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Cesare Borgia takes the beautiful Ursula Bornadeo as his mistress and vows to revenge himself on her husband who has insulted his mother.

Cesare Borgia takes an interest in the beautiful but married Ursula Bornadeo. Her husband had insulted him and his mother at Lucrezia's wedding and Cesare has every intention of seeking satisfaction. Lucrezia suffers at the hands of her brutish husband but takes an interest in a young stable boy, Paulo, a gentle lad who soon plots with her to get rid of his master. Cardinal Della Rovere visits the Duke of Milan to seek safe passage for an invading French army. The Pope dispatches his son to to speak to the Medicis about any plans they may have made with Della Rovere. The Pope entertains offers of marriage for his son Juan who is not keen with what is on offer. Another political wedding may be required.—garykmcd

Angelic stable boy Paolo becomes the confidant of Lucrezia, who experiences the marital bed as counted torture thrusts. Paolo even sabotages the master's saddle, provoking an incapacitating fall. The pope charges cardinal Ascanio Sforza with talking his relative, the Sforza duke Ludovico of Milan, out of passively supporting a French invasion. Alexndar further threatens the Holy See could otherwise support his cousin Gian Galaezzo's claim to the Lombardy throne, but the rival is simply poisoned in a glutinous last dinner. To assure Florentine resistance to the French, cardinal Cesare promises chief minister Macchiavelli the inquisition will rid its bankers of preaching monk Savonarola. Key to the Italian defense is large realm Napels, so the pope considers marrying off a junior son. Cesare meanwhile finds baron Bonadeo's foxy wife Ursula eager to start a discrete affair with him.—KGF Vissers