27,425 I had given up hope. 55 00:05:27,493 --> 00:05:31,962 But these past few days, I studied the competition, the circumstances, 56 00:05:32,030 --> 00:05:36,584 and I think, maybe, if I'm just clever enough, 57 00:05:36,651 --> 00:05:38,586 if God grants it. 58 00:05:38,653 --> 00:05:40,922 Then you and I will marry? 59 00:05:40,989 --> 00:05:42,423 Marry? When I am pope? 60 00:05:42,491 --> 00:05:44,659 Saint Peter was married. 61 00:05:44,726 --> 00:05:49,063 La Bella, even if I dared, you still have a husband. 62 00:05:49,131 --> 00:05:50,464 Husbands die. 63 00:05:51,984 --> 00:05:54,652 I'm a priest. I do not kill. 64 00:06:03,078 --> 00:06:07,198 I have heard that when you were but 10 years old, 65 00:06:07,266 --> 00:06:09,166 a boy spoke poor of you. 66 00:06:09,184 --> 00:06:13,054 So you plunged a knife through his heart. 67 00:06:13,121 --> 00:06:16,124 How dare you! Repeating such lies. 68 00:06:17,476 --> 00:06:19,460 I'm no murderer. And for you to... 69 00:06:19,561 --> 00:06:21,011 I meant nothing. 70 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:23,114 Be gone from my sight! 71 00:06:30,338 --> 00:06:33,308 Juan, I've come, since entering Rome, 72 00:06:33,375 --> 00:06:35,710 to trust you as a friend. 73 00:06:35,777 --> 00:06:37,245 Why must you go back to Spain? 74 00:06:37,379 --> 00:06:39,430 As a part of my uncle's master plan. 75 00:06:39,498 --> 00:06:41,181 And what of me? 76 00:06:41,249 --> 00:06:43,367 Bajazet wants me dead. 77 00:06:43,435 --> 00:06:45,803 Another pope may agree to expedite the matter. 78 00:06:46,021 --> 00:06:49,574 That's why hiding you in this room high above the Sistine is so smart. 79 00:06:49,642 --> 00:06:51,442 You can hear every utterance. 80 00:06:51,510 --> 00:06:54,094 And what if I hear a name other than Borgia called to the throne? 81 00:06:55,681 --> 00:06:58,182 Then you'll contact Gacet, who will help you escape 82 00:06:58,250 --> 00:07:00,568 before anyone else finds you. 83 00:07:00,635 --> 00:07:03,087 And sells you to your brother. 84 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:04,522 Stay but a few days more... 85 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:07,008 No. When Uncle's uncle became pope, 86 00:07:07,075 --> 00:07:10,711 he opened the gates of Rome to a horde of distant, greedy relatives. 87 00:07:10,779 --> 00:07:13,447 I believe he even made a nephew into a cardinal, 88 00:07:14,383 --> 00:07:15,582 did he not? 89 00:07:15,650 --> 00:07:17,018 He did. 90 00:07:17,085 --> 00:07:19,553 Which is why Rodrigo now needs to show 91 00:07:19,621 --> 00:07:22,290 his colleagues that he's nothing like Pope Calixtus. 92 00:07:23,091 --> 00:07:25,426 So I am off to Gandia. 93 00:07:25,493 --> 00:07:28,046 Cesare is returning to the studium in Pisa 94 00:07:28,113 --> 00:07:31,216 and Lucrezia is going to the country. 95 00:07:31,283 --> 00:07:33,484 Sometimes I'm bitterly cold 96 00:07:33,552 --> 00:07:36,420 and sometimes burning hot. 97 00:07:39,925 --> 00:07:43,160 Then this sojourn to Subiaco will do much good. 98 00:07:43,228 --> 00:07:46,247 Many of the monks were at the abbey when you were born. 99 00:07:46,314 --> 00:07:49,166 They will care for you as if you were their daughter. 100 00:07:49,234 --> 00:07:51,852 Do they still have the head of that young girl? 101 00:07:51,954 --> 00:07:54,088 Saint Petronilla. 102 00:07:54,155 --> 00:07:56,541 The daughter of Peter, the first pope. 103 00:07:56,875 --> 00:07:58,209 Pray before the shrine of Patronilla 104 00:07:58,277 --> 00:08:00,328 that our separation will be brief. 105 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:11,488 I fear moving her in this condition. 106 00:08:11,556 --> 00:08:13,641 'Tis best to delay our trip. 107 00:08:13,709 --> 00:08:17,161 No. I want you all out of Rome immediately. 108 00:08:21,533 --> 00:08:24,218 As I go into my first Conclave, 109 00:08:24,285 --> 00:08:25,969 I will miss your strength, my friends. 110 00:08:28,057 --> 00:08:30,691 You will be impacting history, Giovanni, 111 00:08:30,759 --> 00:08:32,893 while Alessandro and I will merely be studying it. 112 00:08:32,962 --> 00:08:34,595 And drinking with Remolino. 113 00:08:36,398 --> 00:08:39,417 Lucrezia has departed without saying goodbye? 114 00:08:39,484 --> 00:08:40,718 Then I shall go to Subiaco. 115 00:08:40,785 --> 00:08:42,553 No, Don Gaspare. 116 00:08:42,621 --> 00:08:45,756 Cardinal Borgia forbids you to be within 20 leagues of the abbey. 117 00:08:45,824 --> 00:08:47,491 But I am Lucrezia's fiance! 118 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,678 Even so, there must be no scandals before the Conclave. 119 00:08:50,745 --> 00:08:53,564 Where is the Lady Giulia? I must speak to her! 120 00:08:53,632 --> 00:08:56,133 She's gone as well. To Bassanello. 121 00:08:56,201 --> 00:08:59,070 We must all sacrifice, Don Gaspare, 122 00:08:59,138 --> 00:09:00,572 for the good of our souls. 123 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:01,839 Yes, Excellency. 124 00:09:03,475 --> 00:09:05,443 I see that you leave for Pisa. 125 00:09:06,311 --> 00:09:08,363 But my eyes will be everywhere. 126 00:09:08,864 --> 00:09:09,964 Watching. 127 00:09:13,852 --> 00:09:15,519 Have you seen my uncle? 128 00:09:15,587 --> 00:09:17,505 Has he not come to bid you adieu? 129 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:19,707 Well, 130 00:09:19,774 --> 00:09:22,043 he is busy preparing for the Conclave. 131 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,248 You are dismissed, Cockroach. 132 00:09:31,837 --> 00:09:33,403 If we are to reach the seminary by tomorrow, 133 00:09:33,471 --> 00:09:34,505 we must leave at once. 134 00:09:34,572 --> 00:09:36,507 We will wait another moment 135 00:09:36,574 --> 00:09:37,908 to see if Rodrigo comes. 136 00:09:39,728 --> 00:09:41,128 Look, can we just finish this? 137 00:09:41,196 --> 00:09:43,297 You as Dean of the Sacred College 138 00:09:43,364 --> 00:09:45,032 and I as Vice Chancellor of the Curia 139 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:47,185 are required by canon law... Yes. 140 00:09:47,252 --> 00:09:49,737 To decide which nine cardinals will perform 141 00:09:49,804 --> 00:09:52,573 the nine requiem masses for Pope Innocent. 142 00:09:52,641 --> 00:09:54,475 An honor which raises those chosen above the others. 143 00:09:54,543 --> 00:09:55,526 Yes. I just... 144 00:09:55,661 --> 00:09:59,363 We have four names, we need five more. 145 00:09:59,431 --> 00:10:01,716 But we must tread carefully. 146 00:10:01,784 --> 00:10:04,085 One of the nine will, in all likelihood, become pope. 147 00:10:04,152 --> 00:10:06,069 Yes. 148 00:10:06,137 --> 00:10:09,623 Jorge da Costa seems to be gathering some support, 149 00:10:09,691 --> 00:10:13,678 as he sits smugly in judgment of us all. 150 00:10:13,745 --> 00:10:16,063 Our Portuguese colleague is rich, 151 00:10:16,131 --> 00:10:18,448 rich enough to bribe every cardinal. 152 00:10:18,516 --> 00:10:23,654 Rich, but miserly. And moral. 153 00:10:23,722 --> 00:10:26,891 Besides, he has not spent much time around the Vatican. 154 00:10:26,958 --> 00:10:27,975 True. 155 00:10:28,043 --> 00:10:30,010 But Rome is bigger than its city. 156 00:10:31,096 --> 00:10:32,196 Yes, to Costa. 157 00:10:33,732 --> 00:10:35,616 And Sforza, 158 00:10:35,683 --> 00:10:38,769 as he drags his long silk coat through the halls? 159 00:10:38,837 --> 00:10:42,055 The Sforza family rules Milan with a heavy hand. 160 00:10:42,157 --> 00:10:45,576 But the next pope must reach out with a gentle one toward Naples. 161 00:10:47,846 --> 00:10:49,814 I propose for balance. 162 00:10:49,882 --> 00:10:52,583 We give one mass to Cardinal Sforza, 163 00:10:52,651 --> 00:10:54,351 and another to Cardinal Carafa. 164 00:10:54,419 --> 00:10:55,953 Agreed. 165 00:10:56,021 --> 00:10:58,355 Milan and Naples must both be represented. 166 00:11:01,710 --> 00:11:03,277 And you make eight, 167 00:11:03,344 --> 00:11:04,796 if you have lost count. 168 00:11:05,747 --> 00:11:07,181 And you are the ninth. 169 00:11:39,081 --> 00:11:41,182 The blessed head of Saint Petronilla. 170 00:11:41,249 --> 00:11:45,819 Martyred for refusing to marry the Roman patrician, Flaccus. 171 00:11:45,887 --> 00:11:48,356 She refused to marry? 172 00:11:48,423 --> 00:11:53,760 Rather than subject herself to life with a pagan, she died for her faith. 173 00:11:53,828 --> 00:11:56,129 Her father, the pope, let her die? 174 00:11:56,197 --> 00:11:57,347 Of course. 175 00:11:57,415 --> 00:11:59,733 I mean, Saint Peter was martyred as well. 176 00:12:03,021 --> 00:12:04,688 My head aches so... 177 00:12:04,756 --> 00:12:05,956 Lucrezia. 178 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:08,659 Must be the heat. 179 00:12:08,727 --> 00:12:10,260 Or the fever. 180 00:12:10,328 --> 00:12:12,362 Carry her to the guest house. 181 00:12:12,431 --> 00:12:13,898 Send for the doctor. 182 00:12:23,108 --> 00:12:24,858 We must quarantine the guest house 183 00:12:24,926 --> 00:12:28,378 so the fever she carries does not spread to the monastery. 184 00:12:28,446 --> 00:12:31,532 But, dottore, will she survive? 185 00:12:57,309 --> 00:13:00,494 Finally, my two testicles return. 186 00:13:00,562 --> 00:13:02,496 You are a eunuch no more. 187 00:13:03,231 --> 00:13:04,664 One of you hangs low. 188 00:13:04,732 --> 00:13:07,167 A drink will raise his spirits to the heavens. 189 00:13:07,169 --> 00:13:08,435 In vino, divinity. 190 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:09,753 I will see you at supper. 191 00:13:09,821 --> 00:13:13,440 Cesare, you are turning your back on a chance to reach heaven? 192 00:13:13,508 --> 00:13:16,376 If Pisa were heaven, we would all have wings. 193 00:13:18,146 --> 00:13:19,780 Let us drink and see halos. 194 00:13:47,442 --> 00:13:49,243 Each of us a mirror and a candle. 195 00:13:49,311 --> 00:13:52,913 I have found the palace bell tower to be the most suitable location. 196 00:13:52,981 --> 00:13:56,216 Meet your valet for the Conclave. Petronio. 197 00:13:56,284 --> 00:13:58,319 Clever boy. Inquisitive. 198 00:13:59,287 --> 00:14:01,939 Inquisitive? In what area? 199 00:14:02,006 --> 00:14:04,241 Sforza's valet, I'm told, 200 00:14:04,308 --> 00:14:07,345 likes the back of a woman more than the front. 201 00:14:07,412 --> 00:14:10,698 Ah. Learning such facts is helpful, 202 00:14:10,765 --> 00:14:12,666 but only if you know when to use them. 203 00:14:12,734 --> 00:14:14,067 Do you keep secrets, boy? 204 00:14:14,135 --> 00:14:17,938 Yes, Eminence, as if I were a mute. 205 00:14:18,006 --> 00:14:20,374 If you ever repeat a single word you hear from my lips, 206 00:14:20,442 --> 00:14:22,643 I will cut out your tongue. 207 00:14:24,963 --> 00:14:27,815 How did you fare in the meeting with della Rovere? 208 00:14:27,883 --> 00:14:30,450 Carafa and Piccolomini are two of the nine. 209 00:14:30,518 --> 00:14:33,487 Both have promised to drop out of the running once the Conclave convenes, 210 00:14:33,555 --> 00:14:35,239 and throw their support to me. 211 00:14:35,307 --> 00:14:39,126 With Orsini, Savelli, de Medici and the two Spanish cardinals, 212 00:14:39,193 --> 00:14:41,562 you'll have eight votes going into the election. 213 00:14:41,629 --> 00:14:42,846 Six short of victory. 214 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:44,765 No. 215 00:14:44,833 --> 00:14:47,134 We have received word that due to a storm in the Mediterranean Sea, 216 00:14:47,202 --> 00:14:50,404 Mendoza and my cousin will not reach Italy in time. 217 00:14:51,839 --> 00:14:54,158 I'm down to six. 218 00:14:54,225 --> 00:14:57,761 If you lose two, you must add two. 219 00:14:57,829 --> 00:14:59,680 Shut up. Why? 220 00:15:00,648 --> 00:15:02,616 He is exactly right. 221 00:15:02,718 --> 00:15:04,485 Neither the French nor the German cardinals 222 00:15:04,553 --> 00:15:07,504 will arrive before we are sealed inside the Sistine. 223 00:15:07,572 --> 00:15:10,507 Coupled with the loss of the Spaniards, we need more electors. 224 00:15:10,575 --> 00:15:13,443 But the two you suggest, one is old and the other slow. 225 00:15:13,511 --> 00:15:15,062 They were named in petto. 226 00:15:15,129 --> 00:15:17,531 And perhaps in silence they were meant to remain. 227 00:15:17,599 --> 00:15:19,867 Pope Innocent had every intention of elevating them publicly. 228 00:15:19,934 --> 00:15:22,236 Only his death stood in the way. 229 00:15:22,303 --> 00:15:26,206 Federigo San Severino has served Novara with honor and sanctity. 230 00:15:26,274 --> 00:15:30,227 San Severino is 17 and a mule. 231 00:15:30,229 --> 00:15:33,664 Maffeo Gherardo has a letter from the Doge extolling his virtues. 232 00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:35,265 Gherardo is nearly a 100. 233 00:15:35,333 --> 00:15:37,067 Who eats as if two men of 50. 234 00:15:37,135 --> 00:15:39,403 And is afraid of his own wind. 235 00:15:39,471 --> 00:15:41,905 Of what wind are you afraid, Giuliano? 236 00:15:43,174 --> 00:15:44,641 None. 237 00:15:44,709 --> 00:15:47,144 I agree to Gherardo and San Severino 238 00:15:47,212 --> 00:15:51,932 if you get Ardicino della Porta to leave his monastery. 239 00:16:04,045 --> 00:16:06,196 And how is Rome? 240 00:16:06,264 --> 00:16:07,431 The city burns. 241 00:16:08,233 --> 00:16:09,467 From the heat? 242 00:16:10,819 --> 00:16:11,869 The unknown. 243 00:16:14,572 --> 00:16:15,706 Ardicino, 244 00:16:16,857 --> 00:16:18,592 when I convinced Pope Innocent 245 00:16:18,659 --> 00:16:21,796 to let you step down from your archdiocese and become a monk, 246 00:16:21,863 --> 00:16:23,864 I told you that the time might come 247 00:16:23,932 --> 00:16:27,934 when the church would need you to walk once more with your fellow cardinals. 248 00:16:28,002 --> 00:16:29,570 Now is the moment. 249 00:16:29,638 --> 00:16:31,621 The era of reform has arrived. 250 00:16:31,689 --> 00:16:33,824 As it does when each pope passes, 251 00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:38,445 and then all we do is move gold from one strongbox to the next. 252 00:16:38,447 --> 00:16:40,264 You are a prince of the church. 253 00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:44,051 A church in which His Holiness created this year alone 254 00:16:44,119 --> 00:16:46,787 fifty-two new positions in the Curia, 255 00:16:46,854 --> 00:16:48,638 not because they were needed, 256 00:16:48,706 --> 00:16:53,193 but in order to sell them for 62,000 ducats apiece. 257 00:16:53,260 --> 00:16:56,313 And to whom did he peddle these appointments? 258 00:16:56,381 --> 00:16:57,831 Men who pay the bribe, 259 00:16:57,899 --> 00:17:00,784 knowing that they will have their hands on the papal seal 260 00:17:00,851 --> 00:17:03,954 and then be able to demand bribes from others. 261 00:17:06,007 --> 00:17:10,444 You and I have worked hard to raise the Vatican's moral standards. 262 00:17:10,512 --> 00:17:13,213 How many priests, how many cardinals 263 00:17:13,281 --> 00:17:16,149 betray their vow of chastity? 264 00:17:16,217 --> 00:17:18,786 And why do they get away with such a crime? 265 00:17:18,788 --> 00:17:21,588 Because our Holy Father allowed his bastard son 266 00:17:21,656 --> 00:17:24,241 to live in the Apostolic Palace. 267 00:17:26,544 --> 00:17:29,613 Serving this pope, I lost sight of God. 268 00:17:29,681 --> 00:17:32,032 My soul was in agony. 269 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,418 Here, I'm at peace. 270 00:17:39,357 --> 00:17:41,292 What if the person chosen to succeed Innocent 271 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:42,843 could actually bring about the change 272 00:17:42,910 --> 00:17:46,130 for which we have both so ardently wished? 273 00:17:46,197 --> 00:17:48,332 Then the Holy Ghost will not need me 274 00:17:48,466 --> 00:17:51,135 to find him amongst those gathered. 275 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:54,388 Does not the Holy Ghost rely on us to act as His surrogates? 276 00:17:54,455 --> 00:17:56,856 Just as we stand for Christ at every Mass? 277 00:18:00,128 --> 00:18:02,346 Come back, Ardicino. 278 00:18:02,413 --> 00:18:05,516 Not just for the church, but for the city, for Rome. 279 00:18:06,801 --> 00:18:09,619 We need to get our children off their knees. 280 00:18:33,995 --> 00:18:36,430 I was afraid you had forgotten me. 281 00:18:36,498 --> 00:18:38,866 Fiametta, my every thought is of you. 282 00:18:41,669 --> 00:18:43,003 Your belly grows. 283 00:18:43,070 --> 00:18:44,938 Our child. 284 00:18:45,006 --> 00:18:46,290 He kicks like a bull. 285 00:18:48,443 --> 00:18:50,243 Like a Borgia. 286 00:18:58,853 --> 00:19:02,990 So, Fiametta was not able to reignite your dampened spirits? 287 00:19:03,057 --> 00:19:04,925 She is a joy. 288 00:19:04,993 --> 00:19:06,593 But I'm haunted by the specter 289 00:19:06,661 --> 00:19:09,630 of a certain vice chancellor. 290 00:19:09,697 --> 00:19:11,265 When he learns that I've impregnated a woman, 291 00:19:11,332 --> 00:19:12,966 he will eat my heart. 292 00:19:13,033 --> 00:19:16,136 Nonsense. There are worse things than procreating. 293 00:19:16,203 --> 00:19:17,421 Mmm. 294 00:19:17,489 --> 00:19:20,541 Rodrigo Borgia is a monument to reason, not saintliness. 295 00:19:20,608 --> 00:19:22,426 Your existence is testament to that. 296 00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:25,996 Rodrigo Borgia rules with his word, not by his example. 297 00:19:26,064 --> 00:19:28,131 True, but... Why does he ever have to know? 298 00:19:28,199 --> 00:19:30,100 He has spies in every pantry. 299 00:19:30,168 --> 00:19:32,403 If Rodrigo already knew about the girl, 300 00:19:32,470 --> 00:19:35,205 he would not have sent you back to Pisa. 301 00:19:35,273 --> 00:19:38,541 After he is elected, tell him he is a grandpa as well as il Papa. 302 00:19:38,609 --> 00:19:40,861 No. 303 00:19:40,928 --> 00:19:45,215 While my mother was ill, in her delirium she revealed to me a secret. 304 00:19:46,117 --> 00:19:48,001 On the morning I was born, 305 00:19:48,069 --> 00:19:51,988 the good cardinal made a sacred and irrevocable pact with God. 306 00:19:52,056 --> 00:19:55,292 My life would be dedicated to the Holy Word, 307 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,195 my days lived without sin, without lust. 308 00:19:59,231 --> 00:20:00,814 With absolute purity. 309 00:20:01,983 --> 00:20:03,083 And in exchange, 310 00:20:04,385 --> 00:20:06,019 Rodrigo would become pope. 311 00:20:09,190 --> 00:20:10,724 I have broken the bargain. 312 00:20:12,093 --> 00:20:14,628 Rodrigo may not know, but the Almighty does. 313 00:20:14,696 --> 00:20:16,112 And He will take revenge. 314 00:20:17,415 --> 00:20:20,067 Not only on my father, but our entire family. 315 00:20:38,669 --> 00:20:44,124 O God, the creator and redeemer of all the faithful, 316 00:20:45,927 --> 00:20:49,513 grant to the soul of Your servant, 317 00:20:49,581 --> 00:20:51,664 Giovanni Battista Cibo... Giovanni Battista Cibo, 318 00:20:54,068 --> 00:20:58,589 the pardon which he has always desired. 319 00:20:58,657 --> 00:21:04,477 Absolve, O Lord, his soul from every bond of sin. 320 00:21:07,315 --> 00:21:09,249 And by the help of Your grace, 321 00:21:11,052 --> 00:21:15,121 enable him to escape judgment and punishment. 322 00:21:16,991 --> 00:21:21,712 And enjoy the bliss of everlasting light. 323 00:21:36,094 --> 00:21:38,027 The day is new, 324 00:21:38,095 --> 00:21:40,914 one in which we, the guardians of the church, 325 00:21:41,766 --> 00:21:43,750 must abandon rivalry, 326 00:21:44,485 --> 00:21:45,852 ambition, 327 00:21:46,337 --> 00:21:49,573 and all ill will. 328 00:21:49,641 --> 00:21:53,393 We must turn the church from the whore of Babylon, which she has become, 329 00:21:54,095 --> 00:21:56,146 back into the Bride of Christ. 330 00:21:56,214 --> 00:21:57,931 Look. The sun! A miracle! 331 00:21:59,934 --> 00:22:02,952 If we do not elect a vigorous and holy shepherd... 332 00:22:03,021 --> 00:22:04,988 An omen. 333 00:22:05,056 --> 00:22:09,326 Wolves from outside will one day soon devour our flock 334 00:22:10,394 --> 00:22:11,528 and us 335 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,097 with a terrible vengeance. 336 00:22:15,516 --> 00:22:18,251 Rodrigo has found the Holy Spirit. 337 00:22:19,837 --> 00:22:22,472 Or maybe the Spirit has found him. 338 00:22:23,541 --> 00:22:25,475 In either case, 339 00:22:25,543 --> 00:22:29,196 it has been a while since the Spirit was last among us. 340 00:22:29,263 --> 00:22:31,598 Find out who wrote that speech. 341 00:22:42,743 --> 00:22:44,444 Three suns, you say? 342 00:22:44,512 --> 00:22:46,479 While you were preaching. 343 00:22:46,547 --> 00:22:48,081 The hand of God. Hmm. 344 00:22:49,217 --> 00:22:51,518 Or His middle finger. 345 00:22:51,585 --> 00:22:54,054 Is God telling me I will receive only three votes, 346 00:22:54,122 --> 00:22:56,690 instead of the 14, which I need? 347 00:22:56,758 --> 00:22:59,142 Three suns, my ass. 348 00:22:59,210 --> 00:23:02,746 An optical illusion, a refraction of light. 349 00:23:04,498 --> 00:23:07,267 Still, the peasants are superstitious. 350 00:23:07,334 --> 00:23:10,554 They believe Borgia will triumph. 351 00:23:10,621 --> 00:23:13,440 The peasants do not vote. 352 00:23:28,423 --> 00:23:30,590 I'm nervous. Are you nervous? 353 00:23:30,658 --> 00:23:33,760 No. And you needn't worry. 354 00:23:35,663 --> 00:23:36,996 Be my friend? 355 00:23:52,263 --> 00:23:54,731 You have warned each cardinal's valet? 356 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:56,099 Yes. Under penalty of death, 357 00:23:56,167 --> 00:23:58,351 neither they nor the cardinals are to have any contact 358 00:23:58,419 --> 00:24:00,069 with the outside world. 359 00:24:00,137 --> 00:24:02,572 All meals are to be delivered through this hatch, 360 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,375 prepared by each cardinal's own household. 361 00:24:05,442 --> 00:24:08,077 I shall have guardsmen standing here, morning through night. 362 00:24:08,145 --> 00:24:10,346 Nothing but food will get inside. 363 00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:47,284 I must speak with you, Rodrigo. 364 00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:48,886 Just before we entered, 365 00:24:48,953 --> 00:24:51,922 I received my official instructions from the King of Naples. 366 00:24:51,990 --> 00:24:54,308 I'm to vote not for you, but for Carafa. 367 00:24:54,375 --> 00:24:57,778 Carafa? No, he is to drop out. 368 00:24:57,845 --> 00:25:01,414 Since my family has a contract with King Ferrante, 369 00:25:01,482 --> 00:25:04,084 I am bound to follow his command. 370 00:25:04,152 --> 00:25:06,419 At least during the first scrutiny. 371 00:25:06,487 --> 00:25:08,588 But Carafa has sworn that he, too, will vote for me. 372 00:25:08,656 --> 00:25:11,992 Hmm. Perhaps Naples is afraid you cannot beat Milan. 373 00:25:21,318 --> 00:25:23,754 Carafa. I enjoy sardines. 374 00:25:23,821 --> 00:25:25,571 The taste of salt on my tongue. 375 00:25:25,639 --> 00:25:28,991 Maybe because I grew up by the sea. 376 00:25:29,059 --> 00:25:30,493 Not like those pigs from the north 377 00:25:30,561 --> 00:25:33,279 who put sugar on shit and call it chocolate. 378 00:25:33,347 --> 00:25:34,647 Since the death of His Holiness, 379 00:25:34,715 --> 00:25:37,717 I have survived on bread, water, and the Holy Ghost. 380 00:25:38,886 --> 00:25:40,720 I'm glad you came to see me, Rodrigo. 381 00:25:40,787 --> 00:25:43,273 You were very helpful to Naples when Innocent was alive. 382 00:25:43,340 --> 00:25:44,540 I expect your support again. 383 00:25:44,608 --> 00:25:46,243 And I yours. 384 00:25:46,311 --> 00:25:48,194 King Ferrante led me to believe I had your vote. 385 00:25:48,262 --> 00:25:50,230 Excuse me? 386 00:25:50,365 --> 00:25:52,849 Are you suggesting that you could be elected? 387 00:25:52,917 --> 00:25:54,767 I possess five votes already. 388 00:25:54,835 --> 00:25:57,103 One more than that Milanese fraud, Sforza. 389 00:25:57,171 --> 00:25:59,405 I have seven votes. 390 00:25:59,473 --> 00:26:01,141 Do you? 391 00:26:01,208 --> 00:26:02,325 Are you certain of that? 392 00:26:08,265 --> 00:26:09,682 I cannot breathe. 393 00:26:09,750 --> 00:26:10,566 Calm yourself. 394 00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:12,802 I know the journey from Venice was difficult. 395 00:26:12,870 --> 00:26:14,871 Why did I come? 396 00:26:14,939 --> 00:26:17,373 Why did you convince them to make me a cardinal? 397 00:26:17,441 --> 00:26:20,910 The air is foul. This time of year, Rome kills. 398 00:26:20,978 --> 00:26:22,145 I want to go home. 399 00:26:22,212 --> 00:26:24,031 You cannot leave, Gherardo. You are the oldest 400 00:26:24,098 --> 00:26:27,133 and are therefore required to oversee each vote. 401 00:26:27,201 --> 00:26:29,336 Cardinal Severino and I will take care of you. 402 00:26:29,403 --> 00:26:30,703 Are there any more sweets? 403 00:26:30,738 --> 00:26:32,923 Your next meal will not be till morning. 404 00:26:33,424 --> 00:26:35,441 Do you have any bread? 405 00:26:35,509 --> 00:26:39,029 The sooner we finish, the sooner you can return to Venice. 406 00:26:39,097 --> 00:26:41,048 You remember who you are to vote for, yes? 407 00:26:42,199 --> 00:26:43,816 A little piece of bread? 408 00:26:48,806 --> 00:26:50,640 Without guilt holding man in his place, 409 00:26:50,708 --> 00:26:53,343 we would reach a higher plane. 410 00:26:53,410 --> 00:26:56,362 Guilt is the final barrier between each of us and the divine. 411 00:26:56,430 --> 00:26:59,448 So your theorem is that the feeling of guilt is unnatural? 412 00:26:59,516 --> 00:27:00,950 Yes. 413 00:27:01,018 --> 00:27:02,702 Joy, pain, 414 00:27:02,770 --> 00:27:05,155 these are clearly present in lower creatures of nature 415 00:27:05,222 --> 00:27:07,690 and, therefore, are obvious creations of God. 416 00:27:07,758 --> 00:27:09,910 But the sensation of guilt 417 00:27:09,977 --> 00:27:12,678 is present solely in man, 418 00:27:12,746 --> 00:27:16,466 hence is a device of man, not our Lord. 419 00:27:16,533 --> 00:27:18,668 Cesare, you shall act as arguenti. 420 00:27:22,022 --> 00:27:23,773 Guilt was created for what reason? 421 00:27:23,841 --> 00:27:25,925 For man to enslave himself? No. 422 00:27:25,993 --> 00:27:28,495 Without the sensation of guilt, the hierarchy are afraid 423 00:27:28,562 --> 00:27:30,346 the individual would run free 424 00:27:30,414 --> 00:27:31,547 and there would be no order. 425 00:27:31,615 --> 00:27:33,599 Without order, there is no power. 426 00:27:33,667 --> 00:27:36,169 Guilt forces each of us to surrender our will, 427 00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:39,472 our souls to those who should not possess them. 428 00:27:39,540 --> 00:27:43,443 So are you saying that the men who are in power do not deserve to rule? 429 00:27:43,510 --> 00:27:45,361 His Eminence, Cardinal Borgia? No. 430 00:27:45,429 --> 00:27:48,147 Then do you believe the kings and the cardinals are correct? 431 00:27:48,215 --> 00:27:50,900 That without guilt there would be hell on earth? 432 00:27:50,968 --> 00:27:53,420 Without guilt, there would be heaven on earth. 433 00:27:53,488 --> 00:27:54,938 Man could be who he wants to be, 434 00:27:55,839 --> 00:27:57,357 love who he loves. 435 00:27:58,776 --> 00:28:02,261 Cesare, if you could excise guilt from your life, 436 00:28:02,330 --> 00:28:03,730 here and now, 437 00:28:03,797 --> 00:28:05,648 with whom would your relationship be changed? 438 00:28:06,584 --> 00:28:08,618 God? Or Rodrigo Borgia? 439 00:28:18,829 --> 00:28:22,899 Vannozza, His Eminence has forbidden you to visit Lucrezia. 440 00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:25,201 Call to him, yell with all your might. 441 00:28:25,269 --> 00:28:27,036 See if His Eminence can hear you. 442 00:28:30,424 --> 00:28:32,709 Mother? Yes. 443 00:28:32,777 --> 00:28:35,511 I am here, my sweet girl. 444 00:28:35,579 --> 00:28:38,431 Where is Goffredo? Is he well? 445 00:28:38,498 --> 00:28:41,600 He is fine. Home. With my husband. 446 00:28:42,937 --> 00:28:44,470 I am so sorry. 447 00:28:45,639 --> 00:28:47,974 About little Ottaviano. 448 00:28:48,042 --> 00:28:49,843 About not coming when you were ill. 449 00:28:50,727 --> 00:28:51,727 Hush. 450 00:28:54,481 --> 00:28:56,482 We are together now. 451 00:29:14,001 --> 00:29:15,818 Lucrezia. 452 00:29:17,588 --> 00:29:19,138 Fever. 453 00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:23,443 Worse. 454 00:29:41,111 --> 00:29:42,979 Sforza has gained another vote. 455 00:29:43,981 --> 00:29:44,981 Who? 456 00:29:47,018 --> 00:29:48,685 I'm sworn to secrecy. 457 00:29:49,904 --> 00:29:52,822 There are all sorts of secrets. 458 00:30:04,585 --> 00:30:06,519 You have lost San Severino. 459 00:30:07,805 --> 00:30:09,639 Come in. 460 00:30:10,541 --> 00:30:13,009 Federigo... Go away. 461 00:30:13,077 --> 00:30:15,212 I have heard enough from you. 462 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:18,248 About you. I know the truth. 463 00:30:18,316 --> 00:30:20,783 Whose? My truth? Or Sforza's? 464 00:30:20,851 --> 00:30:24,354 You have stolen the papal treasury from the Castel Sant'Angelo. 465 00:30:24,422 --> 00:30:27,457 Nonsense. I have safeguarded it. 466 00:30:29,977 --> 00:30:32,078 I do not want to hurt you. 467 00:30:33,014 --> 00:30:34,014 Go. 468 00:30:39,219 --> 00:30:42,255 My dear Savelli, I'm down to six votes. 469 00:30:42,323 --> 00:30:44,857 You, de Medici, Piccolomini, 470 00:30:44,925 --> 00:30:47,727 della Porta, Gherardo, and myself. 471 00:30:48,663 --> 00:30:50,330 Tomorrow morning, we vote. 472 00:30:51,749 --> 00:30:54,400 I will be out before I have a chance to get in. 473 00:30:54,468 --> 00:30:56,052 How many votes does he have? 474 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,020 Jorge Costa? 475 00:30:58,022 --> 00:31:00,056 Three? Four? 476 00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:04,978 His capitulation could get you to nine or even 10 in the first round. 477 00:31:14,906 --> 00:31:16,139 Jorge. 478 00:31:17,008 --> 00:31:18,275 Vice Chancellor. 479 00:31:19,977 --> 00:31:24,864 Portugal and Spain sit side-by-side on the Iberian Peninsula. 480 00:31:24,931 --> 00:31:28,168 Shall you and I be collaborators 481 00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:29,902 or competitors? 482 00:31:29,970 --> 00:31:32,923 We two are the only non-Italians here. 483 00:31:32,990 --> 00:31:34,590 You should align with me. 484 00:31:35,242 --> 00:31:37,276 Or you me. 485 00:31:37,345 --> 00:31:40,029 There is a wall around Rome. 486 00:31:40,097 --> 00:31:42,582 And there is another wall around the wall. 487 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,736 Made of hands. Hands grabbing for coins. 488 00:31:46,803 --> 00:31:49,655 The poor have empty hands, my dear Costa, 489 00:31:49,723 --> 00:31:51,374 but their palms are small. 490 00:31:51,442 --> 00:31:54,644 Not so small that they cannot pick up knives and clubs, 491 00:31:54,712 --> 00:31:57,880 which will happen if we do not reform the church. 492 00:31:57,948 --> 00:32:00,033 We shall be murdered in our beds. 493 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:01,751 I agree. 494 00:32:01,819 --> 00:32:03,870 That is why, if chosen, 495 00:32:03,938 --> 00:32:07,073 I will, like a potter at his wheel, mold a new church. 496 00:32:07,141 --> 00:32:09,809 Yes. With your big hands. 497 00:32:09,877 --> 00:32:13,096 Always reaching beyond your grasp. 498 00:32:13,164 --> 00:32:15,382 You have no chance of being elected. 499 00:32:15,449 --> 00:32:16,882 I am a Borgia. 500 00:32:18,152 --> 00:32:19,619 I leave nothing to chance. 501 00:32:23,124 --> 00:32:27,410 I promise upon the death of my soul 502 00:32:27,478 --> 00:32:33,016 to trust the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost alone, 503 00:32:33,083 --> 00:32:37,687 for inspiration and for this election. 504 00:32:43,510 --> 00:32:45,010 Quiet! 505 00:32:45,963 --> 00:32:47,079 So hot. 506 00:32:47,147 --> 00:32:49,833 We have been at this all day. 507 00:32:49,900 --> 00:32:51,067 The notion is a good one. 508 00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:53,937 Good, yes, but not of the moment. 509 00:32:54,004 --> 00:32:56,805 This is the moment. The only moment. 510 00:32:56,873 --> 00:32:59,242 The streets are awash with blood. 511 00:32:59,260 --> 00:33:01,927 The people think there is no God if there is no pope. 512 00:33:01,995 --> 00:33:05,698 Yet we remain mired discussing Costa's rules. 513 00:33:05,766 --> 00:33:08,918 Yes, rules, Colonna. We all acknowledge 514 00:33:08,986 --> 00:33:11,721 that elements in Holy Mother Church are corrupt, 515 00:33:11,789 --> 00:33:14,908 that the papacy itself is rotted to the core. 516 00:33:14,975 --> 00:33:18,143 Unless we impose rules upon the next pope, 517 00:33:18,211 --> 00:33:20,096 the disease will spread. 518 00:33:20,163 --> 00:33:25,268 But we must be careful not to cure the disease and kill the body. 519 00:33:25,335 --> 00:33:28,104 I support the restrictions on papal authority. 520 00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:30,140 But an oath? Yes. 521 00:33:30,207 --> 00:33:31,541 A vow? 522 00:33:31,609 --> 00:33:33,893 To make whoever sits on the throne beholden to us. 523 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,128 As if he is a child. 524 00:33:36,196 --> 00:33:39,515 You cannot bind the Supreme Pontiff of the universal church 525 00:33:39,583 --> 00:33:41,084 any more than you can the wind. 526 00:33:41,251 --> 00:33:43,152 I would not be able to endorse any candidate 527 00:33:43,220 --> 00:33:46,122 who does not support Costa's mandate. 528 00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:50,894 First and foremost, a limit on the number of cardinals. 529 00:33:50,961 --> 00:33:52,595 Yes. 530 00:33:52,663 --> 00:33:55,848 Too many have bought their way into this chapel. 531 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,978 All agree we must have change! 532 00:34:25,045 --> 00:34:27,813 The rest is simply a question of law. 533 00:34:27,882 --> 00:34:31,184 There are only 10 laws. The Holy Commandments. 534 00:34:31,252 --> 00:34:32,852 And few of us honor those. 535 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,220 How dare you. 536 00:34:34,288 --> 00:34:38,257 How dare I? I earned my red biretta. 537 00:34:38,325 --> 00:34:40,292 I wasn't simply handed an archdiocese 538 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,328 because my name is Orsini or Colonna. 539 00:34:42,396 --> 00:34:43,462 Costa. 540 00:34:44,130 --> 00:34:45,464 You go too far. 541 00:34:45,532 --> 00:34:47,484 No, not far enough. 542 00:34:47,551 --> 00:34:52,071 If we expect a lowly, starving peasant to follow the Word of God, 543 00:34:52,138 --> 00:34:53,305 then why not us? 544 00:34:53,373 --> 00:34:55,758 The pope is the Word of God. 545 00:34:55,826 --> 00:34:59,728 Then let the man who will be pope give us his word 546 00:34:59,797 --> 00:35:01,864 before he takes responsibility for God's. 547 00:35:01,932 --> 00:35:04,633 I say we pray for guidance. 548 00:35:04,701 --> 00:35:07,736 Exactly. Guidance. 549 00:35:07,805 --> 00:35:11,540 Let the new Sovereign Pontiff receive guidance from us. 550 00:35:11,608 --> 00:35:12,925 Guidelines. 551 00:35:12,992 --> 00:35:14,827 Guidelines are an excuse to do nothing. 552 00:35:14,894 --> 00:35:18,264 He is relentless. Even a mule stops kicking after a while. 553 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,069 To give man-made laws to a man who will no longer be a man is... 554 00:35:23,137 --> 00:35:24,470 Is ridiculous! 555 00:35:24,538 --> 00:35:26,706 Even a Portuguese should recognize that! 556 00:35:26,907 --> 00:35:27,807 Let us pray. 557 00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,409 Yes, pray for a cool breeze. 558 00:35:30,477 --> 00:35:33,545 For divine help in writing guidelines. 559 00:35:33,613 --> 00:35:35,465 Non-binding guidelines. 560 00:35:35,533 --> 00:35:39,218 On Judgment Day, you will be called into account for this. 561 00:35:39,286 --> 00:35:40,787 - All of you. - Enough! 562 00:35:42,089 --> 00:35:43,790 Because of this bickering, 563 00:35:43,857 --> 00:35:46,542 we have not had a single vote 564 00:35:46,609 --> 00:35:50,145 on the only real reason we are here, 565 00:35:50,213 --> 00:35:52,081 to fill Saint Peter's shoes. 566 00:35:52,649 --> 00:35:53,649 I say 567 00:35:55,352 --> 00:35:57,720 we put aside Costa's motion. 568 00:35:57,787 --> 00:35:59,422 I second. 569 00:35:59,489 --> 00:36:00,556 All in favor. 570 00:36:00,624 --> 00:36:02,758 Yea. 571 00:36:03,427 --> 00:36:05,043 Opposed? 572 00:36:05,111 --> 00:36:06,646 Nay. Nay. 573 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:09,181 Abstentions? 574 00:36:13,687 --> 00:36:15,922 Let us move on to the first ballot. 575 00:37:14,431 --> 00:37:17,683 Della Rovere, eight. 576 00:37:18,718 --> 00:37:21,620 Sforza, eight. 577 00:37:22,706 --> 00:37:25,291 Borgia, six. 578 00:37:27,895 --> 00:37:31,213 Carafa, four. 579 00:37:31,282 --> 00:37:32,848 Make an offer to Piccolomini. 580 00:37:32,916 --> 00:37:35,234 And Costa... 581 00:37:35,986 --> 00:37:38,153 Costa, one. 582 00:37:41,975 --> 00:37:43,843 Not sufficient for election. 583 00:38:24,101 --> 00:38:26,702 The Italians have treated you like an old whore. 584 00:38:26,769 --> 00:38:29,388 I no longer want to be considered. 585 00:38:29,456 --> 00:38:31,089 Spread the word. 586 00:38:31,157 --> 00:38:34,693 I know you are most able at doling out bad news. 587 00:38:34,761 --> 00:38:37,714 My dear Costa, why do you not see that I'm your ally? 588 00:38:37,781 --> 00:38:40,599 I believe in the same goals as you. 589 00:38:40,667 --> 00:38:43,069 In voting for my rules, you abstained. 590 00:38:43,971 --> 00:38:45,854 In order to remain neutral. 591 00:38:45,922 --> 00:38:49,274 Yes, you are the ultimate bureaucrat. 592 00:38:49,342 --> 00:38:51,794 A part of the Curia for over 30 years. 593 00:38:51,862 --> 00:38:53,713 You are the whore. 594 00:38:53,780 --> 00:38:56,698 Look, I do understand that the past cannot be the future. 595 00:38:56,766 --> 00:38:59,819 I repeat, I will change the church, Rome, if elected. 596 00:38:59,886 --> 00:39:01,387 And in God's name. 597 00:39:01,455 --> 00:39:04,874 In God's name, you should recuse yourself from the race. 598 00:39:04,941 --> 00:39:08,378 You received one vote, I am guessing your own. 599 00:39:08,445 --> 00:39:10,780 There are six among us who think I should be pope. 600 00:39:12,098 --> 00:39:13,816 There will be more. 601 00:39:34,587 --> 00:39:36,088 Cesare. 602 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,728 A boy. 603 00:40:02,249 --> 00:40:04,049 I have chosen a name for him. 604 00:40:06,403 --> 00:40:07,937 Cesare. 605 00:40:09,272 --> 00:40:12,475 So that when you are far, you are also close. 606 00:40:20,967 --> 00:40:23,385 And I tell you, we must find a different doctor, 607 00:40:23,453 --> 00:40:25,053 not one of these country butchers, 608 00:40:25,121 --> 00:40:26,856 who believes the cure will come from a potion 609 00:40:26,923 --> 00:40:29,859 made of goat's blood and crushed sea shells. 610 00:40:29,926 --> 00:40:31,861 We could send to Rome for the pope's physician. 611 00:40:31,928 --> 00:40:34,296 The pope's physician killed him. 612 00:40:34,364 --> 00:40:36,431 I've already lost one child to this fever, 613 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:38,166 I will not lose another! 614 00:40:38,234 --> 00:40:41,303 We must ask for the intercession of Saint Petronilla. 615 00:40:41,371 --> 00:40:43,539 Expose Lucrezia to the sacred relic... 616 00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:45,674 Superstitious claptrap. 617 00:40:45,742 --> 00:40:47,009 Unless it works. 618 00:41:06,763 --> 00:41:09,297 Kiss the lips of Saint Petronilla. 619 00:41:11,401 --> 00:41:13,168 You must. 620 00:41:15,972 --> 00:41:17,907 Do not be afraid. 621 00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:21,760 See? 622 00:41:48,304 --> 00:41:49,805 Come. 623 00:41:51,374 --> 00:41:55,611 We are in trouble. Della Rovere has a letter, 624 00:41:55,679 --> 00:41:58,330 a 30-year-old letter from Pope Pius, 625 00:41:58,415 --> 00:42:01,500 rebuking you for attending an orgy. 626 00:42:01,568 --> 00:42:03,185 Della Rovere had the letter smuggled in? 627 00:42:03,252 --> 00:42:04,654 That is forbidden. 628 00:42:04,721 --> 00:42:06,722 He says Piccolomini came to him. 629 00:42:08,741 --> 00:42:11,193 My old friend Piccolomini. 630 00:42:11,260 --> 00:42:14,547 "We have learned, Rodrigo, 631 00:42:14,614 --> 00:42:19,618 "that in Siena you spent the afternoon with several women. 632 00:42:19,686 --> 00:42:22,788 "That the most wanton dances were performed, 633 00:42:22,856 --> 00:42:25,524 "filled with amorous allurements. 634 00:42:27,026 --> 00:42:29,729 "In order to give free rein to your lusts, 635 00:42:29,796 --> 00:42:35,735 "the husbands, fathers and brothers of the young women were not admitted. 636 00:42:35,869 --> 00:42:39,321 "We leave you to judge whether you can indulge yourself 637 00:42:39,389 --> 00:42:41,640 "in every kind of perversion 638 00:42:41,708 --> 00:42:46,528 "without surrendering the sanctity of your high office." 639 00:42:48,415 --> 00:42:53,069 The words of my uncle, Pope Pius, indict you. 640 00:42:54,203 --> 00:42:55,855 June of 1460? 641 00:42:57,190 --> 00:42:59,474 I was in Siena, yes. 642 00:43:00,993 --> 00:43:03,328 At the home of Giovanni Bichi. 643 00:43:03,396 --> 00:43:05,131 His son's baptism. 644 00:43:05,198 --> 00:43:07,933 Are you denying Pius' accusations? 645 00:43:08,001 --> 00:43:10,786 I am sorry, Francesco. 646 00:43:10,854 --> 00:43:13,555 Though we've been friends for over 30 years, 647 00:43:14,507 --> 00:43:16,975 I can no longer protect you. 648 00:43:17,043 --> 00:43:18,977 This letter is a forgery. 649 00:43:19,045 --> 00:43:23,165 No! I was there when my uncle wrote the damn thing. 650 00:43:23,232 --> 00:43:25,717 Then why wait until now to show it? 651 00:43:25,785 --> 00:43:28,437 Twice before I have endeavored to win the papacy 652 00:43:28,505 --> 00:43:32,057 and you happily carried my banner. 653 00:43:32,125 --> 00:43:35,660 I wonder what could have caused this change in my dear colleague's heart? 654 00:43:40,884 --> 00:43:43,719 I hope you have been well paid. 655 00:43:43,787 --> 00:43:46,405 You were a man I always looked to for the truth. 656 00:43:48,291 --> 00:43:53,595 My brothers, it is time for the afternoon vote. 657 00:44:03,473 --> 00:44:05,908 Sforza, eight. 658 00:44:07,377 --> 00:44:10,212 Carafa, five. 659 00:44:11,031 --> 00:44:14,015 Borgia, five. 660 00:44:15,434 --> 00:44:16,501 Della Rovere... 661 00:44:17,187 --> 00:44:18,854 Nine. 662 00:44:18,922 --> 00:44:20,723 Della Rovere is on the rise. 663 00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:23,392 Be ready. We may need to run. 664 00:44:26,712 --> 00:44:29,181 Not sufficient for election. 665 00:44:38,291 --> 00:44:42,194 For Cardinal San Severino, who perspires with worry. 666 00:44:49,536 --> 00:44:51,403 Come in. 667 00:44:51,471 --> 00:44:53,939 Some relief, if only brief. 668 00:44:56,075 --> 00:44:57,810 Give your cardinal my thanks. 669 00:45:16,596 --> 00:45:18,330 He looked me straight in the eyes. 670 00:45:18,398 --> 00:45:21,533 He was like a man, full-grown. 671 00:45:21,601 --> 00:45:25,553 Was he blessed like all Borgias? 672 00:45:25,621 --> 00:45:27,790 He was already as big as you, Alessandro. 673 00:45:29,392 --> 00:45:34,329 My son is the most extraordinary creation on God's earth. 674 00:45:38,167 --> 00:45:39,317 God. 675 00:45:41,437 --> 00:45:43,405 Give God a rest for the night. 676 00:46:09,699 --> 00:46:10,732 Who are you? 677 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,135 Do you not know me, sweet Lucrezia? 678 00:46:13,203 --> 00:46:14,669 Cesare? No. 679 00:46:17,907 --> 00:46:19,641 Your one, true love. 680 00:46:20,710 --> 00:46:23,178 Rumor from Rome. Della Rovere leads. 681 00:46:24,180 --> 00:46:25,631 My fault. 682 00:46:25,699 --> 00:46:27,349 Cesare, 683 00:46:27,417 --> 00:46:31,086 you are not responsible for the fate of Rodrigo Borgia. 684 00:46:31,154 --> 00:46:32,705 After taking the vow of celibacy, 685 00:46:32,772 --> 00:46:36,674 he sired seven children. You have but one. 686 00:46:36,742 --> 00:46:38,209 But there's no going back for either of you, 687 00:46:38,278 --> 00:46:40,262 so be like him, move forward. 688 00:46:40,330 --> 00:46:42,665 That is what I fear. 689 00:46:42,732 --> 00:46:44,983 Because of me, my lust, 690 00:46:45,051 --> 00:46:47,185 we Borgias shall not move forward. 691 00:46:48,304 --> 00:46:50,388 To think of Rodrigo's fierce gaze, 692 00:46:51,140 --> 00:46:52,807 or worse, 693 00:46:52,909 --> 00:46:54,260 his frigid indifference. 694 00:46:56,696 --> 00:46:57,863 No. 695 00:46:57,930 --> 00:46:59,831 We live at a momentous time, 696 00:46:59,899 --> 00:47:02,033 which calls for supreme sacrifice. 697 00:47:03,303 --> 00:47:06,037 The ultimate sacrifice. 698 00:47:06,105 --> 00:47:09,541 To prove to God that we are worthy of His blessing. 699 00:47:13,713 --> 00:47:15,948 I must act, and at once. 700 00:47:17,617 --> 00:47:20,051 To rectify the sin I have committed. 701 00:47:26,859 --> 00:47:28,960 Father, if You are willing, 702 00:47:30,095 --> 00:47:32,731 take this cup from me. 703 00:47:32,798 --> 00:47:36,802 But then not my will but Yours be done. 704 00:47:37,887 --> 00:47:39,337 Lucrezia? 705 00:47:41,041 --> 00:47:41,990 Lucrezia? 706 00:48:12,838 --> 00:48:15,807 Already the room is too hot. 707 00:48:15,875 --> 00:48:18,310 Gherardo's breathing grows labored. 708 00:48:19,612 --> 00:48:21,813 If he dies, we might have a tie. 709 00:48:21,881 --> 00:48:24,633 I cannot wait until the others arrive. 710 00:48:24,701 --> 00:48:27,202 I could not sleep. I could not think. 711 00:48:35,278 --> 00:48:40,149 The King of France has given 200,000 ducats to one of us 712 00:48:40,216 --> 00:48:42,000 in order to buy his election. 713 00:48:42,068 --> 00:48:43,235 What? 714 00:48:43,302 --> 00:48:44,469 Which man? 715 00:48:44,537 --> 00:48:46,205 Giuliano della Rovere. 716 00:48:46,207 --> 00:48:47,689 Impossible! 717 00:48:47,757 --> 00:48:50,058 On what basis have you made this accusation? 718 00:48:50,076 --> 00:48:53,795 A list of each cardinal and how much they are to receive, 719 00:48:53,863 --> 00:48:55,764 including Piccolomini, 720 00:48:55,832 --> 00:48:59,535 who was paid to reveal Pope Pius' letter, with French money. 721 00:48:59,602 --> 00:49:02,805 Never! I despise the King of France. 722 00:49:02,872 --> 00:49:05,006 As do I. When I saw this, 723 00:49:05,074 --> 00:49:06,809 I could no longer bite my tongue. 724 00:49:06,876 --> 00:49:08,477 Let me see the document. 725 00:49:08,545 --> 00:49:10,529 To see it is to accept it. 726 00:49:13,599 --> 00:49:17,235 At first, I wanted to destroy the letter. 727 00:49:17,303 --> 00:49:20,872 And perhaps I should have. 728 00:49:20,940 --> 00:49:23,909 Perhaps the Lord held back my hand. 729 00:49:23,976 --> 00:49:26,177 Are you an agent of King Charles? 730 00:49:29,131 --> 00:49:32,417 He shakes his head like a French marionette. 731 00:49:32,485 --> 00:49:35,254 My uncle was pope. 732 00:49:35,321 --> 00:49:38,207 No matter how the Conclave came to choose him, 733 00:49:38,274 --> 00:49:40,041 he was never traitor to Italy. 734 00:49:43,295 --> 00:49:46,665 Discharge of an old man is a frightening sight. 735 00:49:46,733 --> 00:49:48,667 I have shown them the letter. 736 00:49:49,636 --> 00:49:51,202 You gave him this? 737 00:49:52,204 --> 00:49:53,204 Yes. 738 00:49:53,940 --> 00:49:56,174 How did you come by it? 739 00:49:56,242 --> 00:49:57,559 There are many in the French court 740 00:49:57,626 --> 00:49:59,827 who fear a della Rovere papacy. 741 00:49:59,895 --> 00:50:00,895 Liar! 742 00:50:00,963 --> 00:50:02,164 I am the liar? 743 00:50:03,199 --> 00:50:06,351 You are a hypocrite. 744 00:50:06,419 --> 00:50:07,352 I will kill you. 745 00:50:13,793 --> 00:50:16,495 Stop! Charlatans! 746 00:50:18,464 --> 00:50:23,185 This is my first Conclave and I have tried to keep silent. 747 00:50:23,253 --> 00:50:25,904 We refuse to write down Costa's simple rules, 748 00:50:25,972 --> 00:50:28,824 but we pass letters door-to-door through the night. 749 00:50:28,892 --> 00:50:33,295 While a city, a world, waits for us! 750 00:50:33,362 --> 00:50:36,081 The young Cardinal of Florence is right. 751 00:50:36,149 --> 00:50:37,415 No more letters. 752 00:50:37,483 --> 00:50:39,268 Pity. Only words. 753 00:50:40,002 --> 00:50:41,653 Spoken and true. 754 00:50:42,188 --> 00:50:44,356 More than our words, 755 00:50:44,423 --> 00:50:46,875 our actions must speak true. 756 00:50:50,229 --> 00:50:53,314 Sforza, eight. 757 00:50:54,233 --> 00:50:57,001 Carafa, seven. 758 00:50:58,337 --> 00:51:01,356 Della Porta, four. 759 00:51:02,658 --> 00:51:05,010 Della Rovere, four. 760 00:51:05,511 --> 00:51:06,511 Four? 761 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:08,780 Four, you say? 762 00:51:15,588 --> 00:51:17,622 Borgia, four. 763 00:51:19,943 --> 00:51:22,110 Not sufficient for election. 764 00:51:24,163 --> 00:51:26,064 I had not expected to lose a vote, 765 00:51:26,131 --> 00:51:28,650 but to gain some from those who deserted della Rovere. 766 00:51:28,717 --> 00:51:33,788 They're angry at him for the betrayal and at you for exposing it. 767 00:51:33,856 --> 00:51:35,723 Was that letter a forgery? 768 00:51:35,791 --> 00:51:38,327 The actual parchment, yes, but the details were true. 769 00:51:49,238 --> 00:51:51,673 Has della Porta abandoned me? 770 00:51:51,740 --> 00:51:53,508 And which four cardinals voted for him? 771 00:51:53,575 --> 00:51:56,477 I will find out before the next scrutiny. 772 00:51:56,545 --> 00:51:58,013 Do not give up hope. 773 00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,431 Hope? 774 00:51:59,499 --> 00:52:02,384 On my last trip back from Spain, almost 20 years ago, 775 00:52:02,452 --> 00:52:05,303 our vessels hit a violent storm off Pisa. 776 00:52:05,371 --> 00:52:07,171 One ship sank to the bottom. 777 00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,308 Two hundred souls, including three bishops were drowned. 778 00:52:10,375 --> 00:52:12,678 And then, as if God meant to punish me further, 779 00:52:12,745 --> 00:52:15,513 we were attacked by Muslim pirates. 780 00:52:15,515 --> 00:52:19,501 I was beaten, robbed of 30,000 ducats. 781 00:52:19,569 --> 00:52:22,203 I survived not out of hope, 782 00:52:22,271 --> 00:52:24,839 but because I do not know how to do anything else. 783 00:52:26,575 --> 00:52:30,678 Besides, there is a certain sweet revenge 784 00:52:30,746 --> 00:52:34,015 in being tied with della Rovere for last place. 785 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,902 So Abraham rose early in the morning 786 00:52:54,970 --> 00:52:57,388 and took his two servants with him 787 00:52:57,456 --> 00:52:59,992 and his son, Isaac. 788 00:53:00,059 --> 00:53:01,759 He said to the servants, 789 00:53:02,428 --> 00:53:03,895 "Stay here. 790 00:53:03,963 --> 00:53:07,832 "I and the lad will go up further and worship and come again to you." 791 00:53:07,900 --> 00:53:10,135 And Isaac said to Abraham, 792 00:53:10,203 --> 00:53:12,770 "But where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" 793 00:53:12,838 --> 00:53:14,839 Abraham replied, 794 00:53:14,907 --> 00:53:18,577 "God will provide Himself the lamb for the burnt offering." 795 00:53:18,644 --> 00:53:21,829 And the angel of the Lord called down from heaven and said, 796 00:53:23,032 --> 00:53:25,500 "Because you have done this 797 00:53:25,568 --> 00:53:27,569 "and you have not withheld your son, 798 00:53:28,204 --> 00:53:29,304 "your only son, 799 00:53:32,575 --> 00:53:33,642 "I will indeed 800 00:53:35,127 --> 00:53:36,278 "bless you." 801 00:54:04,423 --> 00:54:07,559 Cesare, where is your son? Where is the baby? 802 00:54:09,028 --> 00:54:11,113 Do you want to die? Cesare. 803 00:54:11,180 --> 00:54:12,781 There is a man and there is his word 804 00:54:12,849 --> 00:54:14,315 and the two must be the same.