- The King of Naples refuses to accept Lucrzia's child as part of the marriage agreement and pointedly invites Caterins Sforza and other Borgia enemies to the wedding.
- The purge of the College of Cardinals continues, it's latest victim being Cardinal Versucci. He accuses the Pope of lining his own pockets and proceeds to set the Vatican treasury on fire.Cesare travels to Naples to negotiate Lucrezia's marriage contract and also to see if they might be of help against Caterina Sforza. He finds people starving and is not impressed with his allies. The King of Naples claims to have an army of 10,000 but Cesare is not so easily duped. The contract is successfully negotiated but the King refuses to accept Lucrezia's child. The new French ambassador tells the Pope of the French King's unhappy marriage and Alexander sees the possibility of a new alliance. The King of Naples also sees the possibility of new allies and invites Caterina and the four major families to the wedding.—garykmcd
- Rodrigo insists on marrying off Lucrezia to Neapolitan king Ferdinand II's naively gentle, actually enamored son Alfonso of Aragon, even after Cesare finds his 'mighty army' a rusty joke, like Rome's, and can't get assurances that Paolo's bastard son will be legitimated, or at least discretely tolerated. The wedding is attended, in Ferdinand's provocative suite, by vindictive Catherina Sforza and the families plotting with her to overturn the Borgias. After another cardinal is demoted, the relevant accounts in the treasury fall prey to presumed arson. Informed by the French ambassador that young new king Louis XII wants amicable relations with the pope and needs to dispense of his barren arranged queen, Rodrigo plans to sells his dispensation dearly and arrange a French wedding for Cesare. Discovering both families arranged their wedding as if they were paws, Alfonso sulkily retreats and Lucrezia insist to spend her wedding night incestuously in dear Cesare's bed.—KGF Vissers
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