
In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very dangerous game.

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin

Cardinal Guillaume D'Estouteville

Cardinal Bessarion

Rodrigo Borgia

Orsinis Ritter

Vanozza