1st Prostitute: Would His Holiness see the Lord Sforza with one, or both of us? (Alexander gives Sforza an inquiring look, shrugs and glances to Burkhardt)
Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: Burkhardt?
Johannes Burkhardt: One demonstration will suffice. (Alexander nods to the girls, who stand up)
1st Prostitute: Me first, then. (she gets on the bed and hikes up her skirt in Sforza's direction, eliciting giggles from the Cardinals; Sforza approaches her, then stops) Do these thighs not please you? (the Cardinals laugh)
Giovanni Sforza: Enough! (Burkhardt glances up, Cesare leans forward. Sforza glares at the Pope, who is watching him smugly) Give me a divorce.
Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: But, on what grounds?
Giovanni Sforza: (quietly) Impotence. (the Cardinals laugh)
Johannes Burkhardt: (dips his quill in ink) We must hear it from the Lord Sforza's own lips. For the record..."On the wedding night"... (glances at Sforza)
Sforza: On the wedding night, I did not consummate my marriage.
Johannes Burkhardt: "Did not" or "could not"?
Giovanni Sforza: Did not. (Burkhardt continues to look expectantly at him)... And could not. (Burkhardt nods and keeps writing)
Burkhardt: "You were on that night, and remain..."
Giovanni Sforza: (enraged and humiliated) ...Impotent. (all the Cardinals, including Cesare, laugh)
Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI: (smugly) We declare the marriage between the Lady Lucrezia Borgia... and the Lord Giovanni Sforza... to be invalid. As if it never existed.
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