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Johannes Burkhardt: Lady Lucrezia, you have intimated some grave disappointment on your wedding night? Lucrezia Borgia: It was disturbing, Your Honor, in the extreme. Johannes Burkhardt: Would you be so kind as to elaborate? Lucrezia Borgia: I blush with shame, to speak of such matters before this... august company. But...sadly... tragically, my husband revealed himself to be... (she trails off, Sforza frowns at her impatiently) Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: You may speak frankly, Lady Lucrezia. These are grave matters. Lucrezia Borgia: My husband, turned out... Johannes Burkhardt: Please proceed. (Alexander smiles at his daughter and gestures for her to go on) Lucrezia Borgia: (looks Sforza straight in the eye)... Turned out to be impotent. (the Cardinals chuckle) Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: Ah. Giovanni Sforza: (smiles and shakes his head angrily) Monstrous. This is monstrous! On the wedding night, I can prove it- (he trails off) Johannes Burkhardt: (mockingly)...Yes? Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: You said, on the wedding night?... Giovanni Sforza:... I say she lies. Johannes Burkhardt: (steps forward) Indeed, but you just mentioned proof. Giovanni Sforza: (glares at Lucrezia) She lies. Johannes Burkhardt: Ah. (turns back to the Pope) There are precedents, Your Holiness, for a demonstration of proof of...potency. The Lord Sforza could demonstrate his claims to proof of full potency, with the Lady Lucrezia, before a gathering of Canon lawyers. Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: (pretending to be shocked) No, no no, that would surely be distasteful to the lady herself. (smiles at Lucrezia) Indeed, as would the Lord?... (gestures in Sforza's direction) Giovanni Sforza: (scoffs) The very thought is an outrage! Johannes Burkhardt: Well, then there remains one more possibility. (goes to the Pope) A public demonstration of the Lord Sforza's prowess, with one or two willing maidens, would also constitute proof of potency. (the Cardinals laugh again) Giovanni Sforza: Public? Johannes Burkhardt: Indeed. In a place of the college's choosing, before a gathering of canon lawyers and a selection of the Roman public. Giovanni Sforza: (distastefully) You mean... Courtesans? Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: But we will spare the Lord Sforza such...public humiliation. (stands up, gestures at the room around them) A demonstration here, before our brother Cardinals, would suffice.

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