The Borgias, Season One

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.