Alexander VI refuses to allow a Catholic burial for Paolo, despite his doubts about the stable boy’s suicide, causing Lucrezia to embark on a hunger strike that threatens the life of her infant son; the French army heads back to Rome, allied with Sforza; Della Rovere slips back into the city unnoticed to launch a plot against the Pope’s life.
Keywords: 15th-century , court-intrigue , european-history , florence-italy , historical , historical-drama , italian-history , italian-renaissance , religion , renaissance , rome-italy , pope