Synopsis:

Famous characters from the 1500s in Rome liven up the adventures of “Imperia, the Great Courtesan”: Duke Valentino and Lucrezia Borgia, the banker Agostino Chigi, Alfonso Duke of Bisceglie, Duke Carafa ambassador of the King of Naples, Pietro Aretino, man at arms Angelo del Bufalo, Pope Alexander the Sixth and the Cardinal of the Rovere, future Pope Giles the Second. The adventures of “Imperia", the Great Courtesan, will weave their plot among intrigues, murders, battles, betrayals, great love affairs and great mockeries; against the historic setting of an ancient Rome, rich and corrupt during the period of the 14th century Popes, during a time sheathed in precious fabric but savage and cruel like the cannon shots which will sweep away all the pomp and ostentation…