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Giovanni Sforza.

And my cousin,
Catherina Sforza.

You would have a
taste of vengeance.

The king
is on the move.

He says he will
use his cannon

to reduce our
walls to dust.

We fight fire with fire.

You tricked the French King

and now he comes
for our blood!

Do you expect us to
support you twice?

Do you know what this is?

It is the fresco you have so
graciously commissioned.

But it lacks a model.

I would restore this hair

to what it was
before God snatched it from me.

Will we meet again,
Holy Father?

Perhaps.
Am I to be your mistress then?

No.

That position is taken.

We will have you go
through your accounts

with one we have designated
to supervise them.

Unthinkable!

That monies destined to the
poor should go to the poor?

That a woman have access
to curatorial accounts.

The French are
advancing from Naples.

They may murder th
Borgia pe for you.

We would discuss
another cousin

in whose hands the survival
of our papacy may lie.

Your Holiness refers
to the Duke of Milan.

This is true artistry.

Indeed, my lord.
It is but plaster.

There are-
Ninety-five more like it-

making their way from other
foundries as we speak.

You are denied entry
to Rome, my liege.

My cannon will gain me entry.

Perhaps my cannon will make
their statement first.

I warn you!

I shall take terrible revenge!

On you, your family,

and the papacy itself!

Retreat!

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The saving of Rome.

So, of what exact
were these cannon made?

Plaster, Your Holiness.

Plaster!

And an armature of wood.

Senior Vittorio had every
cast maker in Rome at work,

day and night.

We had not the
bronze nor the time.

So, deception has
a place in warfare.

As in life.
Indeed.

If you will excuse me,
Holy Father.

You come to celebrate,
I hope.

The Finch came by
the road from Ostia.

So?

Their path took them by
the convent of St. Cecelia.

You have bad news?

Is there any other kind,
Your Eminence?

Hah!

Hah! Come on!

We need some blankets.

-have at her.

You should spare yourself this,
Your Eminence.

Why?
Why should I spare myself?

I should have foreseen this.

Your Eminence.

Ursula.

She chose God,
Micheletto.

And God repaid her
with mutilation.

I know little of God,
Your Eminence.

God is deaf, God is blind,
and pitiless.

She has released my heart...

of all emotions but one.

Vengeance.

Vengeance is sweet.

So who did this, my friend?

The French.

This flag belongs to
the cavalry of Gascony.

These women were
sport for army scouts.

Scouts.

They are renowned
for their savagery.

Necklaces
of severed ears.

...the bodies.

We must give them a
lesson, then, in outrage.

You were once a stray dog,
Micheletto, masterless.

I found my master in you.

There must be other stray
dogs out there in Rome.

There are many.

Sons of warlike families,

condottieri who have long
outlived their usefulness.

Search out a dozen of them

whom we can school in
the art of vengeance.

Holy Father.

Ah.

I have heard whispers about
your beautiful deception.

My congratulations.

Deceit is how we must
conduct ourselves, it seems.

Cardinal Sforza brings a
proposition from his cousin,

Ludovico of Milan.

At how the French can be
defeated in open field.

Forgive me for remembering,
Cardinal.

Is this the same
Ludovico Sforza

who gave the French free
passage through Milan?

Ludovico Sforza has
received overtures.

From the doge of Venice.

From Francesco,
the Duke of Mantua.

To form a league to expel
the French from our peninsula.

But your other cousin,
Catherina Sforza,

rides with them.

She has the arms
she needed

and has retired at
her castle at Forli.

And we forgive her
such treachery?

Perhaps.
For the moment.

Priorities can change,
Cardinal Borgia.

Indeed they can.

Welcome to Rome!

Greetings!

What is this?

I have been told by
my friend Micheletto

that you know each
other well enough

to happily hate each other.

I definitely do hate you,
Battista.

You piece of piss,
Orsini.

As a Colonna, I despise you
and your sorry dick.

But there is one you
probably hate more.

Who has ravaged your lands,

your families'
estates, your women,

on their march
to Naples?

The French.

Yes, yes.
The French.

You think we can
defeat an army?

No.

No, my brother tried that
and he failed.

But, but we can
have us some sport.

We can taste revenge.

We can strike them at night

and move like smoke
in the darkness.

Huh?

To what end,
Cardinal?

On your side, booty.

On ours, revenge.

We will ride out,
camouflaged, masked.

No one will know
of our existence.

Any volunteers?

I have broached the
matter of a league

with His Holiness.

He seems receptive.

He can be tempted
into battle?

He can be tempted
by anything-

that gets him out
of those papal robes.

Your Holiness,
may I introduce my cousin,

Ludovico Sforza,
the Duke of Milan?

Your Holiness,

may I introduce
Francesco Gonzaga,

Duke of Mantua, and
his new minted bride,

the lovely Duchessa Bianca.

Divine indeed.

Do diplomatic affairs

not bore you rigid,
Duchessa?

They do, Your Holiness,

but my husband's affections
more than compensate.

Ah.

If I may be so bold,
Your Holiness,

we have all of us one
thing in common today.

What, suspicion?
Of each other?

Or is it hatred?

If the cardinal will
let me finish...

Indeed.

The cardinal would find
how hatred turns to love.

My son!

The French have laid
waste to the papal states

as they march northwards.

Their king intends
leave a desert behind him.

By the time he reaches Milan,

there will be nothing left
of this paradise we live in.

So why did you
welcome them in?

Our proposal is that the
armies of Venice, of Milan,

of the Duke of
Mantua will combine

to rid us of this
French plague.

Twenty thousand of our troops

will meet them
near the Apennines.

We will annihilate their army

and restore the reputation
of Tuscan valour.

Tuscan?
And Milanese.

Not to speak of Roman.

Under whose leadership?

Under the leadership
of Francesco Gonzaga,

Duke of Mantua.

With the blessing
of His Holiness,

the Pope of Rome.

His Holiness has
proved his courage

to the whole of Italy.

And the whole of Italy
will rally to his cause.

Then why not just
let the French

limp their way home?

One word.
Honour.

Honour?

The word meant something once,
did it not?

talks of honour, Father.

There is nothing-

Interesting concept
honour, isn't it?

Like its cousin, valour.

Honour has cousins?

Oh, many cousins.

Like Cardinal Sforza?

And they've all led kings
and armies to their doom.

So why we should now

make common cause
with Milan?

Because, when the French have
left this fair paradise,

the Milanese will
still be with us.

So?

This league cannot
beat the French...

even in their weakened state.

And I doubt the French
can beat this league.

So if the two armies batter
each other to death,

as the lawyers
often say,

cui bono?

Who benefits?
Mm.

A weakened Milan,
a weakened Venice,

a weakened Mantua-

has to be worth a weekend
in Tuscany, surely?

Stately.

Where is he?

He must be here somewhere.

I hear you before I see you.

Yes?

You line your
scabbard with cotton.

You want the French
to hear you coming?

Lose your spurs.
All of you.

And wear only soft leather.

Understood?

Condottieri!
Come.

When the scouts ride
ahead of the French army,

we'll be waiting for them.

We have the light crossbow,

the Spanish garrotte,

the trident,

the paso doble.

Raven's beak.

With weapons like these,

we can reinvent combat.

Now there is talk
of a pitched battle.

Of something called honour.

Let us show them another way.

Should His Holiness not
be fitted in armour?

We fight the wars
of God, not of man.

Then why travel
with the league?

There will be war,
surely.

They would have
our blessing.

You could have
given it by proxy.

But the dead will have
to be prayed over

Mm.

I know you, Holy Father,

and know you always
have many ends in view.

Perhaps.

If the armies of men will
annihilate each other,

what will be left?

The army of God.

I would beg your
permission, then,

in your absence,

to investigate the office
of public works even further.

For more irregularities?

There are so many,
Holy Father,

in this Vatican of yours.

Yes.

The army's about 30 miles
south, moving slowly.

And the Gascon scouts?

Only about ten miles,
at the most.

Checking the army's route.

They ride hard.

They will be hungry.

Condottieri!
Let's go.

Up, up.

The French are coming!

They're coming!

People!
Make ready!

They're coming!
Hurry!

Get the children!

Tuer tout le monde!

The voile libre.

There's nobody here!

A wedding party.

Without a bride.

The party has moved on.

No brides.
No bridesmaids.

No nuns.

They've heard about the size
of your dick, Sherat.

Let's eat.

-Girls!

Give me some more!

Drink it!

Et tu, mon-

Allez!

On your feet!

French dog!

Show some restraint,
gentlemen.

I want these men alive.

With their colours.

They have a tale to tell.

These children
need an orphanage.

They do indeed,

but the nunneries that
used to care for them

are starved of funds.

And the orphanage
on Piazza Navona

is now a cardinal's palace.

Here once stood statue

of the Goddess Sulis Minerva.

And here flowed
crystal spring water

from the Alban Hills...

Statues are easily restored.

Water is not.

So, I would use
my wit-and yours-

to outwit those who
divert funds-and water-

from poorhouses to palaces.

Cardinals-in the curia.

You are far too clever.

It would be fun

to outwit a brace
of cardinals.

More than fun.

It could save lives.

And there is one more brain
I would engage in our cause.

Your mother's.

My mother?
But she-

You must admit,

three minds will
be better than two.

And your mother and I
are far beyond such enmities.

Whose idea was this?

Mine.

And you concurred?

We would use your wit,
Mother.

And your wisdom.

I find myself lacking in both.

We have plans for
the Roman poor.

We've already restored
one bathhouse.

And the Holy Father

has given me full
authority to-

Your lover.

And yours.

Given you full
authority for what?

To comb through the
curatorial accounts.

He knows a lot about
combing through accounts.

And if you would catch
a cardinal or two,

you do well to ask one
who was a courtesan.

However distasteful this may
sound to you, my daughter,

and to you, la bella Farnese,

you will have to
acquaint yourselves

with the brothels of Rome.

You know these colours?

Do you know these colours!

They are the colours
of our regiment.

Good answer.

You know where
this was found?

It was found on the
site of a massacre.

I cannot... speak...
my lord.

And these ears cannot hear.

You collect them as trophies?

A convent would have
provided quite a harvest,

would it not?

St. Cecilia's.

Who was there?

I know not, my lord.

There are many
in our regiment.

If I am to die, my lord,

I would prefer to die quickly.

What?
Who speaks of dying?

My associate is a master!

He can keep you
alive for weeks!

In a universe of pain.

But the truth might
yet set you free.

The convent!
Who was there?

Who partook?

Nothing?

Show us, Micheletto.

Your expertise.

He was there!

You lying bastard,

It was your idea!

He said there was
sport to be had.

In a place that had
your own protection.

What?

And who told him that?

More.

Giovanni!

The Lord Sforza!

So I must punish him then.

My associate may
yet prove merciful.

He treasures information.

Do you not Micheletto?

If it proves true,
Your Eminence, yes.

The truth then-

on troop movements,
booty, cannon-

may yet set you free.

Would you keep
secrets from us?

Why do you ask?

We have heard rumours.

Of skirmishes at night.

Warfare.

I would call it vengeance,
Father.

Not warfare.

You are a cleric,
not a soldier.

Then, yes.

I have a secret.

The whole of Rome
is whispering.

Of our dark son.

So let us instruct you
in the art of vengeance.

Do I need lessons?

Perhaps.

Vengeance should
never be seen as that.

It should always
be unexpected.

And it should
rarely be public.

You learnt this from the Lord?

We know little of war,
but much of vengeance.

And the one salient
point is this:

vengeance is patient.

It can wait a
lifetime if necessary.

Because it never dies.

If you care to
ride north with us,

you may see what we mean.

So who will maintain
the house of God

in our absence?

The vice chancellor,
perhaps?

No, Cardinal Sforza
must ride with us.

You mistrust him
that much?

Our distrust of
the vice chancellor

is bottomless.

As of the entire curia.

Which is why we thought
we would leave them

in the safe hands of
that one blessed person

in whom we can utterly,

utterly place our trust.

Show me your hands, Cesare.

Is it true what I've heard?

That they are
stained with blood?

Must I confess to you?

No.

But we never before had
secrets between us.

Some things are
better left unsaid.

So I must divine then...

the dark cloud on
my brother's soul.

Are you a shepherd
of souls now?

And I see before
me a lost sheep.

Utterly lost, my love.

Then by hook or by crook,

I shall save you.

You may kiss my ring.

You may sit, cardinals.

May I sit too, Sister?

Indeed, Cardinal Borgia.

Forgive our haste,
your Eminences

but our preparations
are endless.

You will have heard;

we have been
called to the north

where the dogs of war
are once again barking.

We must take the
vice chancellor

and Cardinal Borgia with us.

And your prayers
would be welcome.

We have signed a bull,

leaving our dear daughter in,

so to speak, loco parentis.

Are there any questions?

Cardinal Versucci?

Can a woman,
Your Holiness,

occupy the chair
of St. Peter?

Well, plainly, one does.

Pax nobiscum.

Dominus nobiscum.

He is ready to impart
information, Eminence.

Only to you.

Why me?

Because I know what
his pleasures are.

Tell me.

The powder...

for the king's cannon.

Yes.
Tell me.

Travels in the
kitchen wagons

disguised as
barrels of food.

And without that powder,

their cannon are useless.

As am I, Your Eminence.

Release him.

Bless us,
Your Holiness!

Take pity,
Your Holiness!

May God protect you,
Holy Father!

Safe journey!

In nomini Patris, et
Filli et Spiritus Sancti.

Have you heard?

He's left his daughter in
the chair of St. Peter's.

We must travel
to Florence then.

Talk to our brother
Savanarola.

Surely this man cannot
be allowed to live.

Blessings, Your Holiness!

We would give the
consistory a lesson...

...in cookery.

Or is that husbandry?

Baking a cake.

Pour the flour into a sieve.

Shake, gently.

The good flour emerges.

The chaff remains.

Am I correct,
Cardinal Versucci?

I know little of
cookery, my lady.

But you eat cake, surely?

Indeed.

I would hazard that
the entire consistory

has been known at times to
indulge in its sweet tooth.

To eat said cake.

Is there perhaps
a metaphor here?

That the curia,

its various offices,
devoted to public works,

acts like a sieve.

The good flour emerges.

And whats left?

For the poor, the needy?

The chaff.

And what element do we lack
to make this cake?

Ahh!

Water.

Soldiers approaching!

Attention!

Father.

Why have we stopped?

The King of France,
Your Holiness,

has requested an audience.

He awaits your presence-
alone-

in a church nearby.

We are ill,
Your Holiness.

This battle may
well be our last.

Which is why
we have requested

a private audience.

Not for your
confession?

My sins are many,
Your Holiness.

And they are
all bloody ones.

Perhaps even
the Pope of Rome

cannot forgive them.

So why have you requested
our presence here?

To use your diplomatic skills

to spare us this battle.

Well, perhaps if you would

surrender the booty
you have pillaged

to our Holy Mother Church,

we might do something.

With respect, Your Holiness,

you have fooled me once.

For a man of God,

yours was a most
ungodly stratagem.

So, why our presence?

If they are fool enough
to join battle with me,

I will destroy them, utterly.

I will be pitiless.

I know no other way.

My cannon will
annihilate their armies!

The dead will be numberless!

I will drag you in
chains to Avignon

and see you end your
days in ignominy!

All this before I die!

Are you listening,
Holy Father?

We hear you.

We will convey your words
to the league forces.

Ah, listen.

Is that the sound of rain?

Can even the King of France

light his cannon in the rain?

You think we don't know

how to keep powder dry?

Do you think the Lord God
doesn't know how to make rain?

The French have deployed
their cannon here

along this ridge.

We, however,
have the advantage

of this higher ridge here.

From which we shall attack.

All right, man.

Put it with the other -

The rain has stopped.

All off the wagon!

Beg pardon, Your Holiness?

Would not rain
help your cause?

Armies can fight in the rain.

But would it not
hinder their cannon?

Rain is not a
friend to gunpowder.

We do not fear their cannon, Holy Father.
No?

Perhaps you should.

The King of France
requested an audience.

He asks to be let free

to continue his march home.

But if forced to fight,
he promises carnage

the like of which none
of us has yet seen.

We are here to spill blood,
Your Holiness.

Yours?
Or theirs?

I would beg the Holy Father

to give these
troops his blessing

who may well die tomorrow.

And to hear what may well
be my last confession.

And to retire to my castle
before the battle commences,

lest any harm come
to his sacred person.

I have bloodied my hands
in battle.

I have killed;

I have sent countless
men to their doom.

And I pray that God sees
the justice of our cause

and forgives me
for our sins.

The Church acknowledges
some wars are just.

Does your conscience tell you
that this is one such?

It does, Your Holiness.

It will restore the
valour of Italian arms.

The honour of our soldiery.

Honour and valour alone
cannot justify warfare.

But I would plead just cause,
Your Holiness.

The weight of booty
they carry with them

gives ample evidence of
their greed and perfidy.

For this reason alone,
I would seek your blessing.

And your forgiveness.

Do you pledge your arms
to the service of God,

and his vicar on earth?

I do, Your Holiness.

And do you promise
to fight in His name

and His name alone?

I do, Your Holiness.

And do you pledge the spoils
of battle in its entirety

to His Holy Mother Church?

God's blessing
comes with a price.

I-do, Your Holiness.

Then you have our blessing.

Attention!

In nomineatris et
Filli et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

In nomine Patris et
Filli et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

In nomine Patris et
Filli et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

In nomine Patris et
Filli et Spiritus Sancti.

Your Holiness.
Duches.

So, life has treated you well.

When you gave me
your blessing,

I had not yet et my husband.

No.

And now is it we who
are to be blessed

with your hospitality.

So it would seem,
Your Holiness.

I have not yet
forgotten those times.

Some memories endure then?

So it would seem.

We thank God for His
blessings upon this table,

and in this household.

We ask Him

to watch over the Lord
Gonzaga, and his League,

and we pray for the
benediction of rain

upon the field of
battle tomorrow.

Amen.

Is my husband's survival
dependent on rain?

And on valour too.

Your husband, madame,

is a condottieri
of the old school.

He believes warfare
to be an art.

Cannon a vulgarity.

Let us hope it's
not a tragic art.

So we pray then for a downpour

to disarm their cannon.

Micheletto.
Your Eminence.

Condottieri!
Let's ride!

Yah! Yah!

Forgive me, Holy Father.

You are at prayer.

No, you cannot.

I am afraid I must.

But on...
on a night such as this...

I have unfinished business
with the Holy Father.

You now have a husband.

And you have a mistress.

But your husband
fights tomorrow.

No...

So let me pray with you.

For rain.

Ahh!

Ah!

What was that sound?

Thunder.

And after thunder comes...

The deluge.

The deluge...

Listen.

Were your prayers answered?

No, no, no.
Listen.

For what?

There is no sound
of French cannon.

Thank you, God!
Thank you!

Holy Father.
Bless you, my sons.

So many dead!

So much glory.

Right man.

Pull it out.

Ah!
Ooh.

These wounds, Your Holiness,

are proof that
valour lives still.

Ah, indeed.

And honour, no doubt.
It was a battle

from the pages
of Ariosto.

And God answered our prayers
with a voice of thunder.

There were explosions
last night,

Holy Father,
but no thunder.

Well,
I heard thunder,

followed by
torrential rain,

which drowned their cannon.

The French munitions
were destroyed.

But not by thunder.

By some brave Roman souls.

You mean?

I mean...

I am now in the
eternal debt of Rome.

And I pledge all booty
from this field of battle

to our Holy Mother Church.

Your salts of mercury,
Highness?

And the rain?

It has finally stopped,
Highness.

Try to rest.

Have you a potion there

that would give me
eternal rest?

Half of my army is dead

and cries out for
me to join them.

So Your Holiness,

as you wished it
so did it come to pass.

Indeed.
The question is...

how exactly did
it come to pass?

Your meaning,
Holy Father?

Do you have anything to
confess to me Cesare

about this past night?

No, Holy Father.

My night was as satisfactory

as I'm sure was yours.

I slept the sleep of
the good and the just...

...as I hope you did,
Holy Father.

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