- Cesare unites the sons of the five Romagna families with his own army against Forli, and the Pope negotiates for a with Constantinople Jews for a holy relic.
- With the King of Naples dead, Lucrezia sends for her son. The year 1500 is approaching and Pope Alexander has declared it to be a year of jubilation. Expecting large numbers of pilgrims in Rome, he wants the Church to provide the spectacle they will expect. He wants the cardinals to come up with money-making ideas. He also puts pressure on the representatives of the Constantinople Jews who came to seek permission to live in Rome, to contribute to the holy crusade against the Turks. Yet they have a different contribution in mind. The plague has returned and Caterina Sforza looks to use it as a weapon against the Pope. Cesare returns with his own army countering the Sforzas influence and intent on taking Milan. He quickly gains several allies. He is outsmarted however.—garykmcd
- The pope is determined the approaching JUbilee year 1500 must generate funds for the new St. Peter's basilica and a crusade against the Turks, so the cardinals are ordered to compete in devising lucrative methods to milk the flood of pilgrims, such as indulgences (essentially bought absolutions). Jewish refugees from the Ottoman-overrun Byzantinian empire remnants seek refuge and trading rights, but can't offer lavish sums for the privilege. Instead, their leader Mattai proposes the spear of Longinus, used at the Christ's passion, which a cardinal rationally suspect to be just another forgery, but the pope 'chooses to believe'. Catharina Sforza's henchman collects pest germs to infect a peace proposal sent in his name to the pope. However Cesare forbids presenting it to the pope, an ambitious cardinal keeps it himself and thus brings the epidemic into the papal palace. Cesare returns from France with a wife and an army, strong enough to lure the aristocratic families to his side and conquer Milan on the other Sforza branch, but the duke was tipped off and evacuated his city. Lucrezia is happily reunited with Paolo's son, but anxiously awaits who will succeed the king, two princes being in line before husband Alfonso.—KGF Vissers
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