Juan returns to Rome trying to spin his combat injury as proof of his valor, but Cesare exposes his brother's ignoble behavior; Lucrezia takes a lover in her intended husband's younger brother; Della Rovere has recruited an angel-faced young friar as his suicide assassin, and the young man advances their agenda with a bold move against the Pope's food taster.
Keywords: 15th-century , court-intrigue , european-history , florence-italy , historical , historical-drama , italian-history , italian-renaissance , religion , renaissance , rome-italy , pope