那是达芬奇和米开朗基罗的时代，开明的创造力和无与伦比的知识成就。 但这也是马基耶维利的时代，那里有无法无天的猖,、不断的战争和无法形容的堕落。 梵蒂冈是世界秩序的核心，是王国与帝国之间冲突的仲裁者。 在梵蒂冈的中心是一个人，他对权力的追求会促使他寻求最高的荣誉，罗马的圣座。 他的名字将成为无情的代名词，他的教皇统治将被铭记为天主教历史上最臭名昭著的一章-罗德里戈·波吉亚。 他的四个孩子-最老的胡安（Juan），一个傲慢，懒惰，无良的性掠夺者塞萨尔（Cesare），一个被非信仰和黑暗暴力天性所折磨的年轻人，露丝缇亚（Lucretia），一个女孩发现了女性的秘密力量。 性欲...

  It was the age of Da Vinci and Michelangelo, of enlightened creativity and unparalleled intellectual achievement. But it was also the age of Machievelli, of rampant lawlessness, incessant war and unspeakable depravity. At the heart of the world order was the Vatican, the arbiter of conflicts between kingdoms and empires. And at the center of the Vatican was a man whose quest for power would propel him to seek the ultimate prize, the holy see of Rome. He was a man whose name would become synonymous with ruthlessness, and whose reign as pope would be remembered as the most infamous chapter of the history of the Catholic church -Rodrigo Borgia. His four children -Juan, the oldest, a prideful, lazy, unscrupulous sexual predator, Cesare, a young man torn between a faith that was not his calling and his dark violent nature, Lucretia, a young girl discovering the secret power that a women's sexuality holds...