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How did you let this paragon of cities
turn into a cesspit...

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...of vice and depravity?

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For as the waters flow
through Venice every day...

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...and wash away the filth...

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Do you not agree?

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I think not.

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A soul in torment is a soul without God.

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All flesh is grass.

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We must all meet our Maker.

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To this end we must all come.

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Even Venetians.

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You can be saved, my brother.

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You can...

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...cure me of my desire...

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...young idealist?

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No.

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I can't.

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Tonight's too many hours away.

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My affections aren't mine
to give you tonight.

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What?

21
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I have mouths to feed like you.

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I'll support you.

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No. There will no money between us.

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So you'd continue with this life?

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I have no choice.
This is the life I was given.

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You do have a choice.

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If I were yours alone, your property...

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...you'd soon tire of me.

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You're wrong.

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Am I?

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If you cared for me,
you could not do this.

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Do not ask of me what you cannot give.

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Your wife is waiting.

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What ails you, Marco?

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What do you mean?

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I want to be a good wife.

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Impending deprivation...

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...always makes me hungry.

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My dear...

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...you're not eating.

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But you are though, darling.

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There'll be no more of these little
delicacies if the sultan turns nasty.

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Why are bells ringing
at this time of night?

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The sultan has attacked.

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He took 8 ships near Malta.

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If we don't sail for Cyprus by Easter,
we won't be sailing back.

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- Sooner, I think.
- If we can't rally France, we won't.

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The Turks have 3 ships to our 1.

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- Will the King of France help us?
- If we amuse him.

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King Henry's a boy in men's breeches.

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- A powerful boy.
- A boy nonetheless.

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He commands a lot of ships
and has no love for the Turks.

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Your wife believes
she has bewitched you.

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What's the harm in bewitching
a married man?

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That man has to have heirs.
He's to be a senator soon.

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So he shall.

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What God and greed
have joined together...

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...let no love put asunder.

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The woman you love is not good...

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...not pure, not meek.

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I'm a courtesan. It's the only thing
you'll let me do...

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I can't bear it.

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I know I have no right...

64
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...but I won't share you.

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But I must share you. I must bear that.
I have no choice.

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Please don't envy Giulia.
She will never have what you have.

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Please trust me.

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I don't know how.

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I'll earn your trust.

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Let me.

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You'll go to war and die.

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Stay with me for as long as we have.

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And be your private whore?

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Don't ever say that.

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You're Veronica Franco.

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You're a poet.

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And you're my lady.

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Cancel my appointments, please.

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It's a treacherous game you play,
my little idiot.

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You outdid me long ago.

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I know that.

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And the irony is, it's not because...

83
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...you're prettier than I was,
because you're not.

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Nor that you're a better lay,
because you aren't.

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It's because you're smarter.
You have a gift.

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- Don't throw it away.
- For God's sake, haven't I done enough?

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He's a client like the others.
Love him and lose.

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I must go. King Henry's coming.

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I'll get my things.

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You've been selfish,
keeping her hidden away.

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You came back in time...

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...to seduce the French king.
He arrives tomorrow.

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He'd let Paris burn for a good lay.

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He'll hardly fight for Venice.

95
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Depends on how Venice lays him.

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I don't mind fighting,
but I prefer a war I can win.

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Without France's ships,
it's a suicide mission.

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Glorious architecture.

99
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Good Henry!

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We must fight the infidels here...

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...before we can beat them abroad!
Before we can fight them at home!

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Take this paper to the king!

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Let me go! I'm a man of God!
Give him this paper!

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France has zealots too. We prefer
heretics. They're not so serious.

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Zealots are creating
difficulties everywhere.

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Our captains tell us...

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...the Muslim Turks have been
spotted near Cyprus.

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Rather presumptuous, don't you think?

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Rather presumptuous to think
the Church wouldn't come to its defense?

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What about these courtesans
Venice is so famous for?

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The sultan is too experienced
to gamble...

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I'd like to meet them.

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Are they nearby?

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Who's that? She's not with the others.

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Veronica Franco, Your Excellency.
The poetess.

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Is she a courtesan?

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She is, Your Highness.

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Tell her to come forward.

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I want her.

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Most exquisite.

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- You do me great honor.
- I take you from the one you love.

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You have to say that.
I'm the king.

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I have to say that
because Venice needs you.

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What do you yearn for, IKing Henry?

125
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You've heard the rumors.

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Yes, sire.

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The king is a pervert.

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What do you really yearn for?

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Tears.

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Your tears.

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You yearn for my tears?

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I don't think so.

133
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Then what do I yearn for?

134
00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,480
Why don't we find out?

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You'll get your ships.

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- Poet to kings.
- A national asset.

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More than 100 French ships.

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00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,080
We should make you
ambassador to the emperor.

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He doesn't deserve her.

140
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Would he sooner we didn't get the ships?

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He would rather he had the right
to refuse even a king your hand.

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I could not refuse.

143
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Couldn't you?

144
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:07,920
I think you like it.

145
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,920
You like what it has made me.

146
00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,080
I don't like what it makes me.

147
00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,000
Why did you not stop me?

148
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,080
You're not mine to stop!

149
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,640
Whose fault is that?

150
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,040
You sleep with Giulia for duty's sake.

151
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,000
I slept with the IKing of France once for
duty's sake. Who does not forgive?

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00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,040
Perhaps I can't live with it.

153
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,880
I pray God to watch over you.

154
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,800
Save your prayers, Veronica.

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00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,080
The devil's got my heart now.
God hasn't a chance.

156
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,880
We were hoping you'd tell us
what's happening with the war.

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What do you know?

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Just that we're
fighting the Turks again.

159
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And that's all?

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00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,160
Their sultan sent us an ultimatum.

161
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,640
Either we surrender Cyprus or he takes it
by force. Our fleets went to defend it.

162
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,800
Is Cyprus so important,
we must send our husbands to battle?

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00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:45,800
Without Cyprus...

164
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,440
...we lose control over
the eastern Mediterranean.

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00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,440
I know we own it...

166
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,680
...but where exactly is Cyprus?

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My husband...

168
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,040
...do you know if he is alive or dead?

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00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,080
Alive and well.

170
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:06,960
And mine?

171
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,960
The admiral is alive. And a hero.

172
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,360
And my husband?

173
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:17,960
Who is your husband?

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00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,000
Vicco.

175
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,000
My husband is Pietro Vicco.

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00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,200
He's strong. He'll come home safely.

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00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,640
You know her husband well.

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00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,440
Not at all well,
but his reputation precedes him.

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Go on, ask her.

180
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,240
Ask her what you're longing to.

181
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,800
Ask her what draws our husbands
back to her again and again...

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00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,720
...like pigs to a trough!

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00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,360
The Latin for banana is <i>ariena</i>.

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00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,000
Banana tree is <i>pala</i>.

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00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,040
A woman's greatest
and most hard-won asset...

186
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,200
...is an education.

187
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,800
Just because you can say it in Latin
doesn't make it less obscene.

188
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,680
Just because you took a vow
doesn't mean you know love.

189
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,280
Either that whore leaves or I leave.
No Christian woman could tolerate this!

190
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,360
You're unfit to be a mother.

191
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At least I am a mother.

192
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,440
Thank you for your assistance,
<i>Signora</i> Franco.

193
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,320
He's alive.

194
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,960
You made many enemies today.

195
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,680
They were already enemies.

196
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,640
Now they will become more so.

197
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,200
Did you come to warn me?

198
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...make her a courtesan.

199
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,160
I will not pimp your daughter.

200
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,360
Look at the life you live.

201
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,800
The freedom that you have.

202
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,880
You'll deny my daughter
the same chance?

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00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:07,560
Turn right up ahead.

204
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,680
Look.

205
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,280
Look outside.

206
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,240
This is where we go to die.

207
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,160
You will not end here.

208
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,440
Livia, Venice's reigning Venus.

209
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,800
A jealous lover did that.

210
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,480
Who wants her now?

211
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,880
My cage seems bigger than yours,
but it's still a cage.

212
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,840
You won't get sympathy from me.

213
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,240
I don't want it.

214
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,280
Do you know what my
daughter's nurse told her today?

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00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,440
That in a girl's voice lies temptation.

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00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:06,080
A known fact. Eloquence in a woman
means promiscuity.

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00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,200
Promiscuity of the mind...

218
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,240
...leads to promiscuity of the body.

219
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,880
She doesn't believe her yet,
but she will.

220
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,800
She'll grow up like her mother.

221
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,640
She'll marry, bear children...

222
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,640
...and honor her family.
Spend her youth in needlepoint...

223
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,080
And when she dies...

224
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,120
...she'll wonder why she obeyed
all the rules of God and country...

225
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,240
...because no biblical hell
could ever be worse...

226
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,160
...than this state
of perpetual inconsequence.

227
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,360
<i>Silent God ignores my prayer</i>

228
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,280
<i>And renders lost</i>

229
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,320
<i>What once was fair</i>

230
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,480
<i>Once blissful</i>
<i>Fortune's favorite city</i>

231
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,480
<i>Now wheeled fate turns</i>

232
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,480
<i>No trace of pity</i>

233
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,840
<i>Citizens of Venice!</i>

234
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,800
<i>Look around you now</i>
<i>at the disease and deaths...</i>

235
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,440
<i>... that have taken over</i>
<i>our once beautiful city, and tell me...</i>

236
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,440
<i>... this plague is not a punishment...</i>

237
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,080
<i>... from God!</i>

238
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,320
<i>We are surrounded by harlots...</i>

239
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,000
<i>... and courtesans!</i>

240
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,560
<i>We must cast out</i>
<i>those who tempt us...</i>

241
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,480
...for we are a city of shame...

242
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,000
<i>... of fornication...</i>

243
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,000
<i>... and carnal practices</i>
<i>that defy description.</i>

244
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,000
<i>We will go the way of Sodom</i>
<i>and Gomorrah...</i>

245
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,560
<i>... and become dust</i>
<i>in the sands of time!</i>

246
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,080
There's news from Venice.

247
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,560
The corruption of flesh,
the paint on their faces...

248
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,440
...the vile coloring of their hair,
their wanton dress...

249
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,800
Look on them and within yourselves.

250
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,400
You're alive.

251
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,520
You're alive.

252
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,880
Forgive me.

253
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,520
Please forgive me.

254
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:33,920
I'm sorry.

255
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,200
<i>Signora</i> Veronica Franco...

256
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:31,120
...I hereby summon you to appear before
the tribunal of the Holy Inquisition.

257
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,640
You have no jurisdiction here, Senator.
I speak for the Church.

258
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,880
The Inquisition?

259
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:55,640
In Venice?

260
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,280
We have 56,000 dead.

261
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,080
The living want answers. They may be
wrong answers, but they want them.

262
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,480
Be glad the bastards
aren't burning us out.

263
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:05,840
You can stop it!

264
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,800
If the doge came out in defense
of a notorious courtesan...

265
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,080
Now she's notorious?
Before she was a national asset.

266
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,240
It would topple the government.

267
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,320
These are grim times, Senator.

268
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,600
You're an elected official.

269
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,720
You cannot refuse your office.

270
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,400
Then you compel me
to condone these proceedings.

271
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,040
Am I mistaken, or is Venice
still a free republic?

272
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,760
By order of the pope, the Inquisition
has come to Venice...

273
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,840
...to seek out heresy and beliefs
anathema to the Church.

274
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,640
Veronica Franco...

275
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,160
...you have been denounced...

276
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,880
...on the charge of witchcraft,
a mortal sin punishable by death.

277
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,760
Should you confess and repent
during these proceedings...

278
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,320
...you will be mercifully welcomed back
into the bosom of the Holy Church.

279
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,000
Your Holiness...

280
00:34:42,190 --> 00:34:43,160
Silence!

281
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:50,040
The accused shall make no utterance but
to answer our questions or to confess.

282
00:34:50,670 --> 00:34:52,040
Proceed, Monsignor.

283
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,320
Venice...

284
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,670
...ever a noble republic...

285
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,840
...home of learning...

286
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,080
...art, commerce...

287
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,000
...has been brought low
by war and plague.

288
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,640
Do you know why?

289
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,120
I am not that wise.

290
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,480
Tell us...

291
00:35:20,670 --> 00:35:21,960
...how many...

292
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,640
...of the worthy men of this city
have you taken into your chamber?

293
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,160
I've not counted my lovers.

294
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,440
Answer the question.

295
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:38,760
Yes.

296
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,280
More than 100?

297
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:41,400
I don't know.

298
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:42,480
You don't?

299
00:35:42,670 --> 00:35:46,190
Yet for each you paraded your
milky breast and hair of spun copper.

300
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,880
For each you learned his
unique favored touch...

301
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,800
...and enchanted him to believe
he was the only man in the universe.

302
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,360
How many per week?

303
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,480
I told you. I enchanted no one.

304
00:35:56,670 --> 00:36:01,000
Did you feign love with more than 10
weekly? Or would 5 or 6 have sated you?

305
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,280
I never feigned love.

306
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:03,440
So why'd they pay?

307
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,190
For the dream of love...

308
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,190
...as it cannot exist in this world
that you've created.

309
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,760
For the hope there might exist
on earth some corner of this paradise...

310
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,190
Paradise?

311
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,600
When 56,000 have fallen?

312
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,000
You say this.

313
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,160
You...

314
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,000
...who fill your home with feast
and dance while Venice suffers?

315
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,640
Who creates a sumptuous
world of flesh...

316
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,800
...and depravity, of orgiastic rites
invoking the devil?

317
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,440
- This is paradise?
- The only devilry here is your spite!

318
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,960
He's jealous of what he cannot have!

319
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,080
Do not intrude into the proceedings.

320
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,520
I'm a senator of Venice.
The Inquisition is here by our consent.

321
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,320
This is an ecclesiastical court.
You are here by my consent.

322
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,160
This is a personal vendetta.

323
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,760
You will abide by our rules
or be removed.

324
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,280
Is that understood?

325
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,640
Is that understood?

326
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,960
The senator speaks the truth.

327
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,480
I was bewitched by her.

328
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,000
In my weakness, I fell under her spell
to pathetic ruin.

329
00:37:19,190 --> 00:37:21,920
It's only by the grace of God
I stand here today.

330
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:23,800
I didn't seek your love.

331
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,560
Because I could not pay your fee.

332
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:28,480
I loved another.

333
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,120
In other words...

334
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,160
...you cast your spell over all
who cross your path.

335
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,320
You compel sacred love to garner riches.
What is this if not witchcraft?

336
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,440
Ever give yourself to a man
who couldn't pay?

337
00:37:41,670 --> 00:37:44,000
I gave my heart where
riches were no use.

338
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:45,640
I did what was needed to live.

339
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,320
Did you give yourself
to a man who could not pay?

340
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,120
What other profession do you allow me?
How shall I survive if I cannot marry?

341
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,400
Answer!

342
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,120
Why, when you are determined to damn me?

343
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,400
Look at her.

344
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:02,480
Feel her wrath...

345
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:09,560
She, who lures the noble fathers
of Venice from their wives...

346
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,000
...their children...

347
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,480
...their ability to lead the republic!

348
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,800
It is she and her kind who turned
God's hands against us, Your Grace.

349
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,360
Your Grace...

350
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,960
...we must do our duty.

351
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,600
Veronica Franco, you hover at the brink
of extermination and hell.

352
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,520
You will return tomorrow to hear God's
merciful judgment and, I hope...

353
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,840
...to repent before that judgment
takes its course.

354
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,080
Remove the prisoner.

355
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:19,960
You must save yourself.

356
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:21,920
How?

357
00:39:22,190 --> 00:39:25,320
Confess whatever foolishness
they put before you...

358
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:26,840
That I'm a witch?

359
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,520
What does it matter what you say?

360
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,640
I would be saying it.

361
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,080
There is no honor with fools like these.

362
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,920
God will forgive you.

363
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,000
If I give them my lie,
I give them my soul.

364
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,040
I'll lose everything I ever was.

365
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,480
My love, my words, my heart.

366
00:39:46,670 --> 00:39:47,760
But you would live.

367
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:50,880
As someone else.

368
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,190
I've let you go too many times.

369
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,280
I can't do it again.

370
00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,920
There is no choice.

371
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,640
I'll never see you again.

372
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,800
Veronica Franco, you have been
denounced a sorceress.

373
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:56,280
Either confess and plead mercy,
or stand to receive my judgment.

374
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,080
I will confess, Your Grace.

375
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,960
That will please God.

376
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:10,360
Proceed.

377
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,640
I confess...

378
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,640
...as a girl I loved a man who would not
marry me for want of a dowry.

379
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,360
I confess I had a mother
who taught me a different way of life.

380
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,400
One I resisted at first
but learned to embrace.

381
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,840
I confess I became a courtesan.

382
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,960
Traded yearning for power, welcomed many
rather than be owned by one.

383
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,000
She does not speak to the charge.

384
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:39,320
I confess I embraced a whore's freedom
over a wife's obedience.

385
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,520
This is not repentance.

386
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,640
What am I to do?

387
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,760
I must confess my evil.
These are my sins.

388
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,360
Your Grace, her mortal sins
are not at issue.

389
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,440
She must repent witchcraft.

390
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,280
Perhaps she heads in that direction.

391
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:56,640
You have been warned.

392
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,440
The Church cannot deny her right to seek
God's mercy. Confession is sacrosanct.

393
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,120
Don't instruct me on the Church's laws!

394
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,670
Then I call upon the doge to demand
that the Inquisition abide by them.

395
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,360
If Christian mercy is gone, then
at least Venetian justice still exists.

396
00:42:14,670 --> 00:42:17,560
I pray Your Grace has heard
enough of this.

397
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:25,120
It does seem odd that the Holy Mother
Church would deny a sinner confession.

398
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,080
I see no harm in hearing her.

399
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,160
She will save or damn herself.

400
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,880
The prisoner has already damned herself.

401
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,190
But if it pleases the
esteemed doge of Venice...

402
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,040
...she may continue her heresy.

403
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:50,040
I confess I find more ecstasy
in passion than in prayer.

404
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,920
I confess...

405
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,080
I confess I pray still...

406
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,880
...to feel the touch
of my lover's lips...

407
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,640
...his hands upon me...

408
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,280
...his arms enfolding me.

409
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:13,560
Veronica, stop!

410
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,360
Save yourself, please.

411
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,480
Such surrender has been mine.

412
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,960
I confess I hunger still
to be filled and inflamed.

413
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,640
To melt into the dream of us...

414
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,360
...beyond this troubled place...

415
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,160
...to where we are not even ourselves.

416
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,160
To know that always...

417
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,800
...always this is mine.

418
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:45,800
Your Grace...

419
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,000
...is this necessary?

420
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,200
She hopes to bewitch us all.

421
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:55,000
If this had not been mine,
if I had lived another way...

422
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,320
...a child to a husband's whim...

423
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,560
...my soul hardened from lack of touch
and lack of love...

424
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,240
...I confess such endless days
and nights...

425
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,280
...would be punishment greater
than any you could mete out.

426
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:07,200
Finished?

427
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:09,120
No, Your Grace.

428
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:11,800
You, all of you...

429
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:18,680
...who hunger for what I give but cannot
bear to see such power in a woman...

430
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,400
...you call God's greatest gift...

431
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,640
...ourselves...

432
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,360
...our yearning, our need to love,
you call it filth...

433
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,000
...and sin and heresy...

434
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,680
Enough. One last time before you are
condemned: Do you repent or not?

435
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:42,200
I repent there was no other way
open to me. I do not repent my life.

436
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:47,160
Then the Holy Inquisition has heard the
evidence against you and is satisfied.

437
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,320
In the name of the pope...

438
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,000
There is more to be heard.

439
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,720
I demand the same rights of confession!

440
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:55,920
You're not on trial!

441
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,640
We're still on consecrated ground.
I confess I am her accomplice.

442
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,160
If she is a witch, damn me. I do not
repent. I will not live without her.

443
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,240
This is a cynical trick.
He does this to save her.

444
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:16,760
She's a witch!

445
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,720
Proven and convicted,
the devil in our midst...

446
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,400
...and I am her accomplice!
Condemn her if you will...

447
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,520
...but arrest me too. Arrest a senator
of Venice for witchcraft.

448
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,720
I'll not shrink
from judging the mighty.

449
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,920
I welcome it. I wait for the shackles.

450
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,880
He speaks with his heart,
not his head.

451
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,600
He's blinded by his own lust.

452
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,080
If she's a witch,
so is every woman in Venice!

453
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:44,560
Silence!

454
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,120
We are a strange city,
Your Holiness.

455
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,280
Perhaps accursed.

456
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,080
And perhaps we live
in a peculiar state of grace.

457
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,720
I am not alone...

458
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,280
...in loving this woman...

459
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,600
...though I love her far, far more
than they.

460
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,440
...were many...

461
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,240
...and proud.

462
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,000
If we do not speak now...

463
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,280
...if Venice...

464
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:36,080
...does not stand up now and acknowledge
who she is, then we are all damned...

465
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,000
...not before this court...

466
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,960
...before eternity.

467
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,080
If what he says is true...

468
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,320
...then you must speak the names
of your accomplices.

469
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:52,440
Your Grace...

470
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,960
...the men who loved her
were under her spell.

471
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:57,760
They had no volition.

472
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,440
Shall we punish
even the victims of her evil?

473
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,520
If the soul of the city is corrupt...

474
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,960
...and you help me root it out,
I will spare your life.

475
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,720
I had no accomplices, Your Grace.

476
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:24,000
Stand.

477
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:28,760
Stand!

478
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:32,160
Stand...

479
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,160
...all you who defiled
your sacred marriage beds...

480
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,840
...and declare your sin.
Stand up...

481
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,120
...with me...

482
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,240
...as we stood against
our enemies at sea!

483
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:53,960
There.

484
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:56,760
You see, Your Grace...

485
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,040
...there are no accomplices.

486
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,920
He does this to rescue her
from your justice.

487
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:07,880
Then I stand alone for Venice
and for this woman.

488
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,360
His trial will commence tomorrow.

489
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:23,960
Minister.

490
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:25,960
Do you wish to speak?

491
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,480
I repeat, do you have something
to say to this court?

492
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:34,960
I am standing.

493
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:10,400
Your Grace.

494
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,480
Perhaps there's another
who'd like to stand?

495
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,640
Perhaps we've been hasty, Your Grace.

496
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:37,240
What are you doing?

497
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,400
Witchcraft may be too harsh a charge.

498
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,320
Is everything...

499
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,200
...I heard about this city true?

500
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,560
Surely the Holy Inquisition need not
sully its hands with a common whore.

501
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,440
This is a matter for the state,
don't you think?

502
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,000
I leave this woman to Venice...

503
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,320
...which richly deserves her.