1 00:00:00,036 --> 00:00:01,836 Previously on The Borgias... 2 00:00:01,937 --> 00:00:04,105 Giovanni Sforza. 3 00:00:04,173 --> 00:00:06,341 And my cousin, Catherina Sforza. 4 00:00:06,402 --> 00:00:08,424 You would have a taste of vengeance. 5 00:00:08,492 --> 00:00:09,995 The king is on the move. 6 00:00:10,063 --> 00:00:11,330 He says he will use his cannon 7 00:00:11,393 --> 00:00:13,359 to reduce our walls to dust. 8 00:00:13,428 --> 00:00:15,860 We fight fire with fire. 9 00:00:15,928 --> 00:00:17,494 You tricked the French King 10 00:00:17,562 --> 00:00:19,461 and now he comes for our blood! 11 00:00:19,528 --> 00:00:22,129 Do you expect us to support you twice? 12 00:00:23,535 --> 00:00:24,972 Do you know what this is? 13 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,348 It is the fresco you have so graciously commissioned. 14 00:00:27,415 --> 00:00:28,715 But it lacks a model. 15 00:00:28,783 --> 00:00:30,184 I would restore this hair 16 00:00:30,251 --> 00:00:32,891 to what it was before God snatched it from me. 17 00:00:32,959 --> 00:00:34,760 Will we meet again, Holy Father? 18 00:00:34,828 --> 00:00:36,565 Perhaps. Am I to be your mistress then? 19 00:00:36,666 --> 00:00:37,633 No. 20 00:00:37,734 --> 00:00:39,101 That position is taken. 21 00:00:39,169 --> 00:00:41,005 We will have you go through your accounts 22 00:00:41,072 --> 00:00:43,344 with one we have designated to supervise them. 23 00:00:43,413 --> 00:00:44,981 Unthinkable! 24 00:00:45,048 --> 00:00:46,950 That monies destined to the poor should go to the poor? 25 00:00:47,017 --> 00:00:50,156 That a woman have access to curatorial accounts. 26 00:00:50,224 --> 00:00:52,360 The French are advancing from Naples. 27 00:00:52,429 --> 00:00:55,766 They may murder the Borgia pope for you. 28 00:00:55,834 --> 00:00:57,367 We would discuss another cousin 29 00:00:57,435 --> 00:01:00,773 in whose hands the survival of our papacy may lie. 30 00:01:00,841 --> 00:01:03,310 Your Holiness refers to the Duke of Milan. 31 00:01:03,377 --> 00:01:05,145 This is true artistry. 32 00:01:05,213 --> 00:01:06,881 Indeed, my lord. It is but plaster. 33 00:01:06,948 --> 00:01:09,183 There are- Ninety-five more like it- 34 00:01:09,251 --> 00:01:11,954 making their way from other foundries as we speak. 35 00:01:12,022 --> 00:01:14,023 You are denied entry to Rome, my liege. 36 00:01:14,091 --> 00:01:15,793 My cannon will gain me entry. 37 00:01:15,861 --> 00:01:19,030 Perhaps my cannon will make their statement first. 38 00:01:19,098 --> 00:01:20,331 I warn you! 39 00:01:20,399 --> 00:01:22,033 I shall take terrible revenge! 40 00:01:22,134 --> 00:01:24,135 On you, your family, 41 00:01:24,236 --> 00:01:25,970 and the papacy itself! 42 00:01:26,038 --> 00:01:27,605 Retreat! 43 00:01:30,108 --> 00:01:36,499 [♪] 44 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:40,599 ♪ The Borgias 2x04 ♪ Stray Dogs Original Air Date on April 29, 2012 45 00:01:40,624 --> 00:01:44,624 == sync, corrected by elderman == 46 00:01:44,625 --> 00:03:00,940 [♪] 47 00:03:03,044 --> 00:03:05,112 [bells ringing] 48 00:03:05,213 --> 00:03:08,549 The saving of Rome. 49 00:03:08,617 --> 00:03:12,252 So, of what exactly were these cannon made? 50 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:13,888 Plaster, Your Holiness. 51 00:03:13,955 --> 00:03:15,189 Plaster! 52 00:03:15,257 --> 00:03:17,191 And an armature of wood. [chuckles] 53 00:03:17,259 --> 00:03:19,727 Senior Vittorio had every cast maker in Rome at work, 54 00:03:19,795 --> 00:03:20,995 day and night. 55 00:03:21,063 --> 00:03:22,630 We had not the bronze nor the time. 56 00:03:22,731 --> 00:03:26,567 So, deception has a place in warfare. 57 00:03:26,635 --> 00:03:29,537 As in life. Indeed. 58 00:03:29,605 --> 00:03:32,273 If you will excuse me, Holy Father. 59 00:03:36,012 --> 00:03:37,780 You come to celebrate, I hope. 60 00:03:37,847 --> 00:03:39,648 The French came by the road from Ostia. 61 00:03:39,749 --> 00:03:41,683 So? 62 00:03:41,751 --> 00:03:44,720 Their path took them by the convent of St. Cecelia. 63 00:03:47,091 --> 00:03:49,092 You have bad news? 64 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:51,728 Is there any other kind, Your Eminence? 65 00:04:04,711 --> 00:04:06,579 Hah! 66 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,214 Hah! Come on! 67 00:04:10,718 --> 00:04:12,485 We need some blankets. 68 00:04:12,586 --> 00:04:14,587 -have at her. 69 00:04:18,894 --> 00:04:20,795 You should spare yourself this, Your Eminence. 70 00:04:20,863 --> 00:04:24,232 Why? Why should I spare myself? 71 00:04:26,235 --> 00:04:29,771 I should have foreseen this. 72 00:04:50,492 --> 00:04:52,159 Your Eminence. 73 00:05:06,809 --> 00:05:08,776 Ursula. 74 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:27,294 She chose God, Micheletto. 75 00:05:27,362 --> 00:05:29,964 And God repaid her with mutilation. 76 00:05:30,032 --> 00:05:33,034 I know little of God, Your Eminence. 77 00:05:33,102 --> 00:05:36,538 God is deaf, God is blind, and pitiless. 78 00:05:39,308 --> 00:05:42,477 She has released my heart... 79 00:05:42,578 --> 00:05:44,445 of all emotions but one. 80 00:05:48,917 --> 00:05:50,751 Vengeance. 81 00:05:53,388 --> 00:05:55,289 Vengeance is sweet. 82 00:05:57,493 --> 00:05:59,393 So who did this, my friend? 83 00:05:59,494 --> 00:06:02,263 The French. 84 00:06:02,331 --> 00:06:05,434 This flag belongs to the cavalry of Gascony. 85 00:06:06,836 --> 00:06:10,072 These women were sport for army scouts. 86 00:06:10,140 --> 00:06:11,641 Scouts. 87 00:06:11,709 --> 00:06:14,010 They are renowned for their savagery. 88 00:06:14,111 --> 00:06:16,012 Necklaces of severed ears. 89 00:06:19,284 --> 00:06:21,819 [distant voice] ...the bodies. 90 00:06:21,887 --> 00:06:27,958 We must give them a lesson, then, in outrage. 91 00:06:28,026 --> 00:06:30,994 You were once a stray dog, Micheletto, masterless. 92 00:06:31,062 --> 00:06:32,962 I found my master in you. 93 00:06:33,030 --> 00:06:35,297 There must be other stray dogs out there in Rome. 94 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:36,565 There are many. 95 00:06:36,666 --> 00:06:38,366 Sons of warlike families, 96 00:06:38,434 --> 00:06:42,036 condottieri who have long outlived their usefulness. 97 00:06:42,104 --> 00:06:43,604 Search out a dozen of them 98 00:06:43,672 --> 00:06:46,107 whom we can school in the art of vengeance. 99 00:06:47,943 --> 00:06:54,048 [bells ringing] 100 00:06:55,250 --> 00:06:56,585 Holy Father. 101 00:06:56,686 --> 00:07:00,222 Ah. 102 00:07:00,289 --> 00:07:02,190 I have heard whispers about your beautiful deception. 103 00:07:02,258 --> 00:07:04,126 My congratulations. 104 00:07:07,063 --> 00:07:09,631 Deceit is how we must conduct ourselves, it seems. 105 00:07:09,699 --> 00:07:12,033 Cardinal Sforza brings a proposition from his cousin, 106 00:07:12,101 --> 00:07:14,669 Ludovico of Milan. 107 00:07:14,737 --> 00:07:18,307 At how the French can be defeated in open field. 108 00:07:18,374 --> 00:07:20,442 Forgive me for remembering, Cardinal. 109 00:07:20,510 --> 00:07:22,144 Is this the same Ludovico Sforza 110 00:07:22,211 --> 00:07:24,579 who gave the French free passage through Milan? 111 00:07:24,681 --> 00:07:27,649 Ludovico Sforza has received overtures. 112 00:07:27,717 --> 00:07:30,051 From the doge of Venice. 113 00:07:30,152 --> 00:07:32,653 From Francesco, the Duke of Mantua. 114 00:07:32,721 --> 00:07:35,556 To form a league to expel the French from our peninsula. 115 00:07:35,623 --> 00:07:37,024 But your other cousin, Catherina Sforza, 116 00:07:37,091 --> 00:07:38,525 rides with them. 117 00:07:38,593 --> 00:07:40,027 She has the arms she needed 118 00:07:40,095 --> 00:07:41,428 and has retired at her castle at Forli. 119 00:07:41,496 --> 00:07:43,731 And we forgive her such treachery? 120 00:07:43,798 --> 00:07:45,565 Perhaps. For the moment. 121 00:07:45,633 --> 00:07:48,101 Priorities can change, Cardinal Borgia. 122 00:07:48,169 --> 00:07:50,671 Indeed they can. 123 00:07:53,608 --> 00:08:03,049 [cheering] 124 00:08:03,117 --> 00:08:05,518 Welcome to Rome! 125 00:08:06,553 --> 00:08:08,154 Greetings! 126 00:08:08,255 --> 00:08:21,765 [cheering] 127 00:08:21,767 --> 00:08:34,777 [cheering] 128 00:08:34,779 --> 00:08:41,217 [cheering] 129 00:08:41,219 --> 00:08:48,691 [cheering] 130 00:09:01,537 --> 00:09:03,437 What is this? 131 00:09:07,109 --> 00:09:11,045 I have been told by my friend Micheletto 132 00:09:11,113 --> 00:09:12,447 that you know each other well enough 133 00:09:12,515 --> 00:09:13,815 to happily hate each other. 134 00:09:13,883 --> 00:09:15,951 I definitely do hate you, Battista. 135 00:09:16,019 --> 00:09:17,886 You piece of piss, Orsini. 136 00:09:17,954 --> 00:09:20,856 As a Colonna, I despise you and your sorry dick. 137 00:09:20,924 --> 00:09:23,793 But there is one you probably hate more. 138 00:09:23,861 --> 00:09:25,862 Who has ravaged your lands, 139 00:09:25,930 --> 00:09:28,898 your families' estates, your women, 140 00:09:28,965 --> 00:09:31,267 on their march to Naples? 141 00:09:31,368 --> 00:09:33,068 The French. 142 00:09:33,136 --> 00:09:35,404 Yes, yes. The French. 143 00:09:35,472 --> 00:09:37,773 You think we can defeat an army? 144 00:09:37,841 --> 00:09:39,074 No. 145 00:09:39,142 --> 00:09:40,643 No, my brother tried that and he failed. 146 00:09:40,710 --> 00:09:43,178 But, but we can have us some sport. 147 00:09:43,246 --> 00:09:45,080 We can taste revenge. 148 00:09:45,148 --> 00:09:46,748 We can strike them at night 149 00:09:46,816 --> 00:09:49,284 and move like smoke in the darkness. 150 00:09:49,385 --> 00:09:51,253 Huh? 151 00:09:51,321 --> 00:09:53,088 To what end, Cardinal? 152 00:09:53,190 --> 00:09:56,158 On your side, booty. 153 00:09:56,226 --> 00:09:59,361 On ours, revenge. 154 00:09:59,429 --> 00:10:03,732 We will ride out, camouflaged, masked. 155 00:10:03,833 --> 00:10:07,836 No one will know of our existence. 156 00:10:07,937 --> 00:10:10,639 Any volunteers? 157 00:10:18,715 --> 00:10:20,883 I have broached the matter of a league 158 00:10:20,950 --> 00:10:22,652 with His Holiness. 159 00:10:22,753 --> 00:10:23,953 He seems receptive. 160 00:10:24,021 --> 00:10:26,356 He can be tempted into battle? 161 00:10:26,424 --> 00:10:28,992 He can be tempted by anything- 162 00:10:29,060 --> 00:10:32,062 that gets him out of those papal robes. 163 00:10:37,336 --> 00:10:39,271 [clears throat] 164 00:10:44,244 --> 00:10:45,845 [exhales] 165 00:10:53,619 --> 00:10:56,487 Your Holiness, may I introduce my cousin, 166 00:10:56,588 --> 00:10:59,757 Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan? 167 00:11:07,132 --> 00:11:08,499 Your Holiness, 168 00:11:08,567 --> 00:11:11,136 may I introduce Francesco Gonzaga, 169 00:11:11,203 --> 00:11:15,306 Duke of Mantua, and his new minted bride, 170 00:11:15,374 --> 00:11:18,009 the lovely Duchessa Bianca. 171 00:11:41,937 --> 00:11:44,305 Divine indeed. 172 00:11:48,510 --> 00:11:49,977 Do diplomatic affairs 173 00:11:50,045 --> 00:11:53,213 not bore you rigid, Duchessa? 174 00:11:53,281 --> 00:11:56,583 They do, Your Holiness, 175 00:11:56,650 --> 00:12:00,019 but my husband's affections more than compensate. 176 00:12:02,189 --> 00:12:04,524 Ah. 177 00:12:04,591 --> 00:12:07,494 [door opens] 178 00:12:19,842 --> 00:12:21,810 If I may be so bold, Your Holiness, 179 00:12:21,878 --> 00:12:24,880 we have all of us one thing in common today. 180 00:12:24,947 --> 00:12:26,948 What, suspicion? Of each other? 181 00:12:27,016 --> 00:12:28,416 Or is it hatred? 182 00:12:28,484 --> 00:12:30,318 If the cardinal will let me finish... 183 00:12:30,419 --> 00:12:31,786 Indeed. 184 00:12:31,854 --> 00:12:33,688 The cardinal would find how hatred turns to love. 185 00:12:33,755 --> 00:12:35,156 My son! 186 00:12:35,224 --> 00:12:37,224 The French have laid waste to the papal states 187 00:12:37,291 --> 00:12:38,992 as they march northwards. 188 00:12:39,060 --> 00:12:42,429 Their king intends leave a desert behind him. 189 00:12:42,496 --> 00:12:44,264 By the time he reaches Milan, 190 00:12:44,331 --> 00:12:47,434 there will be nothing left of this paradise we live in. 191 00:12:47,502 --> 00:12:49,203 So why did you welcome them in? 192 00:12:49,271 --> 00:12:52,840 Our proposal is that the armies of Venice, of Milan, 193 00:12:52,908 --> 00:12:55,610 of the Duke of Mantua will combine 194 00:12:55,678 --> 00:12:58,447 to rid us of this French plague. 195 00:12:58,515 --> 00:13:00,082 Twenty thousand of our troops 196 00:13:00,150 --> 00:13:01,718 will meet them near the Apennines. 197 00:13:01,785 --> 00:13:03,687 We will annihilate their army 198 00:13:03,755 --> 00:13:05,889 and restore the reputation of Tuscan valour. 199 00:13:05,957 --> 00:13:08,591 Tuscan? And Milanese. 200 00:13:08,659 --> 00:13:10,627 Not to speak of Roman. 201 00:13:10,694 --> 00:13:11,994 Under whose leadership? 202 00:13:12,062 --> 00:13:14,164 Under the leadership of Francesco Gonzaga, 203 00:13:14,232 --> 00:13:15,798 Duke of Mantua. 204 00:13:15,866 --> 00:13:17,534 With the blessing of His Holiness, 205 00:13:17,601 --> 00:13:19,169 the Pope of Rome. 206 00:13:19,237 --> 00:13:21,538 His Holiness has proved his courage 207 00:13:21,606 --> 00:13:23,507 to the whole of Italy. 208 00:13:23,574 --> 00:13:26,243 And the whole of Italy will rally to his cause. 209 00:13:26,311 --> 00:13:27,779 Then why not just let the French 210 00:13:27,846 --> 00:13:29,080 limp their way home? 211 00:13:29,148 --> 00:13:31,616 One word. Honour. 212 00:13:31,717 --> 00:13:33,118 Honour? 213 00:13:33,186 --> 00:13:37,089 The word meant something once, did it not? 214 00:13:44,098 --> 00:13:45,532 talks of honour, Father. 215 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:46,767 There is nothing- 216 00:13:46,834 --> 00:13:49,102 Interesting concept honour, isn't it? 217 00:13:49,203 --> 00:13:51,537 Like its cousin, valour. 218 00:13:51,605 --> 00:13:53,139 Honour has cousins? 219 00:13:53,206 --> 00:13:54,707 Oh, many cousins. 220 00:13:54,775 --> 00:13:57,175 Like Cardinal Sforza? 221 00:13:57,243 --> 00:14:01,713 And they've all led kings and armies to their doom. 222 00:14:01,814 --> 00:14:02,947 So why we should now 223 00:14:03,015 --> 00:14:04,682 make common cause with Milan? 224 00:14:04,750 --> 00:14:09,621 Because, when the French have left this fair paradise, 225 00:14:09,688 --> 00:14:12,190 the Milanese will still be with us. 226 00:14:12,258 --> 00:14:15,326 So? 227 00:14:15,394 --> 00:14:22,000 This league cannot beat the French... 228 00:14:23,202 --> 00:14:25,236 even in their weakened state. 229 00:14:25,304 --> 00:14:29,673 And I doubt the French can beat this league. 230 00:14:29,740 --> 00:14:34,977 So if the two armies batter each other to death, 231 00:14:35,045 --> 00:14:36,712 as the lawyers often say, 232 00:14:36,780 --> 00:14:38,781 cui bono? 233 00:14:38,848 --> 00:14:41,617 Who benefits? Mm. 234 00:14:41,684 --> 00:14:45,287 A weakened Milan, a weakened Venice, 235 00:14:45,388 --> 00:14:48,024 a weakened Mantua- 236 00:14:49,726 --> 00:14:53,096 has to be worth a weekend in Tuscany, surely? 237 00:14:53,164 --> 00:14:59,003 [chuckles] 238 00:14:59,070 --> 00:15:06,910 [bells ringing] 239 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,180 Stately. 240 00:15:16,588 --> 00:15:18,855 Where is he? 241 00:15:18,956 --> 00:15:21,758 He must be here somewhere. 242 00:15:22,759 --> 00:15:24,760 I hear you before I see you. 243 00:15:24,828 --> 00:15:29,766 [grunting] 244 00:15:29,833 --> 00:15:32,535 Yes? 245 00:15:32,603 --> 00:15:35,572 You line your scabbard with cotton. 246 00:15:41,445 --> 00:15:43,346 You want the French to hear you coming? 247 00:15:43,414 --> 00:15:45,015 Lose your spurs. All of you. 248 00:15:45,083 --> 00:15:46,483 And wear only soft leather. 249 00:15:46,551 --> 00:15:47,818 Understood? 250 00:15:47,886 --> 00:15:50,588 Condottieri! Come. 251 00:15:53,092 --> 00:15:55,494 When the scouts ride ahead of the French army, 252 00:15:55,595 --> 00:15:57,396 we'll be waiting for them. 253 00:15:59,066 --> 00:16:02,102 We have the light crossbow, 254 00:16:06,808 --> 00:16:08,408 the Spanish garrotte, 255 00:16:12,514 --> 00:16:14,748 the trident, 256 00:16:17,852 --> 00:16:19,519 the paso doble. 257 00:16:21,990 --> 00:16:23,224 Raven's beak. 258 00:16:23,325 --> 00:16:24,658 With weapons like these, 259 00:16:24,726 --> 00:16:26,860 we can reinvent combat. 260 00:16:26,928 --> 00:16:29,863 Now there is talk of a pitched battle. 261 00:16:29,964 --> 00:16:31,865 Of something called honour. 262 00:16:36,237 --> 00:16:38,405 Let us show them another way. 263 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:43,843 Should His Holiness not be fitted in armour? 264 00:16:45,412 --> 00:16:47,813 We fight the wars of God, not of man. 265 00:16:47,881 --> 00:16:49,649 Then why travel with the league? 266 00:16:49,716 --> 00:16:51,617 There will be war, surely. 267 00:16:51,685 --> 00:16:53,953 They would have our blessing. 268 00:16:56,123 --> 00:16:58,591 You could have given it by proxy. 269 00:16:58,659 --> 00:17:01,294 But the dead will have to be prayed over 270 00:17:01,361 --> 00:17:03,528 Mm. 271 00:17:03,596 --> 00:17:05,497 I know you, Holy Father, 272 00:17:10,236 --> 00:17:13,404 and know you always have many ends in view. 273 00:17:15,140 --> 00:17:17,375 Perhaps. 274 00:17:17,442 --> 00:17:20,344 If the armies of men will annihilate each other, 275 00:17:20,445 --> 00:17:22,446 what will be left? 276 00:17:22,546 --> 00:17:24,847 The army of God. 277 00:17:26,683 --> 00:17:29,152 I would beg your permission, then, 278 00:17:29,253 --> 00:17:31,020 in your absence, 279 00:17:31,088 --> 00:17:34,057 to investigate the office of public works even further. 280 00:17:34,158 --> 00:17:36,292 For more irregularities? 281 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,228 There are so many, Holy Father, 282 00:17:39,296 --> 00:17:40,963 in this Vatican of yours. 283 00:17:42,098 --> 00:17:43,899 Yes. 284 00:17:46,770 --> 00:17:52,308 [indistinct voices] 285 00:17:52,376 --> 00:17:53,944 [panting] 286 00:17:54,011 --> 00:17:56,313 The army's about 30 miles south, moving slowly. 287 00:17:56,381 --> 00:17:57,948 And the Gascon scouts? 288 00:17:58,016 --> 00:17:59,684 Only about ten miles, at the most. 289 00:17:59,751 --> 00:18:01,519 Checking the army's route. 290 00:18:01,587 --> 00:18:02,887 They ride hard. 291 00:18:02,955 --> 00:18:04,956 They will be hungry. 292 00:18:05,023 --> 00:18:06,590 Condottieri! Let's go. 293 00:18:06,658 --> 00:18:08,158 Up, up. 294 00:18:08,259 --> 00:18:09,993 The French are coming! 295 00:18:10,094 --> 00:18:11,495 They're coming! 296 00:18:11,562 --> 00:18:14,363 People! Make ready! 297 00:18:14,431 --> 00:18:16,698 They're coming! Hurry! 298 00:18:16,766 --> 00:18:18,800 Get the children! 299 00:18:18,868 --> 00:18:26,808 [indistinct shouting] 300 00:18:28,845 --> 00:18:30,713 Tuer tout le monde! 301 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:40,824 The voile libre. 302 00:18:40,892 --> 00:18:43,093 There's nobody here! 303 00:18:45,363 --> 00:18:46,730 A wedding party. 304 00:18:46,831 --> 00:18:48,731 Without a bride. 305 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:50,366 The party has moved on. 306 00:18:50,434 --> 00:18:52,501 No brides. No bridesmaids. 307 00:18:52,569 --> 00:18:54,738 No nuns. [laughter] 308 00:18:54,805 --> 00:18:57,808 They've heard about the size of your dick, Sherat. 309 00:18:57,909 --> 00:18:59,810 Let's eat. 310 00:18:59,878 --> 00:19:02,179 [laughter and chatter] 311 00:19:02,246 --> 00:19:03,914 -Girls! 312 00:19:04,015 --> 00:19:06,916 Give me some more! 313 00:19:10,188 --> 00:19:11,721 Drink it! 314 00:19:12,823 --> 00:19:14,558 Et tu, mon- 315 00:19:22,134 --> 00:19:23,901 Allez! 316 00:19:34,878 --> 00:19:36,379 On your feet! 317 00:19:39,149 --> 00:19:41,817 [shouting] 318 00:19:47,923 --> 00:19:49,724 French dog! 319 00:19:54,730 --> 00:19:56,563 Show some restraint, gentlemen. 320 00:19:56,631 --> 00:19:58,265 I want these men alive. 321 00:20:02,937 --> 00:20:04,838 With their colours. 322 00:20:05,974 --> 00:20:07,841 They have a tale to tell. 323 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,851 These children need an orphanage. 324 00:20:19,919 --> 00:20:21,253 They do indeed, 325 00:20:21,321 --> 00:20:23,188 but the nunneries that used to care for them 326 00:20:23,256 --> 00:20:25,424 are starved of funds. 327 00:20:25,492 --> 00:20:26,993 And the orphanage on Piazza Navona 328 00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:29,462 is now a cardinal's palace. 329 00:20:32,466 --> 00:20:33,867 Here once stood statue 330 00:20:33,968 --> 00:20:36,370 of the Goddess Sulis Minerva. 331 00:20:36,438 --> 00:20:39,307 And here flowed crystal spring water 332 00:20:39,374 --> 00:20:41,910 from the Alban Hills... 333 00:20:41,977 --> 00:20:44,379 Statues are easily restored. 334 00:20:44,447 --> 00:20:47,415 Water is not. 335 00:20:47,483 --> 00:20:52,587 So, I would use my wit-and yours- 336 00:20:52,654 --> 00:20:56,190 to outwit those who divert funds-and water- 337 00:20:56,258 --> 00:20:58,758 from poorhouses to palaces. 338 00:20:58,826 --> 00:21:01,761 Cardinals-in the curia. 339 00:21:01,829 --> 00:21:05,131 You are far too clever. 340 00:21:05,232 --> 00:21:06,699 It would be fun 341 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,970 to outwit a brace of cardinals. 342 00:21:10,071 --> 00:21:11,672 More than fun. 343 00:21:11,773 --> 00:21:14,475 It could save lives. 344 00:21:14,543 --> 00:21:17,612 And there is one more brain I would engage in our cause. 345 00:21:17,713 --> 00:21:19,280 Your mother's. 346 00:21:19,348 --> 00:21:21,483 My mother? But she- 347 00:21:21,551 --> 00:21:22,785 You must admit, 348 00:21:22,852 --> 00:21:26,188 three minds will be better than two. 349 00:21:26,256 --> 00:21:29,858 And your mother and I are far beyond such enmities. 350 00:21:30,927 --> 00:21:32,427 [chuckles] 351 00:21:38,768 --> 00:21:40,135 Whose idea was this? 352 00:21:40,236 --> 00:21:41,870 Mine. 353 00:21:41,971 --> 00:21:43,238 And you concurred? 354 00:21:43,305 --> 00:21:44,705 We would use your wit, Mother. 355 00:21:44,773 --> 00:21:45,873 And your wisdom. 356 00:21:45,974 --> 00:21:48,676 I find myself lacking in both. 357 00:21:48,744 --> 00:21:51,646 We have plans for the Roman poor. 358 00:21:51,714 --> 00:21:54,248 We've already restored one bathhouse. 359 00:21:54,316 --> 00:21:56,718 And the Holy Father 360 00:21:56,786 --> 00:21:57,986 has given me full authority to- 361 00:21:58,054 --> 00:22:00,121 Your lover. 362 00:22:00,188 --> 00:22:03,658 And yours. 363 00:22:03,726 --> 00:22:06,561 Given you full authority for what? 364 00:22:06,629 --> 00:22:09,198 To comb through the curatorial accounts. 365 00:22:09,265 --> 00:22:13,503 He knows a lot about combing through accounts. 366 00:22:13,570 --> 00:22:16,673 And if you would catch a cardinal or two, 367 00:22:16,740 --> 00:22:20,443 you do well to ask one who was a courtesan. 368 00:22:21,679 --> 00:22:26,182 However distasteful this may sound to you, my daughter, 369 00:22:26,283 --> 00:22:31,187 and to you, la bella Farnese, 370 00:22:31,254 --> 00:22:33,723 you will have to acquaint yourselves 371 00:22:33,824 --> 00:22:36,625 with the brothels of Rome. 372 00:23:02,185 --> 00:23:03,518 [spits] 373 00:23:09,092 --> 00:23:12,193 You know these colours? 374 00:23:14,497 --> 00:23:17,098 [shouts] Do you know these colours! 375 00:23:17,166 --> 00:23:20,535 They are the colours of our regiment. 376 00:23:20,602 --> 00:23:22,236 Good answer. 377 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,342 You know where this was found? 378 00:23:30,679 --> 00:23:31,946 [crying] 379 00:23:32,014 --> 00:23:35,817 It was found on the site of a massacre. 380 00:23:35,885 --> 00:23:39,722 I cannot... speak... my lord. 381 00:23:43,460 --> 00:23:45,862 [rapid breathing] 382 00:23:45,930 --> 00:23:50,533 And these ears cannot hear. 383 00:23:50,601 --> 00:23:53,002 You collect them as trophies? 384 00:23:58,175 --> 00:24:01,243 A convent would have provided quite a harvest, 385 00:24:01,311 --> 00:24:04,213 would it not? [whimpering] 386 00:24:04,314 --> 00:24:07,016 St. Cecilia's. 387 00:24:07,083 --> 00:24:08,718 Who was there? 388 00:24:08,785 --> 00:24:10,920 I know not, my lord. 389 00:24:10,988 --> 00:24:12,923 There are many in our regiment. 390 00:24:13,024 --> 00:24:14,825 If I am to die, my lord, 391 00:24:14,926 --> 00:24:17,127 I would prefer to die quickly. 392 00:24:17,228 --> 00:24:20,097 What? Who speaks of dying? 393 00:24:20,198 --> 00:24:21,766 My associate is a master! 394 00:24:21,833 --> 00:24:23,934 He can keep you alive for weeks! 395 00:24:26,037 --> 00:24:30,106 In a universe of pain. 396 00:24:30,174 --> 00:24:33,476 But the truth might yet set you free. 397 00:24:33,544 --> 00:24:36,379 The convent! Who was there? 398 00:24:38,749 --> 00:24:41,483 Who partook? 399 00:24:43,353 --> 00:24:44,953 Nothing? 400 00:24:45,054 --> 00:24:46,722 Show us, Micheletto. 401 00:24:46,789 --> 00:24:48,657 Your expertise. 402 00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:54,364 [whimpering] 403 00:24:54,432 --> 00:24:55,932 He was there! 404 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,868 You lying bastard, 405 00:24:59,704 --> 00:25:02,572 It was your idea! 406 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,910 He said there was sport to be had. 407 00:25:05,978 --> 00:25:09,847 In a place that had your own protection. 408 00:25:09,948 --> 00:25:11,849 What? 409 00:25:11,917 --> 00:25:14,118 And who told him that? 410 00:25:16,689 --> 00:25:17,755 More. 411 00:25:17,857 --> 00:25:19,124 [whimpering] 412 00:25:19,225 --> 00:25:20,758 Giovanni! 413 00:25:22,428 --> 00:25:24,329 The Lord Sforza! 414 00:25:24,397 --> 00:25:26,331 [crying] 415 00:25:29,101 --> 00:25:31,036 So I must punish him then. 416 00:25:37,044 --> 00:25:38,778 My associate may yet prove merciful. 417 00:25:38,846 --> 00:25:40,580 He treasures information. 418 00:25:40,648 --> 00:25:43,416 Do you not Micheletto? 419 00:25:43,484 --> 00:25:46,586 If it proves true, Your Eminence, yes. 420 00:25:46,654 --> 00:25:48,521 The truth then- 421 00:25:48,589 --> 00:25:53,526 on troop movements, booty, cannon- 422 00:25:53,594 --> 00:25:55,861 may yet set you free. 423 00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:22,588 Would you keep secrets from us? 424 00:26:22,656 --> 00:26:24,490 Why do you ask? 425 00:26:24,558 --> 00:26:26,693 We have heard rumours. 426 00:26:26,761 --> 00:26:28,995 Of skirmishes at night. 427 00:26:29,097 --> 00:26:30,330 Warfare. 428 00:26:30,431 --> 00:26:32,400 I would call it vengeance, Father. 429 00:26:32,468 --> 00:26:33,735 Not warfare. 430 00:26:33,802 --> 00:26:36,271 You are a cleric, not a soldier. 431 00:26:36,372 --> 00:26:37,606 Then, yes. 432 00:26:37,707 --> 00:26:39,775 I have a secret. 433 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,247 The whole of Rome is whispering. 434 00:26:47,251 --> 00:26:51,153 Of our dark son. 435 00:26:51,221 --> 00:26:55,523 So let us instruct you in the art of vengeance. 436 00:26:55,591 --> 00:26:57,092 Do I need lessons? 437 00:26:57,193 --> 00:26:59,627 Perhaps. 438 00:26:59,728 --> 00:27:04,799 Vengeance should never be seen as that. 439 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,869 It should always be unexpected. 440 00:27:07,937 --> 00:27:10,372 And it should rarely be public. 441 00:27:10,473 --> 00:27:12,641 You learnt this from the Lord? 442 00:27:12,709 --> 00:27:16,846 We know little of war, but much of vengeance. 443 00:27:16,913 --> 00:27:18,447 And the one salient point is this: 444 00:27:18,515 --> 00:27:20,683 vengeance is patient. 445 00:27:20,751 --> 00:27:23,620 It can wait a lifetime if necessary. 446 00:27:23,721 --> 00:27:26,623 Because it never dies. 447 00:27:26,690 --> 00:27:28,525 If you care to ride north with us, 448 00:27:28,592 --> 00:27:29,926 you may see what we mean. 449 00:27:32,063 --> 00:27:33,463 So who will maintain the house of God 450 00:27:33,531 --> 00:27:34,797 in our absence? 451 00:27:34,865 --> 00:27:36,866 The vice chancellor, perhaps? 452 00:27:36,934 --> 00:27:40,369 No, Cardinal Sforza must ride with us. 453 00:27:41,638 --> 00:27:42,904 You mistrust him that much? 454 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,809 Our distrust of the vice chancellor 455 00:27:47,911 --> 00:27:49,344 is bottomless. 456 00:27:51,348 --> 00:27:54,284 As of the entire curia. 457 00:27:54,351 --> 00:27:56,253 Which is why we thought we would leave them 458 00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,725 in the safe hands of that one blessed person 459 00:28:00,826 --> 00:28:03,160 in whom we can utterly, 460 00:28:03,228 --> 00:28:05,630 utterly place our trust. 461 00:28:16,541 --> 00:28:18,843 [chuckling] 462 00:28:29,821 --> 00:28:32,290 Show me your hands, Cesare. 463 00:28:36,062 --> 00:28:37,897 Is it true what I've heard? 464 00:28:37,965 --> 00:28:41,201 That they are stained with blood? 465 00:28:41,268 --> 00:28:43,503 Must I confess to you? [kisses] 466 00:28:44,772 --> 00:28:46,006 No. 467 00:28:48,442 --> 00:28:52,278 But we never before had secrets between us. 468 00:28:52,345 --> 00:28:55,848 Some things are better left unsaid. 469 00:28:55,916 --> 00:28:58,284 So I must divine then... 470 00:28:58,351 --> 00:29:00,986 the dark cloud on my brother's soul. 471 00:29:01,054 --> 00:29:03,122 Are you a shepherd of souls now? 472 00:29:04,724 --> 00:29:07,759 And I see before me a lost sheep. 473 00:29:08,995 --> 00:29:11,730 Utterly lost, my love. 474 00:29:11,797 --> 00:29:15,667 Then by hook or by crook, 475 00:29:15,768 --> 00:29:17,202 I shall save you. 476 00:29:19,906 --> 00:29:21,673 You may kiss my ring. 477 00:29:21,740 --> 00:29:25,877 [murmuring] 478 00:29:34,019 --> 00:29:38,022 You may sit, cardinals. 479 00:29:38,090 --> 00:29:40,058 May I sit too, Sister? 480 00:29:40,126 --> 00:29:41,860 Indeed, Cardinal Borgia. 481 00:29:43,362 --> 00:29:45,096 Forgive our haste, your Eminences 482 00:29:45,164 --> 00:29:46,965 but our preparations are endless. 483 00:29:47,066 --> 00:29:48,333 You will have heard; 484 00:29:48,401 --> 00:29:49,767 we have been called to the north 485 00:29:49,835 --> 00:29:53,638 where the dogs of war are once again barking. 486 00:29:53,706 --> 00:29:57,142 We must take the vice chancellor 487 00:29:57,209 --> 00:30:01,346 and Cardinal Borgia with us. 488 00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:04,216 And your prayers would be welcome. 489 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,154 We have signed a bull, 490 00:30:09,222 --> 00:30:12,958 leaving our dear daughter in, 491 00:30:13,059 --> 00:30:16,327 so to speak, loco parentis. 492 00:30:16,429 --> 00:30:19,330 Are there any questions? 493 00:30:19,431 --> 00:30:20,898 Cardinal Versucci? 494 00:30:20,966 --> 00:30:22,633 Can a woman, Your Holiness, 495 00:30:22,701 --> 00:30:25,135 occupy the chair of St. Peter? 496 00:30:25,203 --> 00:30:28,872 Well, plainly, one does. 497 00:30:28,973 --> 00:30:31,074 Pax nobiscum. 498 00:30:31,141 --> 00:30:33,509 Dominus nobiscum. 499 00:30:45,087 --> 00:30:51,928 [crying] 500 00:30:51,995 --> 00:30:55,699 He is ready to impart information, Eminence. 501 00:30:55,766 --> 00:30:57,768 Only to you. 502 00:30:57,836 --> 00:30:59,636 Why me? 503 00:30:59,704 --> 00:31:01,972 Because I know what his pleasures are. 504 00:31:06,111 --> 00:31:09,414 Tell me. 505 00:31:09,481 --> 00:31:12,250 The powder... 506 00:31:12,318 --> 00:31:14,919 for the king's cannon. 507 00:31:14,987 --> 00:31:16,921 Yes. Tell me. 508 00:31:16,989 --> 00:31:20,090 Travels in the kitchen wagons 509 00:31:20,158 --> 00:31:25,262 disguised as barrels of food. 510 00:31:25,330 --> 00:31:27,898 And without that powder, 511 00:31:27,999 --> 00:31:30,968 their cannon are useless. 512 00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:34,806 As am I, Your Eminence. 513 00:31:47,154 --> 00:31:49,055 Release him. 514 00:31:52,459 --> 00:31:55,195 [door opens] 515 00:31:55,263 --> 00:31:56,830 [removes blade] 516 00:32:23,357 --> 00:32:25,926 [gasps] 517 00:32:30,932 --> 00:32:37,471 [exhales] 518 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,594 Bless us, Your Holiness! 519 00:33:00,662 --> 00:33:01,995 Take pity, Your Holiness! 520 00:33:02,063 --> 00:33:05,299 May God protect you, Holy Father! 521 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:06,934 Safe journey! 522 00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:10,937 In nomini Patris, et Filli et Spiritus Sancti. 523 00:33:15,610 --> 00:33:17,244 Have you heard? 524 00:33:17,312 --> 00:33:20,580 He's left his daughter in the chair of St. Peter's. 525 00:33:20,648 --> 00:33:22,416 We must travel to Florence then. 526 00:33:22,484 --> 00:33:24,218 Talk to our brother Savanarola. 527 00:33:24,285 --> 00:33:26,052 Surely this man cannot be allowed to live. 528 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,587 Blessings, Your Holiness! 529 00:33:32,693 --> 00:33:39,765 [indistinct chatter] 530 00:33:41,801 --> 00:33:45,003 We would give the consistory a lesson... 531 00:33:50,678 --> 00:33:51,678 ...in cookery. 532 00:33:51,779 --> 00:33:53,680 [laughter] 533 00:33:53,781 --> 00:33:56,516 Or is that husbandry? 534 00:33:59,888 --> 00:34:02,924 Baking a cake. 535 00:34:02,992 --> 00:34:05,760 [murmuring] 536 00:34:05,828 --> 00:34:10,231 Pour the flour into a sieve. 537 00:34:10,299 --> 00:34:14,235 Shake, gently. 538 00:34:14,336 --> 00:34:19,507 The good flour emerges. 539 00:34:19,608 --> 00:34:22,776 The chaff remains. 540 00:34:24,045 --> 00:34:26,413 Am I correct, Cardinal Versucci? 541 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,516 I know little of cookery, my lady. 542 00:34:29,617 --> 00:34:31,785 But you eat cake, surely? 543 00:34:31,853 --> 00:34:33,321 Indeed. 544 00:34:34,857 --> 00:34:37,192 I would hazard that the entire consistory 545 00:34:37,260 --> 00:34:43,433 has been known at times to indulge in its sweet tooth. 546 00:34:43,534 --> 00:34:47,236 To eat said cake. 547 00:34:47,304 --> 00:34:49,605 Is there perhaps a metaphor here? 548 00:34:53,143 --> 00:34:55,344 That the curia, 549 00:34:55,412 --> 00:34:58,247 its various offices, devoted to public works, 550 00:34:58,348 --> 00:35:01,317 acts like a sieve. 551 00:35:01,385 --> 00:35:04,086 The good flour emerges. 552 00:35:04,188 --> 00:35:05,988 And whats left? 553 00:35:06,089 --> 00:35:09,992 For the poor, the needy? 554 00:35:10,093 --> 00:35:11,260 The chaff. 555 00:35:11,328 --> 00:35:13,162 [murmuring] 556 00:35:13,230 --> 00:35:18,634 And what element do we lack to make this cake? 557 00:35:21,571 --> 00:35:23,072 Ahh! 558 00:35:23,173 --> 00:35:26,609 [murmuring] 559 00:35:26,677 --> 00:35:28,444 Water. 560 00:35:31,915 --> 00:35:33,616 [children squealing] 561 00:35:33,717 --> 00:35:39,889 [laughing, shouting] 562 00:35:39,891 --> 00:35:47,229 [laughing, shouting] 563 00:35:57,607 --> 00:36:02,010 [soldier shouting] 564 00:36:02,078 --> 00:36:03,545 Soldiers approaching! 565 00:36:03,613 --> 00:36:05,347 Attention! 566 00:36:08,351 --> 00:36:09,818 Father. 567 00:36:12,689 --> 00:36:14,924 Why have we stopped? 568 00:36:20,164 --> 00:36:21,464 The King of France, Your Holiness, 569 00:36:21,565 --> 00:36:23,099 has requested an audience. 570 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,901 He awaits your presence- alone- 571 00:36:25,002 --> 00:36:27,003 in a church nearby. 572 00:36:41,417 --> 00:36:44,652 We are ill, Your Holiness. 573 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:48,757 This battle may well be our last. 574 00:36:48,825 --> 00:36:51,927 Which is why we have requested 575 00:36:52,028 --> 00:36:54,331 a private audience. 576 00:36:54,398 --> 00:36:57,200 Not for your confession? 577 00:36:59,537 --> 00:37:02,940 My sins are many, Your Holiness. 578 00:37:03,041 --> 00:37:05,743 And they are all bloody ones. 579 00:37:05,811 --> 00:37:08,646 Perhaps even the Pope of Rome 580 00:37:08,747 --> 00:37:11,849 cannot forgive them. 581 00:37:11,917 --> 00:37:15,220 So why have you requested our presence here? 582 00:37:15,321 --> 00:37:18,823 To use your diplomatic skills 583 00:37:18,890 --> 00:37:21,024 to spare us this battle. 584 00:37:23,528 --> 00:37:25,128 Well, perhaps if you would 585 00:37:25,196 --> 00:37:28,265 surrender the booty you have pillaged 586 00:37:28,332 --> 00:37:32,102 to our Holy Mother Church, 587 00:37:32,170 --> 00:37:36,141 we might do something. 588 00:37:36,208 --> 00:37:37,776 With respect, Your Holiness, 589 00:37:37,877 --> 00:37:41,012 you have fooled me once. 590 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,748 For a man of God, 591 00:37:42,815 --> 00:37:48,387 yours was a most ungodly stratagem. 592 00:37:49,756 --> 00:37:53,926 So, why our presence? 593 00:37:55,128 --> 00:37:58,597 If they are fool enough to join battle with me, 594 00:37:58,665 --> 00:38:01,767 I will destroy them, utterly. 595 00:38:01,835 --> 00:38:03,202 I will be pitiless. 596 00:38:03,270 --> 00:38:04,904 I know no other way. 597 00:38:04,972 --> 00:38:08,041 My cannon will annihilate their armies! 598 00:38:08,108 --> 00:38:10,910 The dead will be numberless! 599 00:38:10,978 --> 00:38:13,847 I will drag you in chains to Avignon 600 00:38:13,915 --> 00:38:18,485 and see you end your days in ignominy! 601 00:38:18,553 --> 00:38:20,854 All this before I die! 602 00:38:20,922 --> 00:38:23,924 Are you listening, Holy Father? 603 00:38:23,992 --> 00:38:28,329 [distant thunder] 604 00:38:30,632 --> 00:38:34,067 We hear you. 605 00:38:34,135 --> 00:38:38,071 We will convey your words to the league forces. 606 00:38:40,876 --> 00:38:44,411 [rain falling] Ah, listen. 607 00:38:44,479 --> 00:38:48,148 Is that the sound of rain? 608 00:38:48,249 --> 00:38:51,485 Can even the King of France 609 00:38:51,552 --> 00:38:55,121 light his cannon in the rain? 610 00:38:55,189 --> 00:38:56,622 You think we don't know 611 00:38:56,690 --> 00:38:59,258 how to keep powder dry? 612 00:39:00,694 --> 00:39:04,597 Do you think the Lord God doesn't know how to make rain? 613 00:39:11,973 --> 00:39:13,674 The French have deployed their cannon here 614 00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:15,042 along this ridge. 615 00:39:15,110 --> 00:39:16,443 We, however, have the advantage 616 00:39:16,511 --> 00:39:18,679 of this higher ridge here. 617 00:39:18,747 --> 00:39:20,715 From which we shall attack. 618 00:39:22,885 --> 00:39:23,952 All right, man. 619 00:39:24,020 --> 00:39:25,420 Put it with the other - 620 00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:26,454 The rain has stopped. 621 00:39:26,555 --> 00:39:27,889 All off the wagon! 622 00:39:27,956 --> 00:39:29,924 Beg pardon, Your Holiness? 623 00:39:29,992 --> 00:39:32,427 Would not rain help your cause? 624 00:39:32,494 --> 00:39:34,863 Armies can fight in the rain. 625 00:39:34,931 --> 00:39:37,499 But would it not hinder their cannon? 626 00:39:37,566 --> 00:39:39,200 Rain is not a friend to gunpowder. 627 00:39:39,268 --> 00:39:42,170 We do not fear their cannon, Holy Father. No? 628 00:39:42,237 --> 00:39:44,138 Perhaps you should. 629 00:39:44,206 --> 00:39:46,908 The King of France requested an audience. 630 00:39:46,975 --> 00:39:48,543 He asks to be let free 631 00:39:48,644 --> 00:39:50,746 to continue his march home. 632 00:39:50,814 --> 00:39:54,150 But if forced to fight, he promises carnage 633 00:39:54,218 --> 00:39:56,920 the like of which none of us has yet seen. 634 00:39:56,988 --> 00:40:00,157 We are here to spill blood, Your Holiness. 635 00:40:00,225 --> 00:40:04,329 Yours? Or theirs? 636 00:40:04,396 --> 00:40:07,465 I would beg the Holy Father 637 00:40:07,533 --> 00:40:10,001 to give these troops his blessing 638 00:40:10,069 --> 00:40:12,137 who may well die tomorrow. 639 00:40:12,205 --> 00:40:15,507 And to hear what may well be my last confession. 640 00:40:15,575 --> 00:40:20,079 And to retire to my castle before the battle commences, 641 00:40:20,146 --> 00:40:23,615 lest any harm come to his sacred person. 642 00:40:25,585 --> 00:40:27,719 I have bloodied my hands in battle. 643 00:40:27,820 --> 00:40:29,121 I have killed; 644 00:40:29,189 --> 00:40:31,657 I have sent countless men to their doom. 645 00:40:31,725 --> 00:40:34,194 And I pray that God sees the justice of our cause 646 00:40:34,261 --> 00:40:35,762 and forgives me for our sins. 647 00:40:35,830 --> 00:40:39,033 The Church acknowledges some wars are just. 648 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:41,535 Does your conscience tell you that this is one such? 649 00:40:41,603 --> 00:40:43,070 It does, Your Holiness. 650 00:40:43,138 --> 00:40:45,539 It will restore the valour of Italian arms. 651 00:40:45,607 --> 00:40:47,041 The honour of our soldiery. 652 00:40:47,109 --> 00:40:50,077 Honour and valour alone cannot justify warfare. 653 00:40:50,145 --> 00:40:52,713 But I would plead just cause, Your Holiness. 654 00:40:52,781 --> 00:40:54,481 The weight of booty they carry with them 655 00:40:54,549 --> 00:40:56,884 gives ample evidence of their greed and perfidy. 656 00:40:56,952 --> 00:40:59,487 For this reason alone, I would seek your blessing. 657 00:40:59,588 --> 00:41:01,022 And your forgiveness. 658 00:41:02,858 --> 00:41:05,761 Do you pledge your arms to the service of God, 659 00:41:05,828 --> 00:41:07,196 and his vicar on earth? 660 00:41:07,297 --> 00:41:08,630 I do, Your Holiness. 661 00:41:08,698 --> 00:41:10,566 And do you promise to fight in His name 662 00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:11,668 and His name alone? 663 00:41:11,735 --> 00:41:13,203 I do, Your Holiness. 664 00:41:13,270 --> 00:41:17,408 And do you pledge the spoils of battle in its entirety 665 00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:19,476 to His Holy Mother Church? 666 00:41:23,349 --> 00:41:26,952 God's blessing comes with a price. 667 00:41:29,388 --> 00:41:31,223 I-do, Your Holiness. 668 00:41:32,425 --> 00:41:35,292 Then you have our blessing. 669 00:41:35,393 --> 00:41:39,396 Attention! 670 00:41:40,398 --> 00:41:45,101 In nomineatris et Filli et Spiritus Sancti. 671 00:41:45,169 --> 00:41:47,604 Amen. 672 00:41:47,671 --> 00:41:53,042 In nomine Patris et Filli et Spiritus Sancti. 673 00:41:53,143 --> 00:41:55,244 Amen. 674 00:41:55,312 --> 00:42:01,217 In nomine Patris et Filli et Spiritus Sancti. 675 00:42:01,285 --> 00:42:04,287 Amen. 676 00:42:04,354 --> 00:42:09,392 In nomine Patris et Filli et Spiritus Sancti. 677 00:42:25,744 --> 00:42:27,878 Your Holiness. Duches. 678 00:42:35,186 --> 00:42:39,755 So, life has treated you well. 679 00:42:39,823 --> 00:42:42,758 When you gave me your blessing, 680 00:42:42,826 --> 00:42:44,560 I had not yet et my husband. 681 00:42:44,627 --> 00:42:45,961 No. 682 00:42:46,029 --> 00:42:47,763 And now is it we who are to be blessed 683 00:42:47,831 --> 00:42:50,032 with your hospitality. 684 00:42:50,100 --> 00:42:52,135 So it would seem, Your Holiness. 685 00:42:55,941 --> 00:43:00,345 I have not yet forgotten those times. 686 00:43:03,082 --> 00:43:08,154 Some memories endure then? 687 00:43:08,255 --> 00:43:11,691 So it would seem. 688 00:43:13,427 --> 00:43:15,995 We thank God for His blessings upon this table, 689 00:43:16,063 --> 00:43:18,231 and in this household. 690 00:43:18,299 --> 00:43:19,799 We ask Him 691 00:43:19,867 --> 00:43:23,636 to watch over the Lord Gonzaga, and his League, 692 00:43:23,704 --> 00:43:26,606 and we pray for the benediction of rain 693 00:43:26,707 --> 00:43:30,042 upon the field of battle tomorrow. 694 00:43:30,110 --> 00:43:31,444 Amen. 695 00:43:36,183 --> 00:43:38,885 Is my husband's survival dependent on rain? 696 00:43:38,986 --> 00:43:41,554 And on valour too. 697 00:43:41,655 --> 00:43:42,822 Your husband, madame, 698 00:43:42,890 --> 00:43:45,692 is a condottieri of the old school. 699 00:43:45,759 --> 00:43:47,693 He believes warfare to be an art. 700 00:43:47,761 --> 00:43:49,528 Cannon a vulgarity. 701 00:43:51,331 --> 00:43:53,699 Let us hope it's not a tragic art. 702 00:43:53,767 --> 00:43:55,234 So we pray then for a downpour 703 00:43:55,302 --> 00:43:57,002 to disarm their cannon. 704 00:44:22,731 --> 00:44:24,732 [indistinct praying] 705 00:44:28,904 --> 00:44:30,939 Micheletto. Your Eminence. 706 00:44:31,007 --> 00:44:32,640 Condottieri! Let's ride! 707 00:44:35,243 --> 00:44:36,911 Yah! Yah! 708 00:44:40,983 --> 00:44:42,550 [mouthing prayer] 709 00:44:45,621 --> 00:44:47,889 Forgive me, Holy Father. 710 00:44:47,956 --> 00:44:49,924 You are at prayer. 711 00:44:52,394 --> 00:44:54,762 No, you cannot. 712 00:44:54,864 --> 00:44:56,731 I am afraid I must. 713 00:44:59,801 --> 00:45:04,704 But on... on a night such as this... 714 00:45:04,772 --> 00:45:07,574 I have unfinished business with the Holy Father. 715 00:45:07,641 --> 00:45:09,842 You now have a husband. 716 00:45:09,910 --> 00:45:11,811 And you have a mistress. 717 00:45:11,879 --> 00:45:13,846 But your husband fights tomorrow. 718 00:45:13,914 --> 00:45:16,281 No... 719 00:45:18,918 --> 00:45:20,818 So let me pray with you. 720 00:45:20,886 --> 00:45:22,453 For rain. 721 00:45:24,189 --> 00:45:26,357 [indistinct shouts] 722 00:45:26,458 --> 00:45:32,197 [laughter, chatter throughout] 723 00:45:48,317 --> 00:45:50,051 [whistles] 724 00:45:50,119 --> 00:45:51,319 Ahh! 725 00:45:51,386 --> 00:45:53,587 Ah! 726 00:46:02,096 --> 00:46:03,763 [grunts] 727 00:46:07,534 --> 00:46:09,402 [grunts] 728 00:46:35,262 --> 00:46:44,871 [loud hissing] 729 00:46:44,972 --> 00:46:46,873 [loud explosion] 730 00:46:46,974 --> 00:47:00,120 [indistinct shouts] 731 00:47:00,122 --> 00:47:07,428 [indistinct shouts] 732 00:47:09,097 --> 00:47:11,866 [distant explosions] 733 00:47:11,933 --> 00:47:15,336 What was that sound? 734 00:47:15,404 --> 00:47:19,607 Thunder. 735 00:47:19,708 --> 00:47:23,077 And after thunder comes... 736 00:47:23,178 --> 00:47:24,946 The deluge. 737 00:47:25,014 --> 00:47:27,516 The deluge... [laughs] 738 00:47:30,086 --> 00:47:35,625 [shouting] 739 00:47:49,674 --> 00:47:52,208 Listen. 740 00:47:52,276 --> 00:47:54,710 Were your prayers answered? 741 00:47:54,778 --> 00:47:57,680 No, no, no. Listen. 742 00:47:57,747 --> 00:47:59,848 For what? 743 00:47:59,916 --> 00:48:03,085 There is no sound of French cannon. 744 00:48:04,687 --> 00:48:07,322 [loud rainfall] Thank you, God! Thank you! 745 00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:22,002 Holy Father. Bless you, my sons. 746 00:48:36,483 --> 00:48:37,916 So many dead! 747 00:48:40,787 --> 00:48:42,988 So much glory. 748 00:48:48,761 --> 00:48:49,828 Right man. 749 00:48:49,896 --> 00:48:51,163 Pull it out. 750 00:48:51,231 --> 00:48:52,831 Ah! Ooh. 751 00:48:56,369 --> 00:48:58,537 These wounds, Your Holiness, 752 00:48:58,604 --> 00:49:00,906 are proof that valour lives still. 753 00:49:00,974 --> 00:49:02,875 Ah, indeed. 754 00:49:02,942 --> 00:49:04,777 And honour, no doubt. It was a battle 755 00:49:04,844 --> 00:49:07,946 from the pages of Ariosto. 756 00:49:08,014 --> 00:49:11,450 And God answered our prayers with a voice of thunder. 757 00:49:13,286 --> 00:49:15,454 There were explosions last night, 758 00:49:15,521 --> 00:49:17,456 Holy Father, but no thunder. 759 00:49:17,524 --> 00:49:19,992 Well, I heard thunder, 760 00:49:20,059 --> 00:49:21,260 followed by torrential rain, 761 00:49:21,327 --> 00:49:23,529 which drowned their cannon. 762 00:49:23,596 --> 00:49:26,464 The French munitions were destroyed. 763 00:49:26,565 --> 00:49:27,999 But not by thunder. 764 00:49:29,635 --> 00:49:32,303 By some brave Roman souls. 765 00:49:32,371 --> 00:49:34,005 You mean? 766 00:49:34,106 --> 00:49:35,373 I mean... 767 00:49:36,942 --> 00:49:40,912 I am now in the eternal debt of Rome. 768 00:49:40,979 --> 00:49:44,915 And I pledge all booty from this field of battle 769 00:49:45,017 --> 00:49:47,652 to our Holy Mother Church. 770 00:49:49,021 --> 00:49:53,926 [distant shouting] 771 00:49:55,095 --> 00:49:58,832 [horse hooves] 772 00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:01,301 Your salts of mercury, Highness? 773 00:50:02,704 --> 00:50:04,839 And the rain? 774 00:50:04,907 --> 00:50:07,675 It has finally stopped, Highness. 775 00:50:07,742 --> 00:50:09,410 Try to rest. 776 00:50:09,511 --> 00:50:11,479 Have you a potion there 777 00:50:11,547 --> 00:50:15,183 that would give me eternal rest? 778 00:50:16,818 --> 00:50:19,587 Half of my army is dead 779 00:50:19,654 --> 00:50:22,824 and cries out for me to join them. 780 00:50:31,667 --> 00:50:33,234 [loud scream] 781 00:50:41,744 --> 00:50:44,279 So Your Holiness, 782 00:50:44,346 --> 00:50:46,247 as you wished it so did it come to pass. 783 00:50:46,315 --> 00:50:48,048 Indeed. The question is... 784 00:50:48,149 --> 00:50:51,452 how exactly did it come to pass? 785 00:50:51,519 --> 00:50:54,921 Your meaning, Holy Father? 786 00:50:54,989 --> 00:50:57,057 Do you have anything to confess to me Cesare 787 00:50:57,158 --> 00:50:59,392 about this past night? 788 00:50:59,460 --> 00:51:02,062 No, Holy Father. 789 00:51:02,163 --> 00:51:04,698 My night was as satisfactory 790 00:51:04,799 --> 00:51:07,967 as I'm sure was yours. 791 00:51:08,035 --> 00:51:12,238 I slept the sleep of the good and the just... 792 00:51:13,540 --> 00:51:16,108 ...as I hope you did, Holy Father. 793 00:51:16,133 --> 00:51:20,133 == sync, corrected by elderman == 9999 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net