- Juan returns from Spain with gifts after contracting a STD. He lays siege to Forli and takes Cathrina Sforza's son hostage.
- Juan returns from Spain with gifts: a panther from the New World for Lucrezia, which promptly bites her and something new for his father, a box of cigars. Juan is married but his pregnant wife has stayed behind in Spain. The Pope is pleased with the way his son's life has taken shape. Juan is suffering from syphilis however and seeks treatment from a doctor. The Pope puts Juan in command of the Papal army and sends him to lay siege to Forli Castle with authority to eliminate Catherina Sforza if she refuse to come to Rome. At Forli, Juan makes it clear what lies in store for Catherina should she refuse the Papal edict. Under a white flag, Juan takes her 15 year-old son hostage and tortures the boy in front of her. Ludovico Sforza of Milan comes to her assistance and surprises Juan's troops on the battlefield. Cesare is in Florence where Brother Savonarola is preaching in defiance of the Papal order. His young acolytes are going house to house collecting anything of value that can be burned in the public square. Lucrezia meanwhile agrees to meet the young Duke of Genoa but is more interested in his younger brother.—garykmcd
- Having married well and sired an heir in Spain, Juan returns with conquistador Hernando De Caballos, his new military deputy, and gifts from the New World, such as cigars for his astonished papal father, whom he tells to have sworn of alcohol for clarity of mind, in fact hiding his syphilis, which is treated mechanically with genital agony. Lucrezia passes on her gift, a panther, to her Genuese suitor, Calvino, while courting his artistic younger brother. Cesare, Micheletto and their host, Medici minister Machiavelli, are ever less safe as Savanarola's 'angelic' militia of zealot knaves raids the city to burn all 'vanity', even great art. Juan leads the papal army in the siege of pigheadedly indomitable Caterina Sforza's castle Forli, presumed impregnable now it's fitted with French canons. Abusing the white flag, Juan captures her beloved teenage son Benito Sforza and promises to publicly torture the innocent knave to death unless she submits. She refuses, countering obscenely, fails to have him shot dead but hopes for relief. Milanese duke Ludovico's superior army arrives and steamrolls over Juan's men.—KGF Vissers
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