1 00:00:01,175 --> 00:00:04,176 abc 2 00:00:12,632 --> 00:00:16,632 abc 3 00:00:16,658 --> 00:00:20,658 abc 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 5 00:02:01,429 --> 00:02:05,799 ...qui te custodiat ab hoste maligno, 6 00:02:05,832 --> 00:02:08,868 et perducat in vitam aeternam. 7 00:02:08,902 --> 00:02:10,537 Amen. 8 00:02:12,539 --> 00:02:18,277 Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor: lavabis me, 9 00:02:18,312 --> 00:02:20,180 et super nivem dealbabor. 10 00:02:20,213 --> 00:02:24,450 You are afraid to enter, but you must. 11 00:02:24,485 --> 00:02:29,188 - ...secundum multitudinem... - I am about to meet my maker. 12 00:02:29,223 --> 00:02:34,593 I have confessed. And I... 13 00:02:34,628 --> 00:02:40,99 confess... I am very afraid. 14 00:02:40,134 --> 00:02:41,835 Colonna. 15 00:02:41,868 --> 00:02:46,105 Sforza. Orsini. 16 00:02:46,139 --> 00:02:48,140 Borgia. 17 00:02:48,175 --> 00:02:51,877 - Your Holiness. - Della Rovere. 18 00:02:51,913 --> 00:02:53,879 -...Gloria Patri... 19 00:02:53,914 --> 00:03:02,722 You will fight like dogs over this corpse I leave 20 00:03:02,757 --> 00:03:06,526 for this throne of St. Peter's. 21 00:03:06,561 --> 00:03:11,664 But it was pure once. 22 00:03:11,699 --> 00:03:19,338 We have all sullied it with our greed 23 00:03:19,372 --> 00:03:22,408 and lechery. 24 00:03:24,978 --> 00:03:30,216 Which of you... will wash it clean? 25 00:03:32,586 --> 00:03:36,55 It shall be cleansed, Your Holiness, 26 00:03:36,90 --> 00:03:39,58 with the tears we shed for you. 27 00:03:39,93 --> 00:03:41,527 I swear before the Living God. 28 00:03:41,562 --> 00:03:45,98 You swear thus? A Spanish murrano? A white moor? 29 00:03:45,132 --> 00:03:47,334 As Vice-Chancellor, 30 00:03:47,367 --> 00:03:52,72 I swear before the Living d. 31 00:03:52,105 --> 00:03:56,508 - And so do I, Your Holiness. - And I, Your Holiness. - And I. 32 00:03:56,544 --> 00:03:58,878 Rest assured, Your Holiness. 33 00:03:58,913 --> 00:04:05,85 The glory of our Holy Mother Church will be restored in my lifetime. 34 00:04:07,989 --> 00:04:11,524 Please... 35 00:04:11,559 --> 00:04:13,293 ...God. 36 00:04:57,737 --> 00:05:01,473 There's a door behind-- leads to the street. 37 00:05:01,509 --> 00:05:03,442 The back passage? 38 00:05:05,446 --> 00:05:08,581 You're a cleric? Didn't you notice? 39 00:05:08,615 --> 00:05:10,582 There was nothing ecclesiastical about you 40 00:05:10,617 --> 00:05:13,319 last night. By night... 41 00:05:13,353 --> 00:05:15,754 By night I am who I want to be. 42 00:05:15,790 --> 00:05:18,425 By day, I am thus. 43 00:05:20,995 --> 00:05:22,829 Lucrezia! 44 00:05:25,66 --> 00:05:29,269 Sister! I spied a lady--another one! 45 00:05:29,302 --> 00:05:31,271 There's a punishment for spying. 46 00:05:31,305 --> 00:05:33,238 - What's that? - Oh, I think you know! 47 00:05:33,274 --> 00:05:35,942 No! 48 00:05:40,648 --> 00:05:44,16 Can I come to your wedding? 49 00:05:44,50 --> 00:05:46,319 I'll never have a wedding, you know that. 50 00:05:46,353 --> 00:05:49,456 No. You are betrothed to God. 51 00:05:51,459 --> 00:05:54,60 Don't you love God, Cesare? 52 00:05:54,95 --> 00:05:57,297 More than I love you? 53 00:05:57,331 --> 00:05:59,98 Don't be sad, brother. 54 00:05:59,132 --> 00:06:02,869 Maybe Papa will become pope, 55 00:06:02,903 --> 00:06:05,204 and you can be who you want to be. 56 00:06:05,238 --> 00:06:08,507 If he does become pope, I'll be what he wants me to be. 57 00:06:08,541 --> 00:06:11,43 Can a pope have children, Cesare? 58 00:06:11,77 --> 00:06:15,382 I've heard it rumoured that Pope Innocent has 12. 59 00:06:15,415 --> 00:06:18,785 But I have also heard it rumoured that he is dying. 60 00:06:18,819 --> 00:06:21,86 No news in that. He's been dying for weeks now. 61 00:06:21,122 --> 00:06:24,290 If he does die, will our father wear his crown? 62 00:06:26,293 --> 00:06:29,728 The new pope will be elected by the College of Cardinals, my love. 63 00:06:29,764 --> 00:06:34,100 And only God can predict the outcome. 64 00:06:34,134 --> 00:06:36,970 Well, since you will have no wedding, 65 00:06:37,4 --> 00:06:39,572 I will pray for God to choose Papa. 66 00:06:39,606 --> 00:06:44,343 I want to wear a beautiful white veil crowned with pearls for his coronation. 67 00:06:44,377 --> 00:06:46,779 God may need some help, then. 68 00:06:51,284 --> 00:06:54,187 - What have they heard? - The pope breathes his last. 69 00:06:54,221 --> 00:06:56,221 God rest his soul... 70 00:07:16,9 --> 00:07:18,978 We must get you out of here before they lock the doors. 71 00:07:19,12 --> 00:07:22,48 - And so it begins. - You know what to do? 72 00:07:22,82 --> 00:07:24,884 - Yes, Father. - Keep our family safe. 73 00:07:24,918 --> 00:07:28,487 Until the new pope is elected, it will be anarchy in Rome-- 74 00:07:28,521 --> 00:07:31,223 every faction fighting for its own candidate. 75 00:07:31,257 --> 00:07:34,226 And if--after the first vote-- if the smoke is black-- 76 00:07:34,261 --> 00:07:38,564 As you said, Father, I know what to do. 77 00:07:42,369 --> 00:07:44,838 I have waited a lifetime for this moment. 78 00:07:44,872 --> 00:07:47,372 We will go over it again. 79 00:07:47,408 --> 00:07:51,577 If we fail at the first vote, I will send word... 80 00:07:51,612 --> 00:07:52,879 On the wings of a dove-- 81 00:07:52,913 --> 00:07:56,516 ...names of those cardinals who need persuading. 82 00:07:56,550 --> 00:07:59,485 With properties, benefices, and, if need be, gold. 83 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:01,721 They call it simony, Father. 84 00:08:01,754 --> 00:08:03,889 God will forgive us, my son. 85 00:08:03,923 --> 00:08:06,725 But I will not forgive failure... 86 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:10,62 ...from you or your brother. 87 00:08:10,96 --> 00:08:11,697 Am I understood? 88 00:08:11,731 --> 00:08:15,802 We will not fail you, Father. 89 00:08:18,538 --> 00:08:20,38 Mm. 90 00:08:23,576 --> 00:08:25,77 Go now. 91 00:08:29,82 --> 00:08:32,418 Back to Spain, Borgia! You've had your day in Rome. 92 00:08:32,452 --> 00:08:35,522 You can't wring any more favours from a dead pope. I was born here, 93 00:08:35,556 --> 00:08:37,524 as far as I'm aware. If a pig is born 94 00:08:37,557 --> 00:08:42,961 in a stable, does that make him a horse? 95 00:08:42,996 --> 00:08:45,197 Tsk, tsk, tsk! 96 00:08:45,231 --> 00:08:47,366 Rome is for Romans now. 97 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,169 The new pope will see to that. 98 00:08:50,203 --> 00:08:52,138 And if the new pope is Spanish? 99 00:08:52,173 --> 00:08:54,506 And if my mother's the Virgin Mary? 100 00:08:54,542 --> 00:08:57,342 Was the Virgin a Roman whore? That's news to me. 101 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,235 Excuse me. 102 00:09:22,269 --> 00:09:25,270 - Ah! - Ah... 103 00:09:25,306 --> 00:09:28,140 My brother speaks before he thinks. 104 00:09:28,174 --> 00:09:31,778 He begs your pardon. 105 00:09:38,152 --> 00:09:41,653 I should have let them do it. Kill me? Your younger brother? 106 00:09:41,688 --> 00:09:44,490 Our father would never have forgiven you. 107 00:09:59,606 --> 00:10:01,73 Have you heard? 108 00:10:01,107 --> 00:10:03,676 Even Gioffre has heard. Have you not? 109 00:10:03,711 --> 00:10:06,546 - The pope has died. - You know what that means? 110 00:10:06,580 --> 00:10:08,615 I know there will be an election. 111 00:10:08,649 --> 00:10:11,216 And the city will be bedlam until it's over. 112 00:10:11,251 --> 00:10:14,52 Do you think our father can win, Juan? 113 00:10:14,87 --> 00:10:16,221 Are we allowed to dream, Mother? 114 00:10:16,256 --> 00:10:20,559 Your father found ways to love and care for us in this house, but I'm not sure 115 00:10:20,594 --> 00:10:23,863 as pope he can do the same. As pope, he can do what he wants. 116 00:10:23,897 --> 00:10:25,365 Are you sure? 117 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:28,100 Kings and popes and emperors belong to their peoples, 118 00:10:28,134 --> 00:10:30,168 not to their families. 119 00:10:30,203 --> 00:10:32,672 So, we allow the election to run its course, 120 00:10:32,706 --> 00:10:35,408 and he won't be pope. What other course is there? 121 00:10:35,442 --> 00:10:38,144 It's in the hands of God. It's in the hands 122 00:10:38,177 --> 00:10:43,15 of the College of Cardinals, Mother. It's not quite the same thing. 123 00:10:43,49 --> 00:10:44,850 This one. 124 00:10:51,125 --> 00:10:54,360 - Cardinal Borgia. - My Lord Cardinal. 125 00:10:54,394 --> 00:10:58,898 - Whoever wins this contest-- - Election. 126 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:03,568 If you were a different man... 127 00:11:03,604 --> 00:11:06,105 ...I might vote for you. 128 00:11:06,139 --> 00:11:10,942 You've performed your duties as Vice-Chancellor admirably. 129 00:11:10,977 --> 00:11:13,679 The Church has need of your... 130 00:11:13,713 --> 00:11:17,884 ...organizational genius. 131 00:11:17,918 --> 00:11:19,851 But... 132 00:11:19,886 --> 00:11:22,322 She has other needs as well. 133 00:11:22,355 --> 00:11:23,990 And they would be? 134 00:11:24,24 --> 00:11:27,92 Honesty. 135 00:11:27,126 --> 00:11:29,394 Probity. 136 00:11:29,429 --> 00:11:31,697 Goodness. 137 00:11:31,731 --> 00:11:34,966 You find me lacking in those qualities? 138 00:11:35,1 --> 00:11:36,936 Yes. 139 00:11:36,970 --> 00:11:39,504 And so I shall fight you. 140 00:11:39,539 --> 00:11:43,942 To the end, and beyond that, if need be, with any means at my disposal. 141 00:11:46,113 --> 00:11:49,48 I do tend to win whatever battles I fight. 142 00:11:51,618 --> 00:11:54,821 But what talk we of fighting? 143 00:11:54,855 --> 00:11:57,190 It is all in God's hands. 144 00:11:59,225 --> 00:12:01,727 Good night, My Lord. 145 00:12:08,501 --> 00:12:11,203 To Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, 146 00:12:11,238 --> 00:12:13,706 four votes. 147 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:16,542 To Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, 148 00:12:16,576 --> 00:12:18,945 six votes. 149 00:12:18,979 --> 00:12:22,215 To Cardinal Guilliano Della Rovere, 150 00:12:22,249 --> 00:12:25,118 seven votes. 151 00:12:25,152 --> 00:12:28,520 To Cardinal Orsino Orsini, 152 00:12:28,554 --> 00:12:30,590 six votes. 153 00:12:30,624 --> 00:12:35,995 None has the require majority... 154 00:12:43,202 --> 00:12:44,803 Dominus Deum... 155 00:12:44,837 --> 00:12:47,807 After the death of Pope Sixtus, 156 00:12:47,841 --> 00:12:52,110 they holed us up here for a month... Appalling. 157 00:12:52,145 --> 00:12:58,150 The company was tolerable, but as for the food... 158 00:12:58,184 --> 00:13:00,419 I had to lead the revolt-- 159 00:13:00,453 --> 00:13:04,490 insist our dishes could be brought in from outside. 160 00:13:04,524 --> 00:13:06,225 How wise. 161 00:13:06,259 --> 00:13:10,62 And now there's crystal in my soup. 162 00:13:10,96 --> 00:13:11,864 Please, 163 00:13:11,899 --> 00:13:14,200 have mine, Your Grace. 164 00:13:14,234 --> 00:13:16,903 Oh. 165 00:13:16,937 --> 00:13:19,538 Don't drink this. It's vinegar; I've tasted it. 166 00:13:23,476 --> 00:13:27,346 From my vineyards in Valencia. 167 00:13:34,421 --> 00:13:35,955 How can I thank you? 168 00:13:35,989 --> 00:13:38,24 Hmm... I wonder... 169 00:13:40,27 --> 00:13:40,993 Mmm! 170 00:13:41,28 --> 00:13:42,894 ...est a me... 171 00:13:42,929 --> 00:13:45,664 The rules are clear. No outside contact is 172 00:13:45,698 --> 00:13:47,667 permitted under any circumstance. 173 00:13:47,701 --> 00:13:51,169 But you must know that Cardinal Versucci's digestion is 174 00:13:51,205 --> 00:13:54,706 very delicate. Which is why he has rabbit baked in milk. 175 00:13:54,740 --> 00:13:57,43 Ah. 176 00:13:57,76 --> 00:13:59,578 Good. And... 177 00:13:59,613 --> 00:14:01,980 Cardinal Piccolomini... 178 00:14:02,14 --> 00:14:04,49 Uh... 179 00:14:04,83 --> 00:14:06,885 Suckling pig with rosemary. 180 00:14:06,919 --> 00:14:10,556 Indeed. The well-being of the curia... 181 00:14:10,591 --> 00:14:13,759 ...is of the greatest importance. As Vice-Chancellor, 182 00:14:13,793 --> 00:14:16,761 their health is my concern. Mens sana in corpore sano. 183 00:14:16,797 --> 00:14:19,698 I think St. Augustine might disagree with you. He extolled 184 00:14:19,732 --> 00:14:23,469 the virtues of fasting. St. Augustine... 185 00:14:23,504 --> 00:14:26,72 ...never had to vote in conclave. 186 00:14:33,80 --> 00:14:34,880 My dear sons, 187 00:14:34,914 --> 00:14:38,417 the Cardinals Versucci, Piccolomini, and Sanso, 188 00:14:38,451 --> 00:14:40,452 grant some titles 189 00:14:40,486 --> 00:14:43,288 and benefices from the Borgia abbeys, 190 00:14:43,322 --> 00:14:45,57 monasteries, and bishoprics. 191 00:14:45,91 --> 00:14:48,94 ...Versucci, Piccolomini, and Sanso, 192 00:14:48,128 --> 00:14:51,864 grant some titles and benefices from the Borgia abbeys, 193 00:14:51,899 --> 00:14:54,232 monasteries, and bishoprics. 194 00:14:54,268 --> 00:14:58,638 Julius... Versucci... 195 00:14:58,672 --> 00:15:02,207 All rights to the Abbey of... 196 00:15:02,241 --> 00:15:04,976 ...St. Catherine of Siena. 197 00:15:05,11 --> 00:15:07,480 Cardinal Allesandro Piccolomini. 198 00:15:07,514 --> 00:15:09,849 Suckling pig 199 00:15:09,883 --> 00:15:11,918 for the cardinal, roasted. 200 00:15:11,951 --> 00:15:14,519 Roasted and... 201 00:15:14,554 --> 00:15:16,355 ...stuffed. 202 00:15:16,389 --> 00:15:19,759 - Cardinal Julius Versucci. - Uh, rabbit. 203 00:15:19,793 --> 00:15:22,193 Rabbit... 204 00:15:22,229 --> 00:15:24,596 ...baked in milk. 205 00:15:58,331 --> 00:15:59,831 Tasty. 206 00:16:01,335 --> 00:16:04,937 Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere... 207 00:16:04,971 --> 00:16:08,6 ...has garnered ten votes. 208 00:16:08,41 --> 00:16:12,144 Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, five. 209 00:16:12,178 --> 00:16:16,749 Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia has garnered eight votes. 210 00:16:16,783 --> 00:16:20,251 But none has the required majority. 211 00:16:24,291 --> 00:16:27,92 My dear son, 212 00:16:27,126 --> 00:16:29,794 we are in sight of our goal, 213 00:16:29,830 --> 00:16:32,498 but now you must redouble our efforts. 214 00:16:32,532 --> 00:16:35,33 Send your brother round the Borgia churches 215 00:16:35,67 --> 00:16:39,171 to empty them of gold, ornamen, and precious stone. 216 00:16:39,206 --> 00:16:41,640 I have emptied the churches of the Romagna. 217 00:16:41,674 --> 00:16:44,143 I have stripped altars bare. 218 00:16:44,177 --> 00:16:46,479 They were rotten with gold ornament. 219 00:16:46,513 --> 00:16:48,447 Yes, you are a true reformer, brother. 220 00:16:48,481 --> 00:16:51,484 These cardinals know no vows of poverty. 221 00:16:55,87 --> 00:16:57,757 Why the dove, Cesare? 222 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:02,394 It has a dual purpose, my love. 223 00:17:02,429 --> 00:17:04,763 Like many things in life, 224 00:17:04,798 --> 00:17:08,299 it serves as both a symbol and a messenger. 225 00:17:08,335 --> 00:17:12,805 - A symbol of what? - Of the uncorrupted soul. 226 00:17:12,838 --> 00:17:15,641 And a messenger of what? 227 00:17:15,675 --> 00:17:17,910 Of corruption. 228 00:17:17,943 --> 00:17:21,780 You mean to say it bears news of how many votes 229 00:17:21,815 --> 00:17:24,717 we must buy in the Papal election. 230 00:17:24,750 --> 00:17:26,786 You are criminally well informed, sis. 231 00:17:26,819 --> 00:17:29,689 But I trust your soul is still of the purest white. 232 00:17:29,722 --> 00:17:32,991 How many votes must we buy him, Cesare? 233 00:17:33,26 --> 00:17:34,993 You know too much already, don't you? 234 00:17:35,28 --> 00:17:38,64 You're wrong. I know too little... 235 00:17:38,97 --> 00:17:41,200 Dear Father, nine mules laden down 236 00:17:41,233 --> 00:17:43,935 with gold and treasure are beig distributed 237 00:17:43,970 --> 00:17:46,204 to the palaces of the following cardinals: 238 00:17:46,239 --> 00:17:49,340 Cardinal Guiliano Della Rovere has garnered... 239 00:17:49,375 --> 00:17:52,111 ...Cardinal Ascana Sforza has garnered four... 240 00:17:52,144 --> 00:17:56,382 ...Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia has garnered ten votes. 241 00:17:56,415 --> 00:17:58,851 None has the required majority. 242 00:18:04,924 --> 00:18:08,728 Of course, Cardinal Sforza, the entire conclave knows 243 00:18:08,761 --> 00:18:11,230 that I cannot be both Vice-Chancellor 244 00:18:11,263 --> 00:18:13,231 and pope of Rome. 245 00:18:13,266 --> 00:18:16,367 Than you can no longer be a Vice-Chancellor. 246 00:18:16,403 --> 00:18:18,304 You mean... 247 00:18:18,337 --> 00:18:21,173 ...I may yet be pope of Rome? 248 00:18:21,208 --> 00:18:25,677 If you can find a suitable Vice-Chancellor. 249 00:18:25,711 --> 00:18:29,749 And how would you describe the qualities necessary 250 00:18:29,782 --> 00:18:33,285 for a suitable Vice-Chancellor, Cardinal Sforza? 251 00:18:35,288 --> 00:18:37,522 - Discretion. - Mm-hmm. 252 00:18:37,557 --> 00:18:39,924 Loyalty. 253 00:18:41,927 --> 00:18:44,430 And a certain kind of wisdom. 254 00:18:46,432 --> 00:18:48,800 Can you be more specific? 255 00:18:50,804 --> 00:18:53,5 I would say the one who would be suitable 256 00:18:53,38 --> 00:18:58,810 as Vice-Chancellor would be wise to support the Vice-Chancellor who would be pope. 257 00:19:00,913 --> 00:19:02,413 Hmm. 258 00:19:05,85 --> 00:19:08,554 And I would say... 259 00:19:08,587 --> 00:19:10,756 ...we have an understanding. 260 00:19:12,959 --> 00:19:17,863 Cardinal Guiliano Della Rovere has garnered seven votes. 261 00:19:17,897 --> 00:19:23,469 Cardinal Alberto Colonna, two. 262 00:19:23,502 --> 00:19:26,739 Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia... 263 00:19:26,772 --> 00:19:29,40 ...fourteen. 264 00:19:29,75 --> 00:19:33,444 Cardinal Borgia has the required majority. 265 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,583 Correction: Cardinal Borgia has bought 266 00:19:37,616 --> 00:19:40,85 the required majority. 267 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,521 What is your implication? 268 00:19:43,557 --> 00:19:46,491 His implication is that the throne of St. Peter's is 269 00:19:46,526 --> 00:19:48,493 for sale. And has been bought 270 00:19:48,528 --> 00:19:51,163 by a Spaniard up to his elbows in simony. 271 00:19:51,198 --> 00:19:53,499 I see. 272 00:19:53,532 --> 00:19:56,0 You would prefer it had been bought by an Italian? 273 00:19:56,36 --> 00:20:00,538 By someone remotely worthy of the papacy at least-- 274 00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:04,309 Then my first act as pope will be to institute 275 00:20:04,344 --> 00:20:06,644 an enquiry into the elective process. 276 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,615 My second, of course... 277 00:20:09,648 --> 00:20:14,86 ...will be to appoint a Vice-Chancellor-- 278 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,356 the greatest office, with the greatest income, 279 00:20:18,391 --> 00:20:20,92 in my gift. 280 00:20:20,125 --> 00:20:23,929 Now, there are two obvious choices: 281 00:20:23,963 --> 00:20:26,565 Cardinals Della Rovere and Orsini. 282 00:20:26,599 --> 00:20:30,336 But the pope could not possibly appoint one 283 00:20:30,369 --> 00:20:33,605 who questioned his right to be pope. 284 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,607 That was not my intention. 285 00:20:35,642 --> 00:20:38,978 Nor was it mine. 286 00:20:39,11 --> 00:20:42,114 I see. 287 00:20:42,147 --> 00:20:46,852 And the Spanish race is closest to your bosom. 288 00:20:53,692 --> 00:20:57,762 Can we proceed, then? To conclude: 289 00:20:57,797 --> 00:21:00,665 Cardinal Borgia has the required majority 290 00:21:00,700 --> 00:21:06,838 An examination, testes et pendentes, is required. 291 00:21:06,873 --> 00:21:11,210 And Cardinal Borgia is happy to comply. 292 00:21:22,821 --> 00:21:26,258 Can there be any doubt that the good cardinal is male? 293 00:21:26,292 --> 00:21:28,259 Not if we count his children. 294 00:21:28,295 --> 00:21:31,262 Let him without children cast the first stone. 295 00:21:31,298 --> 00:21:33,97 I have heard rumours... 296 00:21:33,133 --> 00:21:36,134 ...of a rhinoceros horn. Ooh, that small? 297 00:21:36,169 --> 00:21:38,436 Boasting again? 298 00:22:04,96 --> 00:22:06,932 Oh, go on. The suspense is killing them. 299 00:22:12,972 --> 00:22:15,574 Habet duos testiculos... 300 00:22:15,607 --> 00:22:19,411 ...et bene pendentes. 301 00:22:19,445 --> 00:22:21,913 So, he's got two testicles, well hung. 302 00:22:21,948 --> 00:22:23,848 Deo gracias. 303 00:23:19,105 --> 00:23:23,107 Habemus papam! 304 00:23:41,227 --> 00:23:47,31 Pater, et lius, et Spiritus Sanctus. 305 00:23:47,67 --> 00:23:49,567 Amen. 306 00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:53,771 ...tu es et dominus eternum... 307 00:23:53,807 --> 00:23:58,309 ...et Spiritus Sancti. 308 00:23:58,344 --> 00:24:00,511 Amen. Oh! 309 00:24:03,516 --> 00:24:07,553 Your sins are all forgiven, sisters. 310 00:24:07,586 --> 00:24:10,823 By the pope's bastard? 311 00:24:10,856 --> 00:24:13,925 Son! His favourite son! 312 00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:24,470 I ask to confess to you, Holy Father, 313 00:24:24,503 --> 00:24:28,973 because... I have sinned. 314 00:24:29,8 --> 00:24:31,309 How have you sinned, my son? 315 00:24:31,344 --> 00:24:34,313 I have corrupted my soul. 316 00:24:34,346 --> 00:24:36,781 I have pledged estates, castles, 317 00:24:36,816 --> 00:24:39,151 benefices to your brother cardinals. 318 00:24:39,184 --> 00:24:44,923 I have transferred the documents in the innards of roasted beasts and fowls. 319 00:24:44,958 --> 00:24:47,826 All to secure your election as pope. 320 00:24:47,861 --> 00:24:51,130 And God will repay us tenfold. 321 00:24:53,133 --> 00:24:56,268 But you must set my soul at ease, Father. 322 00:24:56,301 --> 00:25:01,38 Can a family such as ours survive such a prize? 323 00:25:01,74 --> 00:25:04,308 We are Spaniards. They hate us. 324 00:25:04,344 --> 00:25:09,647 The enemies we have at present will be multiplied tenfold. 325 00:25:09,682 --> 00:25:12,451 God will protect his Vicar on Earth, Cesare, 326 00:25:12,484 --> 00:25:17,256 and those dearest to him. And will you inform God as to His duties in this regard? 327 00:25:17,289 --> 00:25:21,125 Why this blasphemous tone, my son? 328 00:25:21,161 --> 00:25:24,529 Because I swear, if God does not protect us, I shall. 329 00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:27,833 You are a bishop, Cesare. You have no need of such temporal thoughts. 330 00:25:27,866 --> 00:25:30,368 You placed this collar round my neck, Father. 331 00:25:30,403 --> 00:25:32,538 You made God my calling. 332 00:25:32,572 --> 00:25:36,807 But the sins I've committed for you must convince you, surely, 333 00:25:36,843 --> 00:25:40,345 that the Church is not my calling. 334 00:25:40,380 --> 00:25:45,884 I beg you now to release me of my vows. Let me live as a layman. 335 00:25:45,919 --> 00:25:48,119 As a soldier. 336 00:25:48,153 --> 00:25:51,656 I can then protect our family from the storm that surely must engulf it. 337 00:25:51,691 --> 00:25:55,760 You are my eldest son, Cesare. You were always destined to be a prince of the Church. 338 00:25:55,795 --> 00:25:59,330 I would be a prince of state, Father, and I think you know that. 339 00:25:59,365 --> 00:26:02,768 The papal army is small, Cesare. 340 00:26:02,801 --> 00:26:06,771 The battles I will fight will be within these sacred walls. 341 00:26:06,806 --> 00:26:10,541 This is where I will need your help. Juan can... 342 00:26:10,576 --> 00:26:14,278 ...bear arms for the Borgia family, and lead whatever army the pope has, 343 00:26:14,314 --> 00:26:16,981 and I will not have my authority questioned further on this. 344 00:26:17,16 --> 00:26:21,819 Ego te absolvo ab omnibus censuris, et peccatis, 345 00:26:21,854 --> 00:26:27,58 in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. 346 00:26:43,643 --> 00:26:45,876 You think it fits me, brother? 347 00:26:45,912 --> 00:26:48,413 You have broad shoulders. 348 00:26:48,448 --> 00:26:50,414 As have you. 349 00:26:50,450 --> 00:26:52,817 Though it lacks an insignia. 350 00:26:52,852 --> 00:26:55,420 I thought a cape to cover the breastplate, 351 00:26:55,454 --> 00:26:57,588 with the Borgia Bull in bright yellow. 352 00:26:57,624 --> 00:27:00,291 I favour black, myself. 353 00:27:00,326 --> 00:27:03,428 Black for the cleric, but for the soldier, 354 00:27:03,462 --> 00:27:05,529 a prancing bull in yellow. 355 00:27:05,565 --> 00:27:08,933 Or red, perhaps? 356 00:27:08,968 --> 00:27:11,303 Black. 357 00:27:11,336 --> 00:27:13,771 It suits you. 358 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,856 - Welcome, Papa. - Oh, I've missed you. 359 00:27:31,891 --> 00:27:34,859 - So, you have won. - Yes, I've won. 360 00:27:34,894 --> 00:27:37,561 You've won what you always wanted. 361 00:27:37,596 --> 00:27:39,597 My congratulations. 362 00:27:41,601 --> 00:27:44,903 And I have... lost. 363 00:27:44,936 --> 00:27:48,73 - But what have you lost, my love? - You. 364 00:27:48,106 --> 00:27:50,541 You'll never lose me. 365 00:27:50,576 --> 00:27:55,480 In spirit, maybe, but... 366 00:27:55,515 --> 00:27:58,349 in the flesh, I may have to. 367 00:27:58,384 --> 00:28:00,484 The pope cannot love? 368 00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:02,721 The pope can love God. 369 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:05,490 But to be seen to love anyone else would be... 370 00:28:05,525 --> 00:28:08,226 ...unthinkable. 371 00:28:08,260 --> 00:28:12,463 So we'll find ways to accommodate our affections. 372 00:28:12,498 --> 00:28:15,666 Something like we've always done. 373 00:28:15,701 --> 00:28:20,905 All of Rome knows you're the mother to my children. 374 00:28:20,940 --> 00:28:25,576 Not only must the pope be chaste; he must be seen to be chaste. 375 00:28:25,611 --> 00:28:28,113 The children. 376 00:28:28,146 --> 00:28:30,848 You can be seen to love them, no? 377 00:28:30,883 --> 00:28:32,616 Of course! 378 00:28:37,323 --> 00:28:41,792 I always knew this day would come. 379 00:28:41,827 --> 00:28:44,296 As long as you are with me in spirit... 380 00:28:44,329 --> 00:28:47,365 - I always will be. - And with no one else. 381 00:28:50,236 --> 00:28:53,904 That is equally impossible, Vannozza. 382 00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:59,44 So we take vows of chastity along with your new status? 383 00:28:59,77 --> 00:29:01,913 Must we take vows of poverty too? 384 00:29:01,948 --> 00:29:04,182 Poverty? 385 00:29:04,217 --> 00:29:07,152 God forbid! 386 00:29:07,185 --> 00:29:09,721 For the ceremonial processio, 387 00:29:09,756 --> 00:29:15,93 horses, arms and livery for 700 priests and 23 cardinas 388 00:29:15,127 --> 00:29:18,462 with their retinues, knights, and grandees. 389 00:29:18,498 --> 00:29:21,266 For Pope Alexander, a ceremonial throne 390 00:29:21,299 --> 00:29:24,403 constructed by Florentine master builders, 391 00:29:24,436 --> 00:29:26,704 gold and silver plated. 392 00:29:26,739 --> 00:29:29,307 For the Borgia family, 393 00:29:29,342 --> 00:29:32,309 a brocaded carriage, gold inlaid, 394 00:29:32,345 --> 00:29:36,748 refurbished in Venice. You look beautiful, Mother. 395 00:29:36,782 --> 00:29:39,417 But you must try to remember you're not in mourning. 396 00:29:39,451 --> 00:29:41,118 But perhaps I am. 397 00:29:43,122 --> 00:29:45,757 Like you are losing your family? 398 00:29:45,791 --> 00:29:47,759 The life we have lived. 399 00:29:47,794 --> 00:29:49,927 What are we gaining? 400 00:29:49,961 --> 00:29:51,930 The future. 401 00:29:57,36 --> 00:30:01,38 ♪ 402 00:30:31,436 --> 00:30:34,405 Step! Step! 403 00:32:35,827 --> 00:32:38,296 Take the tiara... 404 00:32:38,330 --> 00:32:41,932 ...which is ornamented with three crowns... 405 00:32:41,968 --> 00:32:44,1 ...and be aware... 406 00:32:44,36 --> 00:32:47,572 that you are father of kings and monarchs, 407 00:32:47,606 --> 00:32:50,674 lord of the globe, 408 00:32:50,710 --> 00:32:55,814 earthly resident of our Lord Jesus Christ, 409 00:32:55,847 --> 00:32:57,915 our Redeemer, 410 00:32:57,950 --> 00:33:01,118 who shall have the power 411 00:33:01,153 --> 00:33:06,257 and the glory forever and ever. 412 00:33:09,127 --> 00:33:10,628 Amen. 413 00:33:14,133 --> 00:33:15,733 His Holiness, 414 00:33:15,768 --> 00:33:17,769 Pope... 415 00:33:17,803 --> 00:33:20,771 ...Alexander Sixtus. 416 00:33:20,806 --> 00:33:24,776 That is so many titles, Cesare. 417 00:33:24,809 --> 00:33:28,278 What will his family call him now? 418 00:33:28,314 --> 00:33:30,414 Holy Father. 419 00:33:30,449 --> 00:33:33,617 Holy Father. 420 00:33:33,653 --> 00:33:35,452 That's easy. 421 00:33:35,488 --> 00:33:36,954 Even I can remember that. 422 00:33:36,989 --> 00:33:39,990 ...grants to all faithful here present 423 00:33:40,26 --> 00:33:42,93 a plenary indulgence... 424 00:33:42,127 --> 00:33:45,296 - And tell me, dear brother-- - What, sis? 425 00:33:45,330 --> 00:33:48,465 What must I call myself? 426 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:50,0 Holy Daughter? 427 00:33:50,36 --> 00:33:53,137 You are still Lucrezia Borgia, my love. 428 00:33:53,172 --> 00:33:56,173 You will only change your name when you marry. 429 00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:59,678 - And when will I marry? - Never, if I can help it. 430 00:33:59,711 --> 00:34:02,780 But surely it is good to marry, Cesare? 431 00:34:04,784 --> 00:34:06,483 As the pope's daughter, 432 00:34:06,518 --> 00:34:10,21 you will have every prince of Europe vying for your hand. 433 00:34:12,692 --> 00:34:16,260 They may care very little for your heart. 434 00:34:16,295 --> 00:34:19,396 Perhaps I should do as you have done, brother-- 435 00:34:19,431 --> 00:34:22,934 take Holy Orders. Give my heart to God. 436 00:34:22,967 --> 00:34:25,737 That might be the safer option, my love. 437 00:34:25,771 --> 00:34:28,739 Does Papa have so many enemies? 438 00:34:28,773 --> 00:34:31,643 As our father, perhaps not. 439 00:34:31,677 --> 00:34:33,644 But as pope... 440 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,681 I am Rodrigo Borgia no longer. 441 00:34:37,717 --> 00:34:41,152 I am Alexander Sixtus. 442 00:34:41,186 --> 00:34:43,420 But you know who you are. 443 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:46,123 My father, still. 444 00:34:46,157 --> 00:34:50,295 I am no longer "I". I am... "we". 445 00:34:52,331 --> 00:34:57,568 We felt so... alone out there. 446 00:34:57,603 --> 00:35:00,972 When the crown touched our head. 447 00:35:04,909 --> 00:35:06,777 Humbled, even. 448 00:35:08,780 --> 00:35:12,349 Even frightened. You surprise me, Father. 449 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,922 You would surprise yourself if such destiny ever brushed against you. 450 00:35:22,961 --> 00:35:24,963 Quite alone... 451 00:35:28,467 --> 00:35:31,769 ...with just the... 452 00:35:31,804 --> 00:35:34,706 ...silence of God... 453 00:35:34,739 --> 00:35:37,775 ...as your witness. 454 00:35:37,809 --> 00:35:40,778 But He must already be pleased, Holy Father. 455 00:35:40,813 --> 00:35:43,280 Ahhh! 456 00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:46,416 Indeed? 457 00:35:46,452 --> 00:35:48,418 Why? 458 00:35:48,454 --> 00:35:52,157 Because the earth has not yet swallowed us. 459 00:35:57,262 --> 00:35:59,264 Here we are. 460 00:36:02,67 --> 00:36:04,268 You must help me, Cesare. 461 00:36:06,271 --> 00:36:08,639 You must help me interpret... 462 00:36:08,673 --> 00:36:11,141 ...the great silence of God. 463 00:36:13,112 --> 00:36:15,679 Wait! Let me! 464 00:36:19,418 --> 00:36:23,288 Come. Help me... do His will. 465 00:36:25,757 --> 00:36:28,393 We have been entrusted... 466 00:36:28,427 --> 00:36:31,728 ...with the keys to His kingdom. 467 00:36:31,764 --> 00:36:35,65 The King of France must be aware, Ambassador, 468 00:36:35,99 --> 00:36:39,403 that we have placed the papal mitre in the hands of an ape. 469 00:36:39,438 --> 00:36:44,275 He has hopes, Cardinal, that the office brings its own grace with it, 470 00:36:44,309 --> 00:36:47,411 and that the grace of God can transform the worst of men. 471 00:36:47,445 --> 00:36:49,79 And if it doesn't? 472 00:36:49,114 --> 00:36:53,318 We will observe with interest what harm a mitred ape can do. 473 00:36:53,351 --> 00:36:55,452 Hm. 474 00:36:55,487 --> 00:36:58,21 These offices we grant in the full expectation 475 00:36:58,56 --> 00:37:00,858 they will be used wisely for the restoration 476 00:37:00,893 --> 00:37:03,695 of the honour of our Holy Mother Church. 477 00:37:03,728 --> 00:37:05,96 Dominus vobiscum. 478 00:37:05,130 --> 00:37:08,599 - Dominus vobiscum. - And, finally, 479 00:37:08,634 --> 00:37:14,806 the greatest office in our gift, the post of Vice-Chancellor, 480 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,742 the office that stands a reed's width 481 00:37:18,777 --> 00:37:21,144 from our papacy. 482 00:37:21,179 --> 00:37:24,81 We grant... 483 00:37:24,115 --> 00:37:27,184 ...the most august, the most valued colleague, 484 00:37:27,219 --> 00:37:32,724 the brightest hope for the future of the Church, 485 00:37:32,757 --> 00:37:35,92 Cardinal... 486 00:37:35,126 --> 00:37:37,961 ...Ascanio Sforza. 487 00:37:43,369 --> 00:37:45,570 Simony! 488 00:37:45,603 --> 00:37:47,938 I charge you now in public 489 00:37:47,972 --> 00:37:53,478 with trading sacred offices like a market huckster! 490 00:37:53,512 --> 00:37:56,681 May I remind the cardinal he is in consistry. 491 00:37:56,715 --> 00:37:58,882 Perhaps we misheard him. 492 00:37:58,918 --> 00:38:02,52 That office was promised to me. 493 00:38:02,86 --> 00:38:05,222 Ah. Did you pay for it? 494 00:38:05,257 --> 00:38:08,226 With my acceptance of your foul election. 495 00:38:08,260 --> 00:38:12,230 When the pope pledges to banish all suspicion 496 00:38:12,264 --> 00:38:16,233 of simony from the cardinalate, he keeps his word. 497 00:38:16,268 --> 00:38:20,38 God has chosen us as a new broom 498 00:38:20,72 --> 00:38:24,342 to sweep the Vatican clean of corruption, which is 499 00:38:24,376 --> 00:38:28,179 precisely why we choose one who has no expectation 500 00:38:28,213 --> 00:38:33,384 of advancement-- Cardinal Sforza. 501 00:38:40,726 --> 00:38:45,530 And I pray I may prove worthy of the honour. 502 00:38:45,563 --> 00:38:49,500 And I pray so too. 503 00:38:49,534 --> 00:38:51,436 In fact, 504 00:38:51,469 --> 00:38:56,173 I fully approve of his new... broom. 505 00:39:02,213 --> 00:39:04,315 Kiss the ring, you fool. 506 00:39:07,418 --> 00:39:09,987 As do I. 507 00:39:12,157 --> 00:39:18,528 And I deeply regret my recent intemperance. 508 00:39:18,563 --> 00:39:25,702 In honour of his appointment, I invite Cardinal Sforza, 509 00:39:25,737 --> 00:39:28,539 and Your Holiness 510 00:39:28,574 --> 00:39:31,41 and the College of Cardinals 511 00:39:31,76 --> 00:39:33,744 to a banquet at my palace 512 00:39:33,778 --> 00:39:36,646 in two days' time. 513 00:39:54,65 --> 00:39:56,400 Are you going to share it with me? 514 00:39:56,434 --> 00:39:59,771 Share what, Holy Father? 515 00:39:59,804 --> 00:40:03,106 Why you bring a monkey to a banquet? 516 00:40:03,141 --> 00:40:08,746 Oh, I fear the other cardinals might not share your appetite for reformation. 517 00:40:08,780 --> 00:40:10,581 And your monkey does? 518 00:40:10,615 --> 00:40:14,952 Why, yes. He is an excellent judge of appetite. 519 00:40:14,987 --> 00:40:16,454 Huh! 520 00:40:16,487 --> 00:40:20,291 Reform to our Holy Mother Church may happen slowly, but... 521 00:40:20,324 --> 00:40:24,695 God has spoken to me as he spoke to my predecessor, Pope Innocent. 522 00:40:24,730 --> 00:40:26,797 Happen it must. 523 00:40:26,831 --> 00:40:31,702 Shall we dine on gruel tonight, then, Your Holiness? 524 00:40:31,737 --> 00:40:37,375 I could inform my cooks. We are your guests tonight, My Lord Cardinal. We will dine 525 00:40:37,409 --> 00:40:39,43 according to your choosing. 526 00:40:39,77 --> 00:40:42,213 Thank goodness. I can have the wine poured? 527 00:40:42,246 --> 00:40:43,847 Let me taste that. 528 00:40:43,882 --> 00:40:47,717 It is of an excellent vintage, My Lord. 529 00:40:47,753 --> 00:40:50,987 I have no doubt. 530 00:40:51,23 --> 00:40:55,559 Oh! 531 00:40:55,594 --> 00:40:57,829 And how is his palate? 532 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,168 Well, it's superb. 533 00:41:05,204 --> 00:41:08,206 He salutes your good taste. Thank you. 534 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,7 A great wine, like the papacy itself-- 535 00:41:11,43 --> 00:41:13,376 mature, rounded, 536 00:41:13,411 --> 00:41:16,514 its roots in the soil, its bouquet in the heavens, 537 00:41:16,547 --> 00:41:18,715 consumed by a monkey. 538 00:41:18,750 --> 00:41:23,653 I suspect a metaphor is lurking there, My Lord Cardinal? 539 00:41:23,688 --> 00:41:27,157 We are but animals blessed with an eternal soul. 540 00:41:27,192 --> 00:41:30,393 There go we, but for the grace of God. 541 00:41:30,429 --> 00:41:33,530 It seems nature, not metaphor, calls. 542 00:41:33,565 --> 00:41:37,534 He begs Your Lordship's pardon. 543 00:41:37,568 --> 00:41:40,371 Excuse me. 544 00:41:40,405 --> 00:41:42,639 Excuse my monkey. 545 00:41:47,913 --> 00:41:49,914 Why such a hurry? 546 00:42:18,110 --> 00:42:21,811 My God, you're fast. For a cook. 547 00:42:21,847 --> 00:42:23,847 And you for a cleric. 548 00:42:26,451 --> 00:42:29,85 On kitchen duty? 549 00:42:29,121 --> 00:42:32,289 For tonight. 550 00:42:32,324 --> 00:42:36,494 - Who pays you? - Cardinal Orsini. 551 00:42:36,527 --> 00:42:39,829 Whatever you're being paid, I'll double it. 552 00:42:39,864 --> 00:42:42,632 I could use someone that fast. You could? 553 00:42:42,668 --> 00:42:44,668 Oh, yeah. 554 00:42:50,775 --> 00:42:53,643 But not that stupid! 555 00:42:55,981 --> 00:43:00,50 Far from stupidity, sire. 556 00:43:00,85 --> 00:43:04,889 I imagine from your offer that you have need of me, yes? 557 00:43:04,922 --> 00:43:10,327 So to kill the servant you have need of would indeed be stupid. 558 00:43:10,362 --> 00:43:16,99 Call me stupid, then. Tell me, tell me why I shouldn't. Hmm? 559 00:43:16,134 --> 00:43:19,637 Because of the sixth commandment, thou shalt not kill. 560 00:43:19,670 --> 00:43:22,773 I'll be forgiven. The pope is my confessor. 561 00:43:24,775 --> 00:43:29,579 Because you'll never meet another assassin like me. 562 00:43:31,583 --> 00:43:35,885 - Are you sure? - Yes. 563 00:44:00,311 --> 00:44:04,882 But we were talking terms, yes? We were. 564 00:44:06,885 --> 00:44:10,353 I would gladly work for the pope or the pope's son, 565 00:44:10,389 --> 00:44:14,925 for these cardinals can, as you know, prove fickle, 566 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,61 and it seems someone as pitiless as you-- 567 00:44:17,94 --> 00:44:22,400 - Yes? - Needs someone as pitiless as me. 568 00:44:22,434 --> 00:44:24,68 Elaborate. 569 00:44:24,101 --> 00:44:30,173 I have smothered infants in their beds. 570 00:44:30,208 --> 00:44:33,744 But only when their parents paid me. 571 00:44:37,382 --> 00:44:39,349 And in the powder? 572 00:44:39,384 --> 00:44:41,952 Eternal life. 573 00:44:43,954 --> 00:44:47,724 - For whom? - You. Your father. 574 00:44:50,228 --> 00:44:51,695 It's not very subtle. 575 00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:54,798 No subtlety needed tonight. 576 00:44:54,833 --> 00:44:56,967 They all want you dead. 577 00:45:14,418 --> 00:45:16,219 Serve this... 578 00:45:16,253 --> 00:45:18,255 ...to Orsini. 579 00:45:58,896 --> 00:46:01,431 Your Grace. 580 00:46:01,465 --> 00:46:03,701 You are bleeding. 581 00:46:05,704 --> 00:46:08,5 Damned monkey bit me. 582 00:46:08,39 --> 00:46:12,510 Animals will do that. They lack soul. 583 00:46:12,543 --> 00:46:15,913 I propose a toast. 584 00:46:15,947 --> 00:46:17,514 To harmony, 585 00:46:17,548 --> 00:46:19,650 amongst us, 586 00:46:19,684 --> 00:46:22,119 servants of God. 587 00:46:22,153 --> 00:46:28,25 - Harmony. - To the communion of saints and the forgiveness of sins. 588 00:46:28,59 --> 00:46:29,527 Amen. 589 00:46:29,561 --> 00:46:30,760 Amen. 590 00:46:39,103 --> 00:46:43,306 I'd like to propose a second toast. To metaphor. 591 00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:46,543 - Why metaphor? - Because she's so 592 00:46:46,577 --> 00:46:51,414 infinitely pliable. A prince one minute, a monkey the next. 593 00:46:51,449 --> 00:46:57,621 And what her hidden meaning is only God in His infinite wisdom knows. 594 00:47:01,893 --> 00:47:05,61 I propose another toast. 595 00:47:05,96 --> 00:47:08,498 To monkeys. Monkeys? 596 00:47:08,532 --> 00:47:11,68 They lick your hand one minute, 597 00:47:11,101 --> 00:47:17,407 bite your neck the next. And everyone knows what you do with the monkey that bites you. 598 00:47:17,442 --> 00:47:20,244 And what do you do with the monkey that bites you? 599 00:47:20,277 --> 00:47:22,512 Your Eminence, you're ill. 600 00:47:22,547 --> 00:47:24,148 You wring its neck. 601 00:47:28,753 --> 00:47:32,755 - Poison. - Poison! 602 00:47:32,791 --> 00:47:34,791 I accuse! 603 00:47:34,826 --> 00:47:37,327 The cooks? Come, Father. 604 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,568 Send for help! 605 00:47:50,74 --> 00:47:52,376 - The poison was meant for us. - That's not possible. 606 00:47:52,409 --> 00:47:54,311 We were saved by a monkey, Father. 607 00:47:54,346 --> 00:47:55,813 You don't poison the pope! 608 00:47:55,847 --> 00:47:57,815 Are you aware what the gossips call you? 609 00:47:57,849 --> 00:48:00,885 The mitred ape. Half of Rome was waiting to celebrate this outcome-- 610 00:48:00,918 --> 00:48:03,686 You poison a rat, you poison a rabid dog! 611 00:48:03,722 --> 00:48:06,789 Not the Vicar of Rome, not the heir to St. Peter! 612 00:48:06,824 --> 00:48:08,925 - Bring my carriage! - The idea offends you? 613 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,829 It offends me, it offends nature, it offends God Himself! 614 00:48:11,862 --> 00:48:17,768 - So, God will take His revenge, then. - Yes, He will. With our help. 615 00:48:17,802 --> 00:48:19,936 - Go! - Yah! 616 00:48:27,545 --> 00:48:29,12 Excellent service. 617 00:48:29,47 --> 00:48:32,516 - I fear it is not over yet. - What do you mean? 618 00:48:32,550 --> 00:48:35,985 Well, there's more to your Borgia family than father and son. 619 00:48:36,21 --> 00:48:40,157 - What do you mean? - I mean we must hurry, My Lord. 620 00:48:40,190 --> 00:48:42,559 Your whole family's in danger. 621 00:48:54,972 --> 00:48:56,940 - Micheletto! - Am I too late? 622 00:48:56,974 --> 00:48:59,577 - We were waiting for you. - Then you're too late! 623 00:48:59,610 --> 00:49:02,913 What are you doing?! 624 00:49:02,947 --> 00:49:04,581 Ah! 625 00:49:10,956 --> 00:49:12,456 Allow me, Uy Lord. 626 00:49:22,467 --> 00:49:25,603 Guards! 627 00:49:25,637 --> 00:49:28,672 - General! - With me, quickly! 628 00:49:28,706 --> 00:49:31,141 Come on! 629 00:49:31,175 --> 00:49:34,311 Get out of my way! 630 00:49:39,851 --> 00:49:42,385 Pray somewhere else, Cardinals. 631 00:49:45,190 --> 00:49:47,190 Arrest this household. 632 00:49:49,661 --> 00:49:52,663 You planned this massacre thoroughly. 633 00:49:52,697 --> 00:49:54,331 If I had planned it, My Lord, 634 00:49:54,365 --> 00:49:57,568 believe me, we would not be having this conversation. 635 00:49:57,601 --> 00:50:00,603 You're that meticulous? 636 00:50:00,639 --> 00:50:03,507 Always. 637 00:50:03,541 --> 00:50:05,842 And o planned it? 638 00:50:09,114 --> 00:50:12,650 Cardinal Orsini. 639 00:50:12,684 --> 00:50:14,184 And Della Rovere? 640 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,257 I know nothing of him. 641 00:50:20,291 --> 00:50:21,759 In this affair, 642 00:50:24,362 --> 00:50:27,164 I had but one master. 643 00:50:27,197 --> 00:50:30,300 And now? 644 00:50:30,335 --> 00:50:35,338 And now I am like a stray dog, 645 00:50:35,373 --> 00:50:37,206 masterless. 646 00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:43,12 Unless your kind offer still stands. 647 00:50:43,47 --> 00:50:47,50 You could have... let things take their course... 648 00:50:47,85 --> 00:50:49,353 Betrayed me. 649 00:50:49,387 --> 00:50:53,23 Most of your kind do. My kind? 650 00:50:53,57 --> 00:50:56,960 I do not have a kind. 651 00:51:00,664 --> 00:51:03,634 And I suspect neither do you. 652 00:51:07,38 --> 00:51:10,306 Your name, sweet assassin. 653 00:51:18,148 --> 00:51:20,83 Micheletto. 654 00:51:20,117 --> 00:51:23,86 You must prove yourself worthy of my trust, th. 655 00:51:23,121 --> 00:51:27,925 - This is not proof enough? - Perhaps. Perhaps not. 656 00:51:27,958 --> 00:51:32,295 Can you dispose of these corpses? You would keep them secret? 657 00:51:32,329 --> 00:51:34,565 More than that. I would keep you secret. 658 00:51:37,402 --> 00:51:41,538 Dump them in the Tiber. Meet me by the Vatican gates 659 00:51:41,572 --> 00:51:45,442 in two hours' time. We shall discuss your future service. 660 00:51:51,983 --> 00:51:54,885 Mother. 661 00:51:54,918 --> 00:51:58,856 Are you trying to frighten me? 662 00:51:58,889 --> 00:52:00,891 I'm sorry, Mother. 663 00:52:03,61 --> 00:52:06,329 Why are you here, Cesare? 664 00:52:06,364 --> 00:52:08,798 I imagine things-- 665 00:52:08,833 --> 00:52:10,867 murders, 666 00:52:10,902 --> 00:52:13,469 blood-spattered throats, 667 00:52:13,505 --> 00:52:16,206 poisoned chalices. 668 00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:20,244 Perhaps you're not wrong. We have many enemies now. 669 00:52:22,914 --> 00:52:24,380 And Lucrezia? 670 00:52:24,414 --> 00:52:28,885 She's sleeping. You miss her that much? 671 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,54 Always. 672 00:52:31,88 --> 00:52:34,557 If anything happened to her, I'd... 673 00:52:34,592 --> 00:52:36,626 ...I'd die. 674 00:52:36,661 --> 00:52:39,730 What could possibly happen? 675 00:52:39,764 --> 00:52:42,733 I'm putting a guard on the house. 676 00:52:42,766 --> 00:52:45,235 Is it so dangerous outside? 677 00:52:45,269 --> 00:52:47,237 We are in a different city now. 678 00:52:47,271 --> 00:52:50,7 Is it still called Rome? 679 00:52:50,41 --> 00:52:52,543 I'm not sure it has a name. 680 00:52:54,711 --> 00:52:57,681 Father. 681 00:52:57,715 --> 00:53:00,349 Father! 682 00:53:00,385 --> 00:53:02,351 Father, I've had to place a guard on the-- 683 00:53:02,387 --> 00:53:06,824 The good cardinal, my son, has been expressing his shock 684 00:53:06,858 --> 00:53:10,193 and dismay at this evening's outcome. 685 00:53:10,228 --> 00:53:12,362 Poison, it seems, was the cause 686 00:53:12,396 --> 00:53:14,831 of Cardinal Orsini's demise. 687 00:53:14,865 --> 00:53:16,867 One shudders at the thought. 688 00:53:16,900 --> 00:53:18,434 As to who poisoned him, 689 00:53:18,469 --> 00:53:21,538 I have no idea. Perhaps we should 690 00:53:21,572 --> 00:53:25,7 ask ourselves, who benefits most from his death? 691 00:53:25,43 --> 00:53:27,77 And what are you implying, Your Eminence? 692 00:53:27,110 --> 00:53:29,746 I am implying nothing. 693 00:53:29,780 --> 00:53:32,615 I am merely offering His Holiness any help I can 694 00:53:32,650 --> 00:53:35,52 in unmasking the culprit. 695 00:53:35,85 --> 00:53:39,322 Our Holy Mother Church can afford no such scandals. 696 00:53:43,927 --> 00:53:48,565 We have Orsini's household staff in irons, Your Holiness. 697 00:53:48,599 --> 00:53:52,68 Cardinal. The good cardinal, my brother, 698 00:53:52,103 --> 00:53:56,639 has offered to help us unmask the culprit behind this plot. 699 00:53:56,673 --> 00:54:00,110 We apprehended this wretch skulking outside by the gate. 700 00:54:00,143 --> 00:54:02,913 A plot, by definition, needs more than one participant, 701 00:54:02,947 --> 00:54:06,449 does it not? Do you recognize him? 702 00:54:13,791 --> 00:54:16,793 Didn't he pour the wine? 703 00:54:16,827 --> 00:54:19,929 Do you know this man, Cardinal Della Rovere? 704 00:54:19,963 --> 00:54:22,199 I know he attended at the cardinal's table, 705 00:54:22,233 --> 00:54:23,666 but there were many of those. 706 00:54:23,701 --> 00:54:28,838 Beyond that, nothing. 707 00:54:28,873 --> 00:54:31,875 If this creature is indeed the poisoner, 708 00:54:31,909 --> 00:54:36,79 some hours on the strappado should loosen his tongue. 709 00:54:36,114 --> 00:54:37,614 See if he talks. 710 00:54:44,688 --> 00:54:46,856 I have a dilemma: 711 00:54:49,159 --> 00:54:51,661 whether to flay you at night... 712 00:54:53,731 --> 00:54:55,632 ...or at dawn. 713 00:55:00,38 --> 00:55:03,39 - I pity you your dilemma, My Lord. - Pity yourself. 714 00:55:03,74 --> 00:55:06,643 Brother. You have already exhausted yourself 715 00:55:06,677 --> 00:55:08,144 in our father's defence. 716 00:55:08,179 --> 00:55:10,681 Now I could spend a good hour questioning this man. 717 00:55:10,715 --> 00:55:12,715 Is that really a task for a cleric? 718 00:55:23,327 --> 00:55:26,295 Lock the door and go. 719 00:55:26,331 --> 00:55:28,898 Up. 720 00:55:28,932 --> 00:55:30,434 Up! 721 00:55:35,5 --> 00:55:37,474 Would you have talked? 722 00:55:37,507 --> 00:55:40,344 Only to sing your praises, My Lord. 723 00:55:44,181 --> 00:55:46,849 Still want to earn my trust? 724 00:55:48,853 --> 00:55:51,655 Eternally, My Lord. 725 00:55:51,688 --> 00:55:54,358 Lie low for a day, then. 726 00:55:54,391 --> 00:55:58,61 I can have word sent out that you couldn't be broken. 727 00:56:00,297 --> 00:56:02,431 And then? 728 00:56:02,467 --> 00:56:04,333 Then... 729 00:56:04,369 --> 00:56:08,605 ...get close to Cardinal Della Rovere. 730 00:56:08,639 --> 00:56:12,309 Tell me what he thinks. What he plans. 731 00:56:16,981 --> 00:56:19,483 Then you must hurt me, My Lord. 732 00:56:21,485 --> 00:56:24,286 Haven't I hurt you enough already? 733 00:56:24,322 --> 00:56:28,492 To convince this cardinal, my back must tell its own story. 734 00:56:31,161 --> 00:56:33,463 And I have heard that he has an interest 735 00:56:33,498 --> 00:56:36,32 in the male torso. 736 00:56:39,3 --> 00:56:44,7 And even I cannot convincingly whip myself. 737 00:56:48,12 --> 00:56:50,12 So whip me, My Lord. 738 00:57:01,391 --> 00:57:03,260 Harder. 739 00:57:07,565 --> 00:57:09,132 Harder, My Lord. 740 00:57:12,804 --> 00:57:14,336 And... 741 00:57:14,371 --> 00:57:18,141 ...if you betray me... 742 00:57:20,177 --> 00:57:22,612 ...you will end your days on that rack. 743 00:57:22,646 --> 00:57:25,782 Then it would not be in my interest to betray you, 744 00:57:25,817 --> 00:57:28,784 My Lord. Good. 745 00:57:30,588 --> 00:57:32,588 Again! 746 00:57:36,661 --> 00:57:38,228 Again. 747 00:57:48,806 --> 00:57:52,608 Do you have something to tell me? 748 00:57:52,643 --> 00:57:54,911 About the night's events? 749 00:57:57,748 --> 00:57:59,748 Only that... 750 00:58:01,751 --> 00:58:03,753 ...I will protect you. 751 00:58:03,788 --> 00:58:06,789 Protect our family. 752 00:58:06,824 --> 00:58:09,659 With my life if needs be. 753 00:58:14,764 --> 00:58:19,68 Well, all of the others bought and sold. 754 00:58:19,103 --> 00:58:22,706 We merely proved ourselves better at the game. 755 00:58:22,739 --> 00:58:25,876 But we draw the line 756 00:58:25,909 --> 00:58:29,746 at murder, do we not? 757 00:58:33,918 --> 00:58:37,954 Orsini drew no such line. 758 00:58:45,929 --> 00:58:47,931 I see. 759 00:58:51,936 --> 00:58:54,36 So, 760 00:58:54,70 --> 00:58:57,373 we are one less cardinal this morning. 761 00:59:03,547 --> 00:59:07,16 I was your age when I became a cardinal. 762 00:59:07,50 --> 00:59:08,885 Seems like yesterday. 763 00:59:10,887 --> 00:59:12,422 This red... 764 00:59:12,456 --> 00:59:16,626 ...signifies that you are ready to spill your blood in defence 765 00:59:16,661 --> 00:59:19,862 of the Christian faith. 766 00:59:19,896 --> 00:59:23,400 - No, Father. - Are you, my son, ready 767 00:59:23,434 --> 00:59:26,702 to spill your blood in defence of the Christian faith? 768 00:59:26,737 --> 00:59:28,405 I think you are! 769 00:59:28,438 --> 00:59:30,407 For the defence of my family, perhaps. 770 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,641 - That too. - Give me control 771 00:59:32,677 --> 00:59:35,911 of the papal armies and I will protect us all. We will have one son 772 00:59:35,947 --> 00:59:38,648 in the cloth and one in armour. 773 00:59:38,682 --> 00:59:41,617 You know our wishes. But a cardinal's red? 774 00:59:41,652 --> 00:59:43,786 And Lucrezia must marry. 775 00:59:43,820 --> 00:59:45,554 So soon? 776 00:59:45,590 --> 00:59:48,958 - She is 14 years old. - She is just a child. 777 00:59:48,992 --> 00:59:52,561 We must bind our enemies to us. Make friends of them. 778 00:59:52,597 --> 00:59:55,197 And what better way is there than marriage 779 00:59:55,233 --> 00:59:59,635 You can perform the rite-- as cardinal. 780 00:59:59,670 --> 01:00:03,572 Am I a cardinal already? 781 01:00:12,583 --> 01:00:14,751 And they tortured you for... 782 01:00:14,784 --> 01:00:17,721 ...how long? 783 01:00:17,755 --> 01:00:21,291 A day and a night, Your Eminence. 784 01:00:25,730 --> 01:00:27,230 And you revealed? 785 01:00:29,233 --> 01:00:32,235 There was nothing to reveal, Your Eminence. 786 01:00:40,443 --> 01:00:42,445 Ecce homo. 787 01:00:44,949 --> 01:00:48,184 "Behold the man." 788 01:00:48,219 --> 01:00:50,753 They scourged our saviour thus. 789 01:00:54,557 --> 01:00:58,661 Is it true, what's being rumoured? 790 01:00:58,695 --> 01:01:03,32 That the good cardinal inadvertently poisoned himself? 791 01:01:03,67 --> 01:01:05,702 Who would have profited from his death? 792 01:01:05,735 --> 01:01:08,204 Certainly not Cardinal Orsini. 793 01:01:08,239 --> 01:01:12,141 - Who takes possession of his properties? - Borgia. 794 01:01:12,175 --> 01:01:13,677 Well, then. 795 01:01:16,79 --> 01:01:18,547 These methods are not mine. 796 01:01:18,581 --> 01:01:22,52 You think they are mine, Your Eminence? 797 01:01:22,85 --> 01:01:24,721 What are your methods? 798 01:01:24,755 --> 01:01:26,889 Discretion. 799 01:01:26,923 --> 01:01:28,324 Silence. 800 01:01:28,358 --> 01:01:30,360 And you have suffered for your silence. 801 01:01:32,362 --> 01:01:35,898 Why? 802 01:01:35,932 --> 01:01:38,168 Like you, 803 01:01:38,202 --> 01:01:41,70 I hate this Borgia. 804 01:01:43,106 --> 01:01:45,909 And if I can be of any use... 805 01:01:45,943 --> 01:01:50,246 I need someone I can trust. 806 01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,382 You can trust my hatred of this Borgia pope. 807 01:02:01,425 --> 01:02:05,561 I can trust these wounds of yours. 808 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,536 They will last for a lifetime, 809 01:02:14,572 --> 01:02:17,639 Your Eminence. Indeed. 810 01:02:19,643 --> 01:02:22,612 I need to assemble a gathering of every cardinal 811 01:02:22,646 --> 01:02:26,48 who shares your feelings. 812 01:02:26,83 --> 01:02:29,452 In absolute secrecy. 813 01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:01,550 May I thank you, Holy Father, for bequeathing to me your precious time. 814 01:03:03,554 --> 01:03:06,856 Go on, my child. 815 01:03:06,891 --> 01:03:08,590 I have sinned mightily, 816 01:03:08,626 --> 01:03:10,927 Your Holiness, 817 01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:14,963 and know there are some sins that only the pope can forgive. 818 01:03:14,998 --> 01:03:16,800 They are few, 819 01:03:16,833 --> 01:03:19,869 but the most grave. 820 01:03:21,871 --> 01:03:23,405 Tell me. 821 01:03:25,409 --> 01:03:28,710 My husband, Your Holiness, 822 01:03:28,746 --> 01:03:31,213 has long been... 823 01:03:31,248 --> 01:03:33,750 ...distasteful to me. 824 01:03:33,784 --> 01:03:35,952 I fear... 825 01:03:35,985 --> 01:03:39,355 ...you are not the first woman to share that fate. 826 01:03:39,389 --> 01:03:43,460 His person I find repellent. 827 01:03:43,494 --> 01:03:46,295 His advances sicken me. 828 01:03:46,329 --> 01:03:50,333 His hand upon my body makes me retch with disgust. 829 01:03:50,367 --> 01:03:55,304 Have you denied him... 830 01:03:55,338 --> 01:03:57,706 ...your duties as a wife? 831 01:04:00,10 --> 01:04:02,478 No, Your Holiness. 832 01:04:02,512 --> 01:04:06,583 I performed them as the Church says I must. 833 01:04:06,617 --> 01:04:08,83 So I... 834 01:04:08,117 --> 01:04:10,820 ...fail to discern the sin. 835 01:04:15,326 --> 01:04:18,795 I found myself with child. 836 01:04:18,829 --> 01:04:21,130 The thought of this body of mine, 837 01:04:21,164 --> 01:04:24,0 marred by the presence of his offspring-- 838 01:04:26,3 --> 01:04:28,304 inside-- 839 01:04:28,338 --> 01:04:31,340 drove me to an act of transgression that... 840 01:04:35,346 --> 01:04:37,679 Go on, my daughter. 841 01:04:40,184 --> 01:04:43,853 I put an end to my pregnancy. 842 01:04:46,23 --> 01:04:48,858 That is indeed most grave. 843 01:04:50,860 --> 01:04:52,829 A sin... 844 01:04:52,862 --> 01:04:55,264 ...that only the pope... 845 01:04:55,298 --> 01:04:58,635 ...can forgive. Only God may forgive. 846 01:05:00,637 --> 01:05:03,773 But we may intercede... 847 01:05:03,806 --> 01:05:07,10 ...on your behalf. 848 01:05:10,914 --> 01:05:13,983 Then, please, Your Holiness, 849 01:05:14,18 --> 01:05:18,121 ...beg for me His mercy. 850 01:05:18,155 --> 01:05:20,456 And... 851 01:05:20,490 --> 01:05:24,460 ...your husband? He knows of this? 852 01:05:24,494 --> 01:05:26,461 He knows nothing. 853 01:05:26,496 --> 01:05:30,699 He has retired to his castle in Bassano. 854 01:05:30,733 --> 01:05:33,969 He satisfies his lust on me no longer. 855 01:05:34,3 --> 01:05:35,905 And you are... 856 01:05:35,940 --> 01:05:40,208 now... chaste? 857 01:05:43,646 --> 01:05:46,114 I have no one, Your Holiness. 858 01:05:46,150 --> 01:05:49,619 Then perhaps that is to be your penitence-- 859 01:05:49,652 --> 01:05:54,791 to follow your husband to Bassano, as is your duty. 860 01:05:54,824 --> 01:05:57,793 I would prefer a life of destitution, Your Holiness. 861 01:05:57,827 --> 01:05:59,795 Then love God. 862 01:05:59,829 --> 01:06:03,599 And find peace within the walls of a nunnery. 863 01:06:03,634 --> 01:06:06,702 Can one find peace in such a love, Your Holiness? 864 01:06:06,737 --> 01:06:10,239 It is what we must do, 865 01:06:10,273 --> 01:06:13,509 Giulia Farnese. 866 01:06:18,748 --> 01:06:21,717 I fear I may lack Your Holiness's will. 867 01:06:21,751 --> 01:06:26,322 I am still young, Your Holiness, 868 01:06:26,356 --> 01:06:28,824 and my body, I am sure, 869 01:06:28,858 --> 01:06:31,494 could find, and give, much happiness 870 01:06:31,527 --> 01:06:34,130 if my soul could find peace. 871 01:06:38,534 --> 01:06:40,637 Do you beg forgiveness from God 872 01:06:40,670 --> 01:06:42,639 for the enormity of your crime? 873 01:06:42,672 --> 01:06:45,7 I do so daily. 874 01:06:45,41 --> 01:06:47,844 Your Holiness, my soul yearns for its punishment. 875 01:06:47,878 --> 01:06:50,813 Then you must fast. 876 01:06:50,847 --> 01:06:54,916 From matins till evensong. 877 01:06:54,952 --> 01:06:58,253 And flagellate your naked body twice nightly. 878 01:06:58,288 --> 01:07:00,56 With knotted cord, 879 01:07:00,90 --> 01:07:04,126 Your Holiness? Cord of silk will suffice. 880 01:07:04,161 --> 01:07:07,797 To destroy the beauty the Lord has granted you 881 01:07:07,831 --> 01:07:11,800 would be to compound your sin. 882 01:07:11,835 --> 01:07:14,3 E go te absolve... 883 01:07:14,38 --> 01:07:16,938 ...ab omnibus censuris, et peccatis, 884 01:07:16,974 --> 01:07:19,108 in nomine Patris, 885 01:07:19,143 --> 01:07:21,344 et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. 886 01:07:21,378 --> 01:07:23,880 - Amen. - Amen. 887 01:07:33,724 --> 01:07:35,724 Giulia Farnese. 888 01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:39,528 Your Holiness? 889 01:07:41,532 --> 01:07:44,0 One of your lineage... 890 01:07:44,34 --> 01:07:47,469 ...to be destitute-- we cannot allow it. 891 01:07:47,503 --> 01:07:52,175 We must find you... some... 892 01:07:52,208 --> 01:07:55,143 ...temporary and... 893 01:07:55,179 --> 01:07:57,179 ...temporal refuge. 894 01:08:05,655 --> 01:08:09,24 Keep the fire away from the straw! 895 01:08:09,59 --> 01:08:11,226 - It is! - Good! 896 01:08:16,899 --> 01:08:20,636 - Boy, keep the banners and colours all together. - Right, sir! 897 01:08:20,671 --> 01:08:25,373 Some of you voted for him, 898 01:08:25,408 --> 01:08:31,213 for which unfortunate choice you are now forgiven. 899 01:08:31,247 --> 01:08:33,882 But most of you voted against. 900 01:08:33,917 --> 01:08:36,219 We have assembled the barest of majorities. 901 01:08:36,252 --> 01:08:38,720 But then, this Borgia pope was elected 902 01:08:38,756 --> 01:08:41,390 with just such a majority. 903 01:08:44,761 --> 01:08:48,898 The cardinal's demise was... sudden. 904 01:08:48,931 --> 01:08:51,367 So it seems. 905 01:08:53,537 --> 01:08:57,806 But his palace is ideal as a... 906 01:08:57,841 --> 01:09:01,810 ...place of penitence... 907 01:09:01,845 --> 01:09:03,845 ...and... 908 01:09:03,881 --> 01:09:05,881 ...self-reflection. 909 01:09:19,229 --> 01:09:23,298 If it can be proven, what many of us suspect-- 910 01:09:23,332 --> 01:09:26,234 corruption, simony, 911 01:09:26,270 --> 01:09:29,805 the blatant sale of the sacred offices, 912 01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:34,342 and worse, the utter degradation of the office of the papacy 913 01:09:34,377 --> 01:09:36,378 in the eyes of the Christian world... 914 01:09:42,19 --> 01:09:44,554 You must think of your sojourn here 915 01:09:44,587 --> 01:09:47,722 as a retreat. 916 01:09:47,757 --> 01:09:49,257 A retreat? 917 01:09:52,762 --> 01:09:55,931 The cardinal had this tunnel built. 918 01:09:55,966 --> 01:09:59,935 It leads inside the Vatican walls. 919 01:10:04,608 --> 01:10:08,543 If you ever find yourself in need of... 920 01:10:08,578 --> 01:10:12,47 ...spiritual comfort.. 921 01:10:12,82 --> 01:10:15,585 ...in your loneliness... Your Holiness. 922 01:10:15,618 --> 01:10:20,21 You must not be afraid to avail of it. 923 01:10:20,56 --> 01:10:22,257 Day or night. 924 01:10:27,396 --> 01:10:29,398 We shall leave you now. 925 01:10:31,734 --> 01:10:35,136 This passage goes both ways. 926 01:10:35,171 --> 01:10:38,875 Your Holiness must feel free to visit... 927 01:10:38,908 --> 01:10:43,880 ...if God's love were ever to leave him wanting. 928 01:10:47,951 --> 01:10:53,55 The cardinal summons me in the dead of night. Is there a reason? 929 01:10:53,90 --> 01:10:56,559 These are turbulent times, Father. 930 01:11:03,567 --> 01:11:05,568 Dottore... 931 01:11:08,805 --> 01:11:11,140 You can leave us now. 932 01:11:14,610 --> 01:11:19,614 I need advice, dottore, on a delicate matter. 933 01:11:19,649 --> 01:11:22,417 The deposition of a pope. 934 01:11:24,421 --> 01:11:27,55 Delicate indeed. 935 01:11:27,90 --> 01:11:30,493 And, if I may say so, dangerous. 936 01:13:12,229 --> 01:13:14,764 Stop that. 937 01:13:16,766 --> 01:13:19,268 You have done penance enough. 938 01:13:24,908 --> 01:13:28,43 Who then will forgive us, Your Holiness? 939 01:13:28,78 --> 01:13:30,78 God will. 940 01:14:15,492 --> 01:14:18,627 Huggucio of Pisa states: 941 01:14:18,662 --> 01:14:23,565 "Ecce publico fornicator, publico habet concubinem..." 942 01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,136 The pope who publicly fornicates, publicly keeps a concubine-- 943 01:14:27,170 --> 01:14:30,171 Can indeed be deposed, 944 01:14:30,207 --> 01:14:36,244 because to scandalize the Church is in itself heresy. 945 01:14:36,279 --> 01:14:40,682 But one would need firm evidence 946 01:14:40,716 --> 01:14:43,719 of notorious and public lechery. 947 01:14:46,789 --> 01:14:50,59 Whose bed is this? 948 01:14:50,92 --> 01:14:52,427 Yours, of course. 949 01:14:54,864 --> 01:14:56,865 Whose bed was this? 950 01:15:00,604 --> 01:15:03,706 It belonged to a cardinal and a fool. 951 01:15:05,708 --> 01:15:07,877 What kind of fool? 952 01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,948 The kind of fool who doesn't understand that 953 01:15:12,983 --> 01:15:15,783 God's work can be done 954 01:15:15,819 --> 01:15:18,186 even by the most unlikely of his servants. 955 01:15:18,220 --> 01:15:21,724 And that Rome needs now is-- You. 956 01:15:24,226 --> 01:15:25,728 Power. 957 01:15:31,167 --> 01:15:35,404 You're so beautiful, Giulia Farnese. 958 01:15:37,407 --> 01:15:40,408 I would have you painted. 959 01:16:09,271 --> 01:16:12,541 - She is beautiful. - She is. 960 01:16:14,543 --> 01:16:16,811 More beautiful than your painting. 961 01:16:16,845 --> 01:16:21,750 - I've just begun. - You must do better, then. 962 01:16:21,784 --> 01:16:24,853 Her hair curls, here. 963 01:16:27,690 --> 01:16:29,158 Who is she? 964 01:16:29,192 --> 01:16:32,60 Giulia Farnese. 965 01:16:32,95 --> 01:16:34,462 At your service. 966 01:16:34,497 --> 01:16:37,498 Why is he painting you, 967 01:16:37,533 --> 01:16:39,501 Giulia Farnese? 968 01:16:39,536 --> 01:16:42,837 Your father, the pope, commissioned him. 969 01:16:42,872 --> 01:16:44,640 Will he paint one of me? 970 01:16:44,673 --> 01:16:46,774 I will commission him, now. 971 01:16:49,779 --> 01:16:51,747 Why are you holding a baby goat? 972 01:16:51,780 --> 01:16:55,16 It will become a unicorn. 973 01:16:55,51 --> 01:16:57,51 Then I want a unicorn. 974 01:17:00,823 --> 01:17:04,359 Or even better, a sea horse. 975 01:17:09,466 --> 01:17:13,402 I want to lie on a bed of seashells and have a sea horse in my lap. 976 01:17:13,435 --> 01:17:15,304 Like this one? 977 01:17:19,809 --> 01:17:22,711 Yes. 978 01:17:22,746 --> 01:17:25,146 Just like this one. 979 01:17:25,180 --> 01:17:27,48 You must have it, then. 980 01:17:27,82 --> 01:17:29,318 I can? 981 01:17:33,155 --> 01:17:35,791 It's a gift. 982 01:17:35,824 --> 01:17:39,728 From Giulia to Lucrezia. 983 01:17:39,762 --> 01:17:43,931 - Can I kiss you, then? - Only if we are to be friends. 984 01:17:43,966 --> 01:17:46,969 We are friends already. 985 01:17:51,675 --> 01:17:54,243 I am to have my portrait painted, Mama. 986 01:17:54,277 --> 01:17:57,578 - You are? - But I don't want a goat, 987 01:17:57,613 --> 01:18:02,751 or a unicorn. I told Giulia I want a sea horse like this one. 988 01:18:02,786 --> 01:18:05,787 - You told who? - Giulia Farnese. 989 01:18:07,791 --> 01:18:10,426 Giulia Farnese is having her portrait painted? 990 01:18:10,460 --> 01:18:12,293 By Pinturicchio. 991 01:18:12,328 --> 01:18:14,729 Papa commissioned him. 992 01:18:18,635 --> 01:18:20,269 Ah. 993 01:18:20,302 --> 01:18:24,139 She gave me this pendant. 994 01:18:24,173 --> 01:18:28,109 I think a sea horse is better than a unicorn, don't you Mama? 995 01:18:28,144 --> 01:18:32,247 I've heard she is beautiful, this Giulia Farnese. 996 01:18:35,417 --> 01:18:39,87 - Papa thinks so. - I am sure he does. 997 01:18:43,193 --> 01:18:46,328 A different type of beauty to yours, Mama. 998 01:18:46,363 --> 01:18:50,932 Not Spanish. Italian. 999 01:18:50,966 --> 01:18:54,168 Her hair is light, and full of curls. 1000 01:19:00,275 --> 01:19:02,944 And where did you meet her, Lucrezia? 1001 01:19:04,948 --> 01:19:06,914 In Papa's rooms. 1002 01:19:06,949 --> 01:19:08,951 In the Vatican. 1003 01:19:16,725 --> 01:19:20,429 - Please, My Lady! - Your Holiness! 1004 01:19:20,462 --> 01:19:21,930 My dear. 1005 01:19:21,965 --> 01:19:25,100 You told me that the pope can love God, 1006 01:19:25,135 --> 01:19:27,168 but to be seen to love anyone else 1007 01:19:27,203 --> 01:19:29,70 would be impossible. Your Holiness-- 1008 01:19:29,104 --> 01:19:31,105 - Now, now-- - Shall we remove ourselves? 1009 01:19:31,140 --> 01:19:33,108 That the pope must be chaste, 1010 01:19:33,143 --> 01:19:36,110 and he must be seen to be chaste. 1011 01:19:36,145 --> 01:19:38,780 Don't you want them to hear? That you have a new whore?! 1012 01:19:38,814 --> 01:19:41,48 - Mother! - Farnese! 1013 01:19:41,83 --> 01:19:42,917 - Get out! - That you've installed her 1014 01:19:42,952 --> 01:19:44,853 in the Orsini Palace? What? 1015 01:19:44,887 --> 01:19:46,854 - We were-- - Be gone! 1016 01:19:46,890 --> 01:19:49,457 I banished my husband for your sake! 1017 01:19:49,492 --> 01:19:52,961 You are the mother of my children! You will always have a special place in my life. 1018 01:19:52,996 --> 01:19:55,963 - What about your promise?! - There is no one... 1019 01:19:55,998 --> 01:19:58,300 ...no one, closer to me than you. 1020 01:19:58,333 --> 01:19:59,868 Why her?! 1021 01:19:59,903 --> 01:20:02,604 She was in need! I had to help her. 1022 01:20:02,639 --> 01:20:05,573 You were destitute once! 1023 01:20:05,608 --> 01:20:07,975 Be gone! Out! 1024 01:20:08,11 --> 01:20:09,944 We were in consultation-- 1025 01:20:09,979 --> 01:20:12,480 Your Grace, are leaving. 1026 01:20:22,91 --> 01:20:24,91 Don't lie to me. 1027 01:20:24,127 --> 01:20:25,594 To me, you cannot lie. 1028 01:20:25,627 --> 01:20:27,261 Then don't challenge me. 1029 01:20:27,296 --> 01:20:29,797 And never, ever within these sacred walls. 1030 01:20:31,801 --> 01:20:35,804 I've dreamed about this room and what it might do to you. 1031 01:20:37,974 --> 01:20:40,475 We need a new understanding, then. 1032 01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,113 Perhaps. 1033 01:20:45,148 --> 01:20:47,615 I'll keep my peace. 1034 01:20:47,649 --> 01:20:49,984 But I won't be humiliated. 1035 01:20:52,822 --> 01:20:54,422 I would have peace. 1036 01:20:54,457 --> 01:20:57,893 You commissioned a portrait of her. 1037 01:20:57,926 --> 01:21:00,362 I shall have a portrait too 1038 01:21:00,395 --> 01:21:02,230 by the same new genius you found. 1039 01:21:02,265 --> 01:21:05,367 Pinturicchio. 1040 01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:08,703 He is good, but he's... 1041 01:21:08,738 --> 01:21:11,206 ...expensive. 1042 01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,877 All of Rome is yours for the taking. 1043 01:21:14,911 --> 01:21:17,712 Make sure he does me justice. 1044 01:21:17,747 --> 01:21:20,748 I was beautiful once, no? 1045 01:21:22,752 --> 01:21:25,20 You still are. 1046 01:21:25,54 --> 01:21:28,422 We agreed, did we not, that you would not lie? 1047 01:21:31,293 --> 01:21:35,730 He has placed his new whore in Orsini's palace, no? 1048 01:21:35,765 --> 01:21:37,899 I believe so, Your Eminence. 1049 01:21:37,934 --> 01:21:41,36 Question the staff, then, in secret, 1050 01:21:41,69 --> 01:21:45,73 and in any way you see fit. 1051 01:21:45,108 --> 01:21:47,609 We need evidence of lechery, 1052 01:21:47,644 --> 01:21:50,645 fornication-- 1053 01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:55,182 publico habet concubinem. 1054 01:21:57,520 --> 01:21:59,688 Get these to the Deacon- Cardinal for signatures. 1055 01:21:59,721 --> 01:22:01,222 Yes, Your Eminence. 1056 01:22:10,567 --> 01:22:13,34 He has met in secret with those cardinals 1057 01:22:13,69 --> 01:22:15,871 that hate your father. 1058 01:22:15,904 --> 01:22:17,706 With Johannes Burchard, 1059 01:22:17,739 --> 01:22:20,141 he is making a case for your father's deposition. 1060 01:22:20,176 --> 01:22:21,810 On what grounds? 1061 01:22:24,212 --> 01:22:27,349 Notorious and public lechery... 1062 01:22:27,382 --> 01:22:30,418 Lechery? My father? 1063 01:22:30,453 --> 01:22:32,587 God forbid. 1064 01:22:32,622 --> 01:22:34,122 Has he evidence? 1065 01:22:34,157 --> 01:22:37,492 He means to find it. 1066 01:22:40,762 --> 01:22:44,65 Then perhaps we should find it first, 1067 01:22:44,100 --> 01:22:46,534 and silence it before it speaks. 1068 01:22:48,871 --> 01:22:51,405 Your mother was somewhat troubled yesterday. 1069 01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:56,211 She finds the change in our life difficult. 1070 01:22:56,244 --> 01:22:58,212 So I noticed. 1071 01:22:58,247 --> 01:23:00,548 Do what you can to keep her out of here. 1072 01:23:02,551 --> 01:23:05,20 It would help, maybe, if you were more discreet 1073 01:23:05,54 --> 01:23:07,521 in your affections. But I-- 1074 01:23:07,556 --> 01:23:10,192 You are aware, Holy Father, of the plots against you? 1075 01:23:10,225 --> 01:23:13,561 Oh, what would Rome be without a good plot? 1076 01:23:15,564 --> 01:23:18,33 The College of Cardinals is split down the middle. 1077 01:23:18,67 --> 01:23:22,404 What? Well, perhaps we need some more cardinals. 1078 01:23:24,407 --> 01:23:26,875 Johannes Burchard has been asked for an opinion... 1079 01:23:26,908 --> 01:23:29,243 Dear old Johannes. 1080 01:23:29,278 --> 01:23:32,913 He does give excellent opinion. On your deposition, Father. 1081 01:23:34,917 --> 01:23:36,417 Indeed. 1082 01:23:36,452 --> 01:23:39,755 There are certain things I could speak of... 1083 01:23:41,757 --> 01:23:44,725 ...for a price. 1084 01:23:44,761 --> 01:23:48,63 Don't worry. You'll get paid. 1085 01:23:48,96 --> 01:23:49,930 I would need to be. 1086 01:23:51,934 --> 01:23:55,2 I have seen things within these walls 1087 01:23:55,37 --> 01:23:59,341 that would shock a brace of courtesans. 1088 01:23:59,375 --> 01:24:02,377 Well, now, there's no need to shock a courtesan, is there? 1089 01:24:02,412 --> 01:24:06,581 A brace of cardinals, perhaps. 1090 01:24:20,829 --> 01:24:25,167 You were asked for a judgement, I believe, 1091 01:24:25,201 --> 01:24:30,404 some nights ago? Your Holiness, as an expert 1092 01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:34,242 on canon law, when asked for a judgement, I must provide it. 1093 01:24:34,277 --> 01:24:36,645 Please sit. 1094 01:24:40,649 --> 01:24:43,150 I would have your opinion, then, 1095 01:24:43,185 --> 01:24:47,456 dear Johannes, on the expansion 1096 01:24:47,489 --> 01:24:50,158 of the College of Cardinals. 1097 01:24:50,193 --> 01:24:54,496 It is the pope's prerogative to appoint whom he wishes, 1098 01:24:54,529 --> 01:24:56,765 Your Holiness. To whatever number he wishes? 1099 01:24:56,798 --> 01:24:58,734 Ah, well, 1100 01:24:58,768 --> 01:25:01,269 how many cardinals did His Holiness have in mind? 1101 01:25:01,304 --> 01:25:05,640 How many would be needed to make it safe for our papacy? 1102 01:25:11,413 --> 01:25:13,681 - Oh, dear. - Come, come, Johannes. 1103 01:25:13,716 --> 01:25:17,385 You must be aware of the plots against us? 1104 01:25:17,420 --> 01:25:19,820 You could even, if viewed with an unkind eye, 1105 01:25:19,855 --> 01:25:22,490 be seen to be party to them. 1106 01:25:22,524 --> 01:25:25,393 When asked for an opinion, Your Holiness, you know 1107 01:25:25,427 --> 01:25:27,395 that I must provide it. 1108 01:25:27,430 --> 01:25:31,733 Ah. So, your opinion, then. 1109 01:25:31,768 --> 01:25:37,104 How many new cardinals to preserve our papacy? 1110 01:25:37,140 --> 01:25:39,940 Umm... 1111 01:25:43,546 --> 01:25:47,414 A baker's dozen, I would say. Mm! 1112 01:25:47,449 --> 01:25:49,451 Thirteen! 1113 01:25:51,453 --> 01:25:55,489 And we can appoint them all at once? 1114 01:25:55,524 --> 01:25:58,359 Without the vote of conclave? 1115 01:25:58,394 --> 01:26:00,996 Such a great number would need a precedent. 1116 01:26:01,29 --> 01:26:03,230 Oh. 1117 01:26:05,234 --> 01:26:08,369 Find one, then. 1118 01:26:08,404 --> 01:26:11,338 Your Holiness. 1119 01:26:11,373 --> 01:26:13,341 I have received advice 1120 01:26:13,376 --> 01:26:17,878 from our most supreme expert in canon law, 1121 01:26:17,913 --> 01:26:21,48 that a pope's election may be overturned 1122 01:26:21,82 --> 01:26:24,51 if we can provide evidence of lechery, 1123 01:26:24,86 --> 01:26:27,122 both notorious and public. 1124 01:26:27,155 --> 01:26:29,757 That evidence I present to you now. 1125 01:26:44,606 --> 01:26:46,474 Leave us, Micheletto. 1126 01:26:52,782 --> 01:26:56,184 And now, my dear, 1127 01:26:56,219 --> 01:26:58,686 tell us what you have witnessed. 1128 01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:03,358 There is a passage, connecting the palace to the Vatican. 1129 01:27:03,391 --> 01:27:07,662 His Holiness makes use of it... nightly. 1130 01:27:07,697 --> 01:27:09,997 And then? 1131 01:27:10,32 --> 01:27:15,337 He enters her bedroom while she chastises herself. 1132 01:27:15,371 --> 01:27:19,707 And I blush to even describe what happens next. 1133 01:27:19,742 --> 01:27:21,475 Spare us nothing. 1134 01:27:21,510 --> 01:27:24,979 I wanted seashells and a sea horse. 1135 01:27:25,14 --> 01:27:26,981 But you have a sea horse, my love. 1136 01:27:27,15 --> 01:27:29,350 No, I mean a real one. Like your goat. 1137 01:27:29,385 --> 01:27:33,520 But real sea horses are tiny, my love. 1138 01:27:33,555 --> 01:27:37,192 - Am I your love? - I would dearly love you to be. 1139 01:27:37,225 --> 01:27:40,194 My mother hates you. 1140 01:27:40,229 --> 01:27:42,264 You will learn, my dear, 1141 01:27:42,297 --> 01:27:46,67 as women, we control so little of our destiny. 1142 01:27:46,101 --> 01:27:48,703 Men do. And? 1143 01:27:48,738 --> 01:27:53,140 The outcome is, we hate each other. 1144 01:27:53,175 --> 01:27:56,310 But we should not. Who should we hate, then? 1145 01:27:56,345 --> 01:28:00,180 Men? No, my love. 1146 01:28:00,216 --> 01:28:03,818 It's in our nature to love them. 1147 01:28:03,853 --> 01:28:07,488 But we should protect ourselves against them. 1148 01:28:07,523 --> 01:28:10,658 Against our feelings towards them. 1149 01:28:10,693 --> 01:28:13,828 We will all of us, one day, be replaced. 1150 01:28:13,863 --> 01:28:16,297 Are you giving me instruction? 1151 01:28:16,332 --> 01:28:19,900 - Would you like me to? - I think I would. 1152 01:28:21,904 --> 01:28:25,873 What weapons do I have with which to protect myself? Your beauty. 1153 01:28:25,908 --> 01:28:29,877 - Is that a weapon? - It can be deadly, 1154 01:28:29,912 --> 01:28:31,845 when well used. 1155 01:28:31,881 --> 01:28:35,649 But beauty doesn't last forever. 1156 01:28:35,685 --> 01:28:38,686 Gone, like the snows of last year. 1157 01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:41,722 - What else? - When beauty fades? 1158 01:28:43,725 --> 01:28:45,193 Your wit. 1159 01:28:45,226 --> 01:28:47,362 Your intelligence. 1160 01:28:47,395 --> 01:28:51,166 - And I have those weapons? - Oh, in abundance. 1161 01:28:51,199 --> 01:28:56,470 You should cultivate them. You will be married some day. 1162 01:28:56,505 --> 01:29:02,176 You may need them-- sooner than you think. 1163 01:29:02,211 --> 01:29:05,279 Is she pretty, this piece of evidence? 1164 01:29:05,314 --> 01:29:08,82 She has her charms, My Lord. 1165 01:29:08,117 --> 01:29:11,185 Perhaps you could see that she takes a vow of silence. 1166 01:29:13,521 --> 01:29:15,856 Would God forgive us, Micheletto? 1167 01:29:17,859 --> 01:29:19,994 I know not the ways of God, My Lord. 1168 01:29:20,29 --> 01:29:22,396 But you know the ways of silence. 1169 01:29:24,367 --> 01:29:28,302 And we decree bullfighting will be permitted 1170 01:29:28,337 --> 01:29:33,108 within the walls of Rome on public festivals 1171 01:29:33,141 --> 01:29:35,944 and the last Thursday of every month. 1172 01:29:38,314 --> 01:29:42,117 And, finally, 1173 01:29:42,150 --> 01:29:45,819 the main business to hand. 1174 01:29:45,854 --> 01:29:48,957 Cardinal Della Rovere needs no staff today, understand? 1175 01:29:48,990 --> 01:29:52,60 For a day of meditation, he has requested peace and silence. 1176 01:29:52,94 --> 01:29:54,61 You can tell the others. 1177 01:29:56,465 --> 01:29:58,265 Have you not heard? 1178 01:29:58,300 --> 01:30:00,601 His Eminence needs no staff today. 1179 01:30:00,636 --> 01:30:04,838 It is a day of meditation. - He has much on his mind. - Too much, some might say. 1180 01:30:04,873 --> 01:30:08,976 Such is the burden of great office. Until tomorrow, my friend. 1181 01:30:10,979 --> 01:30:13,14 We wish to announce our decision 1182 01:30:13,48 --> 01:30:15,817 to expand the College of Cardinals, 1183 01:30:15,850 --> 01:30:19,654 in view of the crippling workload placed upon it 1184 01:30:19,688 --> 01:30:22,122 by our restructuring 1185 01:30:22,158 --> 01:30:25,326 of the affairs of our Holy Mother Church. 1186 01:30:27,328 --> 01:30:31,298 Thirteen new servants of God... 1187 01:30:31,332 --> 01:30:33,835 ...will receive the cardinal's biretta. 1188 01:30:33,868 --> 01:30:36,570 Thirteen?! 1189 01:30:36,604 --> 01:30:38,305 We have judged it wise 1190 01:30:38,340 --> 01:30:43,78 to strengthen the College of Cardinals, given the enemies 1191 01:30:43,112 --> 01:30:45,579 who have wormed their way within the Church of Rome. 1192 01:30:45,613 --> 01:30:47,582 This is against all precedence. 1193 01:30:47,615 --> 01:30:51,19 His Holiness will fill the College with his favourites. 1194 01:30:51,52 --> 01:30:55,323 I accuse His Holiness-- Ohhh! Of what are we now accused? 1195 01:30:55,356 --> 01:30:57,759 Of an offence against canon law. 1196 01:30:57,792 --> 01:31:01,95 Against the Law of our Holy Mother Church. 1197 01:31:01,130 --> 01:31:05,233 Canon law? But we have taken advice 1198 01:31:05,266 --> 01:31:09,970 from the most eminent of all of our canon lawyers. 1199 01:31:26,988 --> 01:31:28,789 Apple... 1200 01:31:28,823 --> 01:31:31,59 ...or peach? 1201 01:31:31,92 --> 01:31:33,828 Peach, I think. 1202 01:31:38,0 --> 01:31:39,667 I like peach. 1203 01:31:43,338 --> 01:31:45,105 Eat it all. 1204 01:31:47,109 --> 01:31:51,645 The Council of Constance is most clear on this matter. 1205 01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,349 I refer you to Statute 42, Paragraph 3-- 1206 01:31:54,382 --> 01:31:56,251 In brief, I pray. 1207 01:31:58,253 --> 01:32:01,655 His Holiness, the pope, may expand the College 1208 01:32:01,689 --> 01:32:03,957 to any number he deems appropriate, 1209 01:32:03,993 --> 01:32:06,127 if the burden of work necessitates-- 1210 01:32:06,162 --> 01:32:07,795 I challenge him to name them now! 1211 01:32:07,829 --> 01:32:10,64 Your Holiness. 1212 01:32:10,99 --> 01:32:12,100 Oh... 1213 01:32:12,134 --> 01:32:15,770 Dottore, if you would be so kind. 1214 01:32:15,804 --> 01:32:20,307 And His Holiness comes behind the Lady Giulia 1215 01:32:20,341 --> 01:32:24,45 thus! With the force of a stallion. 1216 01:32:27,850 --> 01:32:29,317 The Bishop of Lucca, 1217 01:32:29,350 --> 01:32:32,987 His Grace Fiorentini, will be named Cardinal Fiorentini. 1218 01:32:33,21 --> 01:32:37,457 The Bishop of Naples, His Grace Giovanni Mascoli, will be named Cardinal Mascoli. 1219 01:32:37,493 --> 01:32:40,295 The Bishop of Valencia, His Grace 1220 01:32:40,328 --> 01:32:43,765 Cesare Borgia, will be named Cardinal Borgia. 1221 01:32:43,798 --> 01:32:48,168 The pope would make his son a cardinal? 1222 01:32:48,203 --> 01:32:51,805 I warn you, I have evidence that will bring this house 1223 01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:55,42 crashing down around your ears. Evidence? 1224 01:32:55,77 --> 01:33:00,847 Of lechery, transgressions, both public and notorious! 1225 01:33:00,882 --> 01:33:02,984 Why, then, Cardinal, 1226 01:33:03,18 --> 01:33:04,719 you must present it. 1227 01:33:04,752 --> 01:33:06,887 I will! 1228 01:33:18,900 --> 01:33:23,3 The... Bishop of Lyon... 1229 01:33:28,109 --> 01:33:30,677 Though whether the Holy Father is as virile as you... 1230 01:33:30,712 --> 01:33:32,447 Surely he is. 1231 01:33:32,480 --> 01:33:34,148 Only God can tell. 1232 01:33:39,822 --> 01:33:42,323 A candle, if you please! 1233 01:33:44,993 --> 01:33:47,427 Where is everyone? 1234 01:33:54,103 --> 01:33:56,104 Is there nobody about? 1235 01:34:03,279 --> 01:34:05,78 Dear Lord, 1236 01:34:05,113 --> 01:34:08,82 I pray for your strength and guidance 1237 01:34:08,117 --> 01:34:10,917 in the trials to come. 1238 01:34:10,953 --> 01:34:13,387 Give us some sign 1239 01:34:13,421 --> 01:34:15,922 that Rome will be purified, 1240 01:34:15,957 --> 01:34:18,792 the Borgia stain will be banished forever-- 1241 01:34:30,139 --> 01:34:32,806 Guards! Guards! 1242 01:34:35,243 --> 01:34:37,211 Somebody! 1243 01:34:37,246 --> 01:34:39,380 Anybody! 1244 01:34:39,414 --> 01:34:40,914 Help! 1245 01:35:03,305 --> 01:35:06,274 Was the good cardinal known for lechery? 1246 01:35:06,307 --> 01:35:08,810 He was discreet in his affections, My Lord. 1247 01:35:08,844 --> 01:35:11,845 So discreet, indeed, 1248 01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:16,583 he asked me to clear the house of servants yesterday. 1249 01:35:16,618 --> 01:35:20,587 He must have had lecherous intentions, then. 1250 01:35:20,622 --> 01:35:24,24 But I'm... shocked that they ended in murder. 1251 01:35:24,59 --> 01:35:26,27 And now he's fled, My Lord. 1252 01:35:26,60 --> 01:35:30,997 I would recommend discretion in this matter. 1253 01:35:31,33 --> 01:35:33,734 The Church of Rome can ill afford another scandal. 1254 01:35:36,971 --> 01:35:40,274 Perhaps he desired her silence, My Lord. 1255 01:35:40,309 --> 01:35:44,811 He must have. Poor girl... 1256 01:35:44,846 --> 01:35:47,681 Whom can one trust, in this Rome of ours? 1257 01:35:47,716 --> 01:35:50,784 I believe trust needs to be earned, My Lord. 1258 01:35:50,819 --> 01:35:52,920 Perhaps. 1259 01:35:54,922 --> 01:35:56,923 And perhaps it has been. 1260 01:36:04,500 --> 01:36:07,502 ♪ 1261 01:36:09,505 --> 01:36:12,907 -- sync, corrected by elderman -- 1262 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net 1263 01:36:13,305 --> 01:37:13,326 OpenSubtitles recommends using Nord VPN from 3.49 USD/month ----> osdb.link/vpn