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Fifteen oh-two.
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Lucrezia Borgia is engaged to marry.
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May God bless this union with eternal
bliss and ten strong children.
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Pope Alexander suffers
through a painful divorce.
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- Gacet!
- Gacet is gone, Holiness.
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His Highness Cesare Borgia grapples
with betrayal across the Romagna.
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Borgia, as we speak, your own general,
Vitelli, conspires to overthrow you.
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De Lorqua, you will remain in Faenza
as governor.
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What brings them joy
brings us joy as well.
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- He is magnificent.
- While life...
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- The baby is a boy.
- And Silvia?
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...death, love, and vengeance
penetrate the Borgia family.
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I have granted your request
allowing you to murder di Calabria,
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yet guaranteeing that Lucrezia
will never suspect you.
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- I am forever in your debt.
- Yes. Yes, you are.
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Mama. You come so early
and unannounced.
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- I love to hear you call me mama.
- Well, are you not my mother?
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Not enough. I have acted
more like a jealous sister.
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Once I was La Rosa,
the most beautiful woman in Rome.
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More beautiful than Giulia.
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These days, I look in the mirror
and I see a face I do not recognize.
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The time has come to accept
that she is me.
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Especially now
that you will move to Ferrara
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with your true love, Alfonso d'Este.
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My true love... I am not certain
that what I feel for Alfonso is true love.
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How can this be?
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I am troubled by the same nightmare
each hour I sleep.
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I see d'Este lording
over the body of di Calabria
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as the victor in a duel of death.
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And so I face my wedding day with dread.
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Bajazet Veli, padishah
of the Ottoman Empire presents
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a special envoy Aslam...
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...Aslam Gacet.
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Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Church,
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Bajazet the Just, with deepest respect,
offers you...
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Leave.
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- ...his most sincere...
- Leave now.
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To dismiss the ambassador
of the padishah
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is to dismiss the padishah himself.
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Fine.
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Fine.
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Fine.
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You stay.
All else, out!
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Verbum incarnatum.
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- Should I remain, Grandpapa?
- No.
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How can we allow you to work for Bajazet
with the many secrets you hold?
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Name your price. You can retire
like a Moorish prince.
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You offer money.
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In doing so, you insult me yet again.
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Still do you do not know me.
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Rodrigo, I would have died for you.
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And would you now die for Bajazet?
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My obligations to the padishah
are of a different nature.
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He should be made aware
of your perversities.
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He already knows.
And he has perversities of his own.
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Still, you are a danger.
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Perhaps this will sway your mood.
The rarest gems of the Ottoman Empire.
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Inform your master of our displeasure
in his hiring you.
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We will denounce you loudly
in public, but...
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...we are losing our beloved daughter
to Ferrara.
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Though you cannot stand by our side...
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...your presence provides us
with some mote of comfort...
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...as our world slowly disintegrates.
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- Goddamn you, Cesare Borgia.
- Curse you, Borgia.
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Please, for the love of God,
please, a word. Please.
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I beg you, blessed one.
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Take my son away from me.
Away from Faenza. I beg you.
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I beg you.
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Why would a mother ever ask
such a terrible favor?
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We are starving.
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Donna coraggiosa,
your son will not starve.
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None of you will starve!
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You are an angel, sent by God.
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- Blessed one.
- Onward.
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- Hooray, Astorre.
- Blessed one.
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- Astorre. Astorre.
- Blessed one.
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Welcome back, Your Grace.
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You have returned
not a moment too soon.
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Our informants report Vitelli, Bentivoglio
and Petrucci have combined their armies
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and are moving at an alarming speed
against you, headed here to Faenza.
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- Where are the traitors now?
- Very close to Ravenna.
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They will use the coast
as a base camp to attack.
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I am not surprised
that their three heads combined
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result in the most obvious of tactics.
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Still, urgent action is required.
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Battles need to be fought,
buffoons need to be fooled.
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Where is Ramiro de Lorqua?
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Waiting for you in the throne room,
the room he loves most.
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Why, when I entered the city,
was I greeted
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with eyes filled with venom and bile?
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Your governor rules
with a cleaver and a sword.
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The citizens pay him with gold
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or with their hands, one digit at a time.
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De Lorqua has gone against all
that I instructed.
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I suspect for de Lorqua, anything
short of murder is an act of kindness.
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My liege, Faenza revels
at your safe return.
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I have much to discuss with you.
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First, income from the manufacture
of majolica has doubled,
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due to my skills at reorganization.
A gift for you.
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The artisans use a glaze of tin
to make the scene shine like a jewel.
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Notice the details,
the spear through the lines...
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Did I not ask you to secure for me
the love of Faenza's populace?
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- I have obeyed your orders.
- No, you taught them fear. Distrust.
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These people were an unruly lot.
Now they will do what you command.
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- With their hands or without?
- I leave them enough with which to work.
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Do you fear me, Ramiro?
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I did not join Vitelli
and the other mutineers
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because just as a Spanish hound
adores his master...
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...I love you and only you, Cesare.
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Then which keeps you by my side?
Your love or your fear?
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- Goffredo Borgia, Prince of Squillace.
- Goffy!
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- My son, welcome to Rome.
- Welcome home.
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I would not miss this wedding
for all the terra cotta in Squillace.
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- Mama.
- Oh!
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You are the size of Cesare.
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Cousin.
Isabella, dear sister.
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I have just had the pleasure of speaking
to your son Aurelio.
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You must be very proud
of his achievements.
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As proud as Vannozza is of you.
And how is your wife, Highness?
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She is, and will always be, a cunt.
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- Pleasant surprise, Giulia.
- A surprise, really?
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Surely you know that among the women
of Rome, I have the greatest durability.
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We thank God for bringing our family
together one last time.
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- La famiglia.
- La famiglia.
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King Federigo lives in fear of the
impending attack on Naples by France.
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He need not worry.
Spain will save his fat ass.
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Spain's triumph may be our defeat,
since Cesare serves King Louis.
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And you serve Federigo.
We Borgia are covered front to back.
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Most Holy Father, may I present
my three younger brothers:
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Ippolito, bishop of Esztergom,
soon to be a cardinal.
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Ferrante, a brigadier in the Ferrara army.
And the youngest of us, Sigismondo.
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Are you certain he is not the eldest?
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The burden of my priestly vocation weighs
down my shoulders and pales my skin.
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Do not those of us who are the wisest
age the worst?
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There is a bird in Britannia
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so small you cannot see it.
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I have one.
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Please forgive my brother. A disease
has reached his brain. He is useless.
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Or he is the holiest of you all.
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Vitelli has once again approached
Florence,
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asking us to join his military alliance
against you.
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You are here. Therefore,
the signory continues to refuse.
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Why anger France? Or the pope?
Or you?
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And who is to say that, if you are gone,
Vitelli or one of the others
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- will not try to be you?
- Because no one can be me.
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Niccolo, you come to tell me things.
But you come to read me as well, yes?
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Then read.
Can you see what is in my heart?
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Or is there only a pit
where others have a soul?
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Do I love or merely pretend to?
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Why do my enemies wait to attack?
They know where I am.
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Here with the highborn men of Faenza
eating off their painted plates.
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The cabal is stymied.
Each man has his own agenda.
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Each calculating how to swallow
up the spoils. None trusting the others
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or willing to commit
to any hasty course of action.
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Worse, they fear, in failure,
your vindictiveness.
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Then they have already lost.
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If they have, they do not know.
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The more I learn about my generals,
the less I respect them.
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Take Vitelli. He has a fine reputation,
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but I have never seen him perform
an act of bravery.
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He is only good for pillaging
the defenseless
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and killing the innocent from behind.
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Who is he? Who are any of these men
compared to me?
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None have the wit to hit me
at the right time.
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Nor will they have the leisure
to repent their duplicity.
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Dionigi, you have my battle plan?
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Take your troops and help those cowards
with their indecision.
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And I will appoint a new governor
of Faenza.
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- What of de Lorqua? He is still...
- Here, yes, but leaving.
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He will be leaving us soon.
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The saw... and the wedge.
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They are butcher's tools.
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Used to slice pigs.
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Please, I beg of you. Let us remove
the body for a Christian burial.
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The cur is to remain in the piazza
for every citizen to see
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until he is eaten by other curs.
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Give him a burial!
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- Shame on you!
- Get him off the square!
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Attacks against the Holy Church
are increasing.
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I knew the printing press was
a catastrophe
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from the moment I first saw
the hellish machine.
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Which was when exactly?
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On the same day Giulia Farnese
almost died in the Judaeorum borgo.
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Pentecost of our Lord's year 1494.
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Christ! I wish I had your memory.
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My memory is reminded by pen and paper.
I write everything down.
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Yes, of course, in the papal ledger.
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Giulia Farnese does not appear
on the official ledger.
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I have been keeping my own ledger.
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All of the Borgia family secrets.
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Or at least the ones I witnessed.
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Herr Burchard, you jest.
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I am like Thomas, the doubting apostle.
I must see to believe.
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Nobody has ever seen my diaries.
Nobody ever will.
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I too have secrets, unshared.
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And yet with you,
I feel I can open my heart.
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Giuliano.
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Cesare has murdered de Lorqua,
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one of his last remaining loyal generals,
and yet suffers no consequences.
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De Lorqua deserved to die!
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We will not defeat the Borgia with lances,
but with sentences. Burchard's diaries...
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Besmirching the papal family
with derogatory pamphlets
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- has, in the past, failed.
- All were anonymously written.
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Burchard's name bestows credibility upon
Colonna's slanders and my castigations.
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The kings of Europe will call a council
to depose this mountebank of a pope.
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You can count his reign in days.
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Give them to Colonna for safekeeping.
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He will consider such an act
a sign of trust on my part.
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And he will be left holding
the incriminating evidence
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if things go to shit.
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- Have you read Burchard's diaries?
- Yes.
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You must destroy them before Colonna
and della Rovere expose
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their libelous content to the world.
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I must? How?
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Colonna will hold a gathering
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to inaugurate
a new painting by Jacopo Palma.
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- You are invited, are you not?
- Yes, but I have intention of going.
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Once inside the palazzo,
locate the diaries and...
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You no longer owe loyalty to the pope.
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Why do you care
if these pages are circulated?
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When I was loyal, I acted solely
in Rodrigo Borgia's interests.
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There is much in those pages which would
ruin my standing with my new employer.
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I think that what you want is to give
these diaries to your Turkish master
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and cause me to fall from papal grace,
like Adam in Eden.
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Burchard is a prude, whose self-
righteousness allows little leeway.
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When he recounts Cesare's misdeeds,
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he implicates the friends
of Cesare as well.
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Remolino, Giovanni de Medici, you.
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I wonder how such scandal would taint
your chances of becoming pope.
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Please, be at ease, good fellows.
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Astorre, may I borrow Signora Cleofe?
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I am willing, if Bella Bolognese agrees
of course.
234
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- What do you think of my friend there?
- Stolen from the citizens of Rimini.
235
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From their tyrant.
236
00:20:17,274 --> 00:20:21,834
Who is the tyrant? Did you not slaughter
most of the Malatesta?
237
00:20:21,914 --> 00:20:25,114
Pandolfo Malatesta cruelly oppressed
his people.
238
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And betrayed his word to me
after I offered benign exile.
239
00:20:28,514 --> 00:20:31,434
Is that why Dorotea fled from you
and has hidden your daughter?
240
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Because you are benign?
241
00:20:33,794 --> 00:20:35,314
You have a razor tongue.
242
00:20:35,394 --> 00:20:40,314
I speak with you only because
Astorre Manfredi wishes me to.
243
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Later you will fuck me
because I wish to hear you scream.
244
00:20:47,914 --> 00:20:52,434
Forgive me, Highness. I have led
our army back to Faenza in retreat.
245
00:20:52,514 --> 00:20:56,434
Baglioni's troops have joined the other
villains. Their numbers were too great.
246
00:20:56,514 --> 00:20:59,554
Faenza is now surrounded
by our enemies.
247
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You will go to France. We need Louis
to send more men at once.
248
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If you were truly an honorable man,
you would surrender.
249
00:21:10,914 --> 00:21:14,714
I do not take military advice from a woman
whose bosom outweighs her brain.
250
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When Astorre Manfredi ruled alone,
251
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Faenza was never overrun
with such horror and doom.
252
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Come with me.
253
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- Cesare, what will you do?
- Tomorrow I leave for Rome.
254
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- Rome?
- To dance at my sister's wedding.
255
00:21:51,914 --> 00:21:55,154
But... what of your enemies?
256
00:21:55,234 --> 00:21:58,714
In the three years you have known me,
what have you learned?
257
00:21:59,914 --> 00:22:03,714
Their spies will inform them
that I left with no guard accompanying me.
258
00:22:03,794 --> 00:22:07,074
Bentivoglio will argue
that now is the time to attack.
259
00:22:07,154 --> 00:22:12,234
Vitelli will say that this is some ploy
of mine, a trap. Baglioni will stutter.
260
00:22:12,314 --> 00:22:16,154
My trip to Rome is such a blatant folly
that they will sit on their asses for days
261
00:22:16,234 --> 00:22:19,794
in fear, cudgeling their brains
to make sense of it.
262
00:22:21,074 --> 00:22:24,674
Now I ask again. What have you learned
by observing me?
263
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That leadership is strongest
when there is but one man who leads.
264
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I love you, as everyone does.
265
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I will leave Faenza with you.
266
00:22:43,434 --> 00:22:48,354
Reports of strange practices
in the New World waft across the ocean.
267
00:22:49,594 --> 00:22:53,154
There exists a people who raise a boy
to be a god.
268
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They bow before the chosen one.
269
00:22:55,754 --> 00:22:57,954
They bejewel him
in brightly colored stones.
270
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They give him the best of what
they possess: food, palaces, women.
271
00:23:02,594 --> 00:23:06,754
And after one year of adoring him,
they kill him.
272
00:23:08,714 --> 00:23:11,834
They open up his chest
and remove his heart.
273
00:23:11,914 --> 00:23:17,594
They chop up his body and eat his flesh.
Then they choose another boy.
274
00:23:19,354 --> 00:23:23,554
- Would you accept such an agreement?
- Cesare, do not...
275
00:23:23,634 --> 00:23:27,914
No matter what I do or say. No matter
how gentle or how harsh my rule,
276
00:23:27,994 --> 00:23:32,554
the people of Faenza will always
compare me to you. Do you understand?
277
00:23:32,634 --> 00:23:36,354
I cannot kill you
and I cannot let you live.
278
00:23:36,434 --> 00:23:40,714
Tell me that you understand.
Explain my situation to me.
279
00:23:40,794 --> 00:23:43,794
If you are to confound
your traitorous generals,
280
00:23:43,874 --> 00:23:46,914
you must be certain that Faenza
is fully under your control.
281
00:23:46,994 --> 00:23:49,034
Yes, therefore?
282
00:23:51,274 --> 00:23:54,114
You cannot leave Faenza
as long as I am alive
283
00:23:54,194 --> 00:23:58,234
because my subjects would demand
that I retake the throne.
284
00:23:59,234 --> 00:24:02,034
And would you accept their demand?
285
00:24:04,514 --> 00:24:06,754
I cannot lie to you.
286
00:24:08,554 --> 00:24:10,194
I would.
287
00:24:10,274 --> 00:24:12,794
And so I would be forced to retaliate,
288
00:24:12,874 --> 00:24:17,594
unleashing a terrible vengeance
upon this wonderful city.
289
00:24:25,794 --> 00:24:28,354
Then you must execute me.
290
00:24:33,434 --> 00:24:38,674
I have eliminated many men,
but you, sweet Astorre...
291
00:24:39,714 --> 00:24:42,794
I loathe the idea of causing you harm.
292
00:24:48,074 --> 00:24:51,314
As a soldier, you would be willing to die
in battle.
293
00:24:51,394 --> 00:24:55,954
- Yes, of course.
- So rather than by an enemy's arrow...
294
00:25:00,554 --> 00:25:03,274
...you will end your own life.
295
00:25:03,354 --> 00:25:07,034
Tear open your own chest,
pierce your own heart.
296
00:25:07,114 --> 00:25:09,394
And I will watch and suffer with you,
297
00:25:09,474 --> 00:25:11,954
but I will not touch you
until you are dead.
298
00:25:14,154 --> 00:25:17,274
Then I will carry you in my arms
before your people
299
00:25:17,354 --> 00:25:19,794
and read aloud your note of despair
300
00:25:19,874 --> 00:25:23,554
detailing the reasons
why you have killed yourself.
301
00:25:24,554 --> 00:25:27,954
You will beg them to love me
in your place.
302
00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:35,074
Finally, I will bury you amongst
your ancestors in a golden tomb.
303
00:25:40,514 --> 00:25:43,874
I love you, Cesare,
more than my mortality.
304
00:25:44,874 --> 00:25:49,434
Yes, I die gladly, so that Faenza
and you will live.
305
00:26:01,554 --> 00:26:05,434
- Beautiful.
- And this I will wear as I enter Ferrara.
306
00:26:06,434 --> 00:26:08,074
Exquisite.
307
00:26:11,714 --> 00:26:13,994
You are an artist, Ferrante?
308
00:26:14,074 --> 00:26:16,714
A drawing for my sister Isabella,
the marchioness of Manuta.
309
00:26:16,794 --> 00:26:21,034
She is desperate to know every item
you own, every style you wear.
310
00:26:21,114 --> 00:26:22,354
She is jealous of our Lucrezia?
311
00:26:22,434 --> 00:26:25,834
She is jealous of the moonlight,
if the beam does not shine on her.
312
00:26:25,914 --> 00:26:28,914
Angela, why do you never
look me in the eye?
313
00:26:28,994 --> 00:26:34,194
I hope to have a wedding of my own.
You are to be a cardinal.
314
00:26:34,274 --> 00:26:38,074
One day, when you are no longer
young and sweet,
315
00:26:38,154 --> 00:26:42,674
when your skin slackens and
your husband has lost his interest,
316
00:26:42,754 --> 00:26:46,434
you will realize that to be my mistress...
317
00:26:47,394 --> 00:26:50,594
...is better than being the wife
of any other man.
318
00:26:52,354 --> 00:26:55,434
Come, let us find some Roman whores.
319
00:27:00,714 --> 00:27:03,274
The d'Este boys have limited goals:
320
00:27:03,354 --> 00:27:05,954
to fill their bellies
and quench their desires.
321
00:27:06,034 --> 00:27:08,674
They are men despite their pedigree.
322
00:27:08,754 --> 00:27:11,914
I wonder how different can Alfonso be
from his brothers
323
00:27:11,994 --> 00:27:15,434
having grown to fruition
in the same orchard?
324
00:27:15,514 --> 00:27:20,674
What dark deed has my fiancé performed
to gain a permanent place in my bed?
325
00:27:23,154 --> 00:27:24,554
- Ah.
- Cesare.
326
00:27:24,634 --> 00:27:27,514
What specter of nature
do I see before me?
327
00:27:27,594 --> 00:27:32,714
Lucrezia, goddesses of charm,
creativity, beauty and fertility.
328
00:27:32,794 --> 00:27:34,914
I am so relieved you are safe.
329
00:27:34,994 --> 00:27:38,954
We heard that you were trapped
in Faenza, your armies surrounded.
330
00:27:39,034 --> 00:27:41,274
Rumors, Mama.
I am in no danger.
331
00:27:41,354 --> 00:27:44,554
Except for the joyous danger which comes
from loving my family
332
00:27:44,634 --> 00:27:46,874
beyond the realm of reason.
333
00:27:46,954 --> 00:27:53,434
I have ordered 13 days of spectacle.
Races, masked balls and performances.
334
00:27:53,514 --> 00:27:59,514
Let us not celebrate your wedding from
a distance, for there is none between us.
335
00:28:02,314 --> 00:28:08,274
My friends, I am pleased to feed your
eyes with this sumptuous feast of art,
336
00:28:08,354 --> 00:28:12,274
commissioned by me,
entitled the Violante.
337
00:28:12,354 --> 00:28:17,714
Please give your praise
to the perfectionist, Jacopo Palma.
338
00:28:17,794 --> 00:28:19,034
Jacopo.
339
00:28:20,034 --> 00:28:25,554
Titian once said: "He who improvises
can never make a perfect line of poetry,"
340
00:28:25,634 --> 00:28:27,954
thus painting is the willingness...
341
00:28:47,794 --> 00:28:51,714
True. True. True. True. True.
342
00:28:53,154 --> 00:28:54,554
True.
343
00:28:56,674 --> 00:29:02,154
True. True. True. True. True.
344
00:29:06,034 --> 00:29:07,874
True...
345
00:29:07,954 --> 00:29:09,514
Fake.
346
00:29:24,354 --> 00:29:28,594
Sorry, Alessandro, I did not think
you would come.
347
00:29:32,514 --> 00:29:35,314
Sweet Judas.
348
00:29:36,034 --> 00:29:39,874
- Give those diaries to me.
- You will have to kill me.
349
00:29:39,954 --> 00:29:45,594
And I am unarmed. Oh, I had forgotten.
That's how you live.
350
00:29:45,674 --> 00:29:50,914
Waiting for a man to lower his defenses
and then strike the final blow.
351
00:29:50,994 --> 00:29:53,234
You have always been a pompous ass.
352
00:29:53,314 --> 00:29:57,034
But then again, I have always fancied
a man's ass, no matter how pompous.
353
00:29:57,114 --> 00:30:00,554
Yet, you will sleep alone tonight.
354
00:30:00,634 --> 00:30:03,914
Even when I sleep with someone else,
I sleep alone.
355
00:30:03,994 --> 00:30:09,514
- Then go on, killer. Kill me.
- I do not need to kill you.
356
00:30:10,874 --> 00:30:12,554
Guards!
357
00:30:51,954 --> 00:30:53,714
These are mine.
358
00:31:16,034 --> 00:31:21,914
Murder! Murder! Murder!
359
00:31:38,434 --> 00:31:43,914
I like to see Alfonso d'Este, who has
waited so long to be your husband
360
00:31:43,994 --> 00:31:46,234
wait a little longer.
361
00:31:48,914 --> 00:31:53,914
I intend to torture him, but he will
certainly be the best of your husbands.
362
00:31:57,834 --> 00:31:59,314
Will he?
363
00:32:00,714 --> 00:32:06,194
Queen of my heart, with every step closer,
you are more beautiful.
364
00:32:09,234 --> 00:32:10,714
Flamenco!
365
00:33:53,194 --> 00:33:55,194
Will you not enter?
366
00:33:55,274 --> 00:34:00,554
You should rest. Tomorrow will require
the endurance of a marathon runner.
367
00:34:06,834 --> 00:34:12,954
- Is it true you no longer sleep?
- Only when I am tired. I am never tired.
368
00:34:17,074 --> 00:34:21,274
When I am married and not in Rome,
will I ever see you?
369
00:34:21,354 --> 00:34:24,594
You have been married.
I have been out of Rome,
370
00:34:24,674 --> 00:34:27,954
and yet here we stand, face-to-face.
371
00:34:28,034 --> 00:34:31,634
More honest with each other
than we have ever been.
372
00:34:32,714 --> 00:34:35,234
Then I will be even more honest.
373
00:34:39,714 --> 00:34:44,194
Cesare, I have long believed that you
murdered Alfonso di Calabria.
374
00:34:44,274 --> 00:34:46,914
Whether I did or did not,
you have forgiven me.
375
00:34:46,994 --> 00:34:48,514
Yes.
376
00:34:49,234 --> 00:34:53,034
But now I fear that I had
no reason to forgive you.
377
00:34:53,114 --> 00:34:56,354
That someone else committed the crime.
378
00:34:57,434 --> 00:35:00,354
The man whom tomorrow I will marry.
379
00:35:01,234 --> 00:35:04,434
Lucrezia, I swear, I am the guilty one.
380
00:35:09,314 --> 00:35:12,314
Swear upon the love you and I share.
381
00:35:14,514 --> 00:35:15,914
I do.
382
00:35:18,114 --> 00:35:20,914
Alfonso d'Este is innocent.
383
00:35:20,994 --> 00:35:25,034
And say again, he will make
the best of husbands.
384
00:35:47,114 --> 00:35:48,714
I will sleep.
385
00:35:52,794 --> 00:35:54,714
I will guard your door.
386
00:36:16,034 --> 00:36:19,034
I want the murderer impaled,
387
00:36:19,114 --> 00:36:24,754
and I want his putrid entrails
to leak out of his anus,
388
00:36:24,834 --> 00:36:28,754
so that I can stuff them into his mouth
389
00:36:28,834 --> 00:36:32,194
and see him gag on his own shit.
390
00:36:32,274 --> 00:36:38,274
And I want his balls cut off and minced
and fried and fed to the dogs!
391
00:36:41,234 --> 00:36:46,234
Giuliano, you seem to feel strongly
enough to interrupt us as we dress
392
00:36:46,314 --> 00:36:48,794
for the wedding of our daughter.
393
00:36:48,874 --> 00:36:53,434
He was more essential to me
than I thought.
394
00:36:54,914 --> 00:36:58,114
We will put our best efforts on the case.
395
00:36:58,194 --> 00:37:03,594
How can I be certain the investigation
will be led in a diligent manner?
396
00:37:03,674 --> 00:37:07,514
Bishop Alidosi never found a place
in your heart.
397
00:37:08,794 --> 00:37:13,714
We, the pope, care about justice.
398
00:37:15,634 --> 00:37:17,354
You have our word.
399
00:37:38,354 --> 00:37:42,314
I did not destroy
the diaries. I will rewrite our history.
400
00:37:44,874 --> 00:37:46,514
Inaccurate.
401
00:37:51,314 --> 00:37:54,794
Distorted, invalid, invent...
402
00:37:56,794 --> 00:38:00,314
A man has been killed
fighting over my diaries.
403
00:38:00,394 --> 00:38:02,554
How can I possibly redeem my soul?
404
00:38:02,634 --> 00:38:08,354
Our Lord, by depriving you of your
writings, has exacted your penance.
405
00:38:08,434 --> 00:38:13,434
Oh, but God did not deprive me
of my writings.
406
00:38:13,514 --> 00:38:18,674
The stolen diaries were decoys
filled with false information.
407
00:38:18,754 --> 00:38:21,514
I still possess the originals.
408
00:38:25,234 --> 00:38:29,354
Make clear a path
for the bride and groom.
409
00:39:12,594 --> 00:39:17,554
In nomine Patris, et Filii,
et Spiritus Sancti.
410
00:39:22,274 --> 00:39:24,714
To fix the moment in your mind.
411
00:39:38,234 --> 00:39:41,594
- I believe we've done our father proud.
- He is never satisfied.
412
00:39:41,714 --> 00:39:44,594
Cesare will sit next to Lucrezia.
413
00:39:44,674 --> 00:39:47,914
His sister is married.
She is my brother's wife.
414
00:39:47,994 --> 00:39:54,474
She is a bride, not yet a wife. Alfonso's
dainty ass can find another chair.
415
00:39:54,554 --> 00:39:57,594
- Outrageous ignoramus.
- Calm yourself.
416
00:39:57,674 --> 00:40:03,234
Calm. Calm. I have been wearing calm
since we came to the infernal city.
417
00:40:03,314 --> 00:40:07,234
Hold your tongue or you may wear
more red than your new robes.
418
00:40:07,354 --> 00:40:11,314
I am a cardinal. You dare to threaten
a prince of the Church?
419
00:40:11,394 --> 00:40:14,594
I am a real prince.
420
00:40:14,674 --> 00:40:16,554
And a Borgia.
421
00:40:16,634 --> 00:40:20,554
- Where is a sword?
- Please, please, please.
422
00:40:20,634 --> 00:40:23,434
- The bride and groom are due to enter.
- Stand back or you die.
423
00:40:23,514 --> 00:40:25,874
I'll summon the guards.
424
00:40:25,954 --> 00:40:28,794
- With a bleeding lip?
- Cease this brouhaha.
425
00:40:28,874 --> 00:40:32,914
The pope is about to endow us
with his presence.
426
00:40:35,594 --> 00:40:39,034
- Alfonso sits there.
- Cesare sits there.
427
00:40:42,154 --> 00:40:47,914
Alfonso sits next to his bride
on this side, Cesare on the other.
428
00:40:47,994 --> 00:40:51,514
If we are to fight,
like only a family can,
429
00:40:51,594 --> 00:40:56,954
then let us sit like one.
Side by side by side.
430
00:40:58,074 --> 00:41:02,354
His Holiness Pope Alexander
the Sixth of that name.
431
00:41:39,034 --> 00:41:42,434
I see that you have joined
the Turks as well.
432
00:41:48,274 --> 00:41:51,914
You have planned a lovely wedding,
Vannozza.
433
00:41:53,234 --> 00:42:00,234
The bride and groom, Lucrezia Borgia
and Alfonso d'Este.
434
00:43:00,594 --> 00:43:07,354
To my daughter Lucrezia, who brings
beauty and rectitude to our family's name.
435
00:43:08,594 --> 00:43:13,954
Now she will bring her goodness
to the House of d'Este. Salute.
436
00:43:14,034 --> 00:43:16,274
Salute.
437
00:43:19,594 --> 00:43:22,354
Alfonso, present your belt.
438
00:43:28,234 --> 00:43:31,034
Put the belt on her before I do.
439
00:43:33,594 --> 00:43:35,514
Forgive my brother's outrageous behavior.
440
00:43:35,594 --> 00:43:38,034
He has you only for the next few days.
441
00:43:38,114 --> 00:43:40,354
I have you for a lifetime.
442
00:43:55,954 --> 00:44:01,194
I sit here thanks to you. I see that you
can follow orders, Goffredo.
443
00:44:01,274 --> 00:44:06,554
Until now I have felt the pangs of being
the perennial little brother.
444
00:44:06,634 --> 00:44:09,234
I have looked up to you
and yet you've looked over me.
445
00:44:09,314 --> 00:44:12,914
Tonight is a night for defeating the past.
446
00:44:12,994 --> 00:44:16,234
I will name you
my chief military commander.
447
00:44:16,314 --> 00:44:19,354
I am honored.
But what of di Naldo?
448
00:44:19,434 --> 00:44:22,874
He has lost two battles,
which is two too many.
449
00:44:22,954 --> 00:44:26,554
He will return to Imola
and serve as my governor.
450
00:44:26,634 --> 00:44:30,514
I hear that the situation
in Faenza grows dire.
451
00:44:30,594 --> 00:44:33,514
Four of your allies now surround the city
as enemies.
452
00:44:33,594 --> 00:44:37,354
Yes. The only people
I can trust are family.
453
00:44:37,434 --> 00:44:41,314
Trust. Brother, I must ask.
454
00:44:41,394 --> 00:44:44,234
When you were in Naples with my wife...
455
00:44:44,314 --> 00:44:48,074
I am not Juan. I have never even
glanced at Sancia in lust.
456
00:44:48,154 --> 00:44:52,114
Did you sear a cross into her forehead
with a burning poker?
457
00:44:55,914 --> 00:44:57,354
Yes.
458
00:44:59,074 --> 00:45:01,874
I will lead your army until my death.
459
00:45:10,514 --> 00:45:13,634
Mama, I am sorry
I have been so distracted.
460
00:45:13,714 --> 00:45:16,274
The time for me to take my leave.
461
00:45:16,354 --> 00:45:22,034
- Why did you not sit with the family?
- No matter. This is your special day.
462
00:45:25,274 --> 00:45:27,954
Be careful of your brother.
463
00:45:29,274 --> 00:45:33,274
I fear he strangles
and thinks it an embrace.
464
00:45:44,794 --> 00:45:46,874
A song for my sister.
465
00:45:51,034 --> 00:45:56,714
♪ Your sweet face will always live ♪
466
00:45:56,834 --> 00:46:01,354
♪ Will always live in my memory ♪
467
00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:09,154
♪ Bend your eyes in pity ♪
468
00:46:09,274 --> 00:46:14,434
♪ In pity to my deep sorrow ♪
469
00:46:15,874 --> 00:46:21,514
♪ Since we are not free ♪
470
00:46:21,594 --> 00:46:26,274
♪ We will never be ♪
471
00:46:28,434 --> 00:46:34,354
♪ Since we are not free ♪
472
00:46:34,434 --> 00:46:40,874
♪ We will never be ♪
473
00:46:53,354 --> 00:46:56,354
Please do not tell me you are sad, Papa.
474
00:46:57,354 --> 00:47:00,274
Our eyes are not wet with tears, no.
475
00:47:01,314 --> 00:47:04,154
We have a cold that will not leave.
476
00:47:09,274 --> 00:47:12,434
We do not cry.
This is not a day for that.
477
00:47:12,514 --> 00:47:13,914
We celebrate.
478
00:47:15,434 --> 00:47:22,034
Darling girl, this is your chance
for happiness, love, peace.
479
00:47:23,074 --> 00:47:25,514
Then why does it not feel so?
480
00:47:25,594 --> 00:47:29,954
Because you are unaccustomed
to happiness, love and peace.
481
00:47:30,034 --> 00:47:34,034
Joys of life are not a given.
You must fight for them.
482
00:47:38,714 --> 00:47:42,914
We have one more wedding gift for you,
our daughter.
483
00:47:44,714 --> 00:47:49,674
We have made our grandson,
Rodrigo Borgia di Calabria
484
00:47:49,754 --> 00:47:52,274
the duke of Sermoneta.
485
00:47:53,914 --> 00:47:58,194
Both your sons are launched
on their own paths to greatness.
486
00:48:00,434 --> 00:48:01,874
Thank you, Papa.
487
00:48:10,834 --> 00:48:16,114
You must go. You have carriages waiting
for you and a new family to love.
488
00:48:17,594 --> 00:48:22,114
You go.
And do not look back.
489
00:48:22,194 --> 00:48:26,514
You do not look back because you know
that no matter what you need,
490
00:48:26,594 --> 00:48:31,794
whenever you need it, I will,
alive or dead, be there for you.
491
00:48:34,914 --> 00:48:36,354
Now go.
492
00:48:38,514 --> 00:48:42,714
And when I call your name
do not turn to me.
493
00:48:44,434 --> 00:48:45,954
Do not.
494
00:48:49,674 --> 00:48:51,354
You need to go.
495
00:49:01,714 --> 00:49:03,274
Lucrezia.
496
00:49:04,794 --> 00:49:06,314
Lucrezia.
497
00:49:07,514 --> 00:49:09,554
Lucrezia.
498
00:49:17,594 --> 00:49:19,834
I will always look back.
499
00:49:34,914 --> 00:49:38,074
Giovanni Sforza is living
in exile in Ferrara.
500
00:49:38,154 --> 00:49:44,114
- When my sister arrives he must be gone.
- Yes. Of course. I will send word.
501
00:50:15,034 --> 00:50:19,594
- Do you like the players?
- Only you would plan such magic.
502
00:50:19,674 --> 00:50:21,554
I have littered our long journey north
503
00:50:21,634 --> 00:50:24,714
with singers and clowns
and gypsy circuses.
504
00:50:24,794 --> 00:50:27,314
- In case you grow bored.
- You are the best of brothers.
505
00:50:27,394 --> 00:50:31,434
And that is all I am.
All I will ever be to you.
506
00:50:32,634 --> 00:50:39,074
We each begin a new life, informed
by our old lives but invented anew.
507
00:50:39,154 --> 00:50:42,034
Let us finally and forever
say goodbye to the past.
508
00:50:42,114 --> 00:50:45,714
- No, I am not ready.
- I am not either.
509
00:50:45,794 --> 00:50:48,354
But the future does not care.
510
00:50:50,914 --> 00:50:52,834
I love you, Lucrezia.
511
00:51:17,514 --> 00:51:20,434
- You must take action.
- I will handle Giovanni Sforza.
512
00:51:20,514 --> 00:51:24,114
- I need you to handle me, now. Hit me.
- I would never.
513
00:51:24,194 --> 00:51:28,234
Hit me and say, "my journey is mine,"
loudly as if you send an oath to heaven.
514
00:51:28,314 --> 00:51:29,314
Cesare, no.
515
00:51:29,394 --> 00:51:31,914
Until this moment, I did not know
if I could let her go.
516
00:51:31,994 --> 00:51:35,594
Hit me or I will kiss Lucrezia
as deeply as my tongue can reach.
517
00:51:35,674 --> 00:51:41,074
- And then I will fuck her and fuck her...
- My journey is mine!
518
00:52:20,594 --> 00:52:22,274
Ahead!
519
00:52:38,974 --> 00:53:05,320
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