Recently brushed more American dramas, the second season of "Ice Storm" makes people feel very nervous, very enjoyable, "Black Sail" male protagonist actually and good friends came to a light kiss, let me stunned; in addition, I am still brushing "Borgia Family".
This play tells some things about the Vatican pope's contention, which can be said to be jaw-dropping, and the place that many people thought was sacred was so filthy.
HBO's classic "Roma" has a lot of power struggles, Caesar in order to consolidate his power, will also buy Aventis killers to get rid of political enemies, for which Polo almost killed.
But in The Borgia, this vendetta is like a common occurrence. In the second episode of the first season, a cardinal actually wants to murder the pope at the dinner table, but is finally discovered by the pope's son and completes the counter-killing.
Then another cardinal, dissatisfied with the pope's efforts to maintain his rule, promoted a new wave of cardinals and dispersed his powers. The cardinal went so far as to seek the abolition of the Pope, and found a record in the books that the Pope could abolish it if he did an obscene thing.
And the cardinal also found witnesses, a maid who discovered the pope's private life was inappropriate. This became a stain on the Pope, but there was no problem, because the Pope had a son named Caesar, who dealt with this kind of filth hidden in the shadows for the Pope.
So the cardinal who opposed the pope returned home and saw the maid dying on her bed in a disheveled manner. At this point, it is reasonable and unclear, what to do? You can only escape.
Escaping was not so easy, and Caesar immediately arranged for his retinue to go to Naples to carry out the assassination. Although the assassination failed, it frightened the prince of Naples, because he knew that the Pope wanted to kill the cardinal, and that Naples, which was surviving in the cracks, could not confront the Pope.
So the rebellious cardinals could only continue into exile and seek support.
But the Pope was in no mood to deal with him at the moment, because the Pope was playing a bigger game. The pope's beautiful daughter has grown up and needs to choose a son-in-law. As long as you find a powerful husband for your daughter, then your own position as pope will be more stable.
This scene reminds me of the Western Xia princess competition in "Tianlong Babu", which is really an ancient anecdote. This time, the Pope of Borgia also chose a good son-in-law in Europe, with a clear purpose, that is, to consolidate his rule in Rome.
But at this time, the pope and his eldest son Caesar had some contradictions, that is, about the choice of the daughter's husband. Caesar believed that his sister's marriage should be arranged by her sister and not entirely by her parents.
This is a good brother, but the Pope as a father does not allow anyone to question his decision, even his son.
Another thing about the dowry of the pope's daughter was that a Muslim prince was sent to the pope by his brother because his brother feared that he would threaten his succession to the throne. However, he could not kill him directly, so he sent him to the Pope, asked the Pope to help take care of him, and gave him forty thousand gold coins a year.
Soon after, however, the Muslim prince sent a message to the Pope that if he returned his brother's body, the Pope would receive 400,000 gold coins, which was a large fortune. The Pope calculated that it could be used as a dowry for his daughter.
So the conspiracy was about to begin, but the Pope's daughter seemed to like the little Muslim prince, and Caesar was opposed to killing the little prince in this matter.
This is the power struggle, sometimes thinking about the princes and nobles in ancient times, it is actually more difficult than the ordinary people. The struggle for power is not only about money, but the most important thing is that you don't know which day your destiny will be gone.
I have to say that this "Borgia Family" is completely comparable to "Roma" in the power struggle. In some details, it even surpasses "Roma".
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