pencil: Milo Manara

story: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lucrezia Borgia tries to poison her husband, failing.
Giovanni Sforza flees with his lover, taking refuge with his uncle.
After conquering Naples, Charles VIII is killed by an eruption on Vesuvius.
Cesare can return to Rome, but discovers that his father wants to entrust the command of the papal army to his brother Giovanni.
Cesare has Giovanni killed, then confessing it to his father.
Alexander VI allows Cesare to leave his priestly career and appoints him general of his army.
Lucrezia Borgia dies giving birth to a deformed son, who is suppressed.
Cesare becomes Leonardo Da Vinci's lover to convince him to build new weapons for his army.
Three years later Micheletto, the Pope's assassin, returns home to Calabria and tells his mother of the decline of the Borgias.
Despite the conquests, Cesare Borgia catches smallpox and is forced to hide the sores under a mask.
Alexander VI has Savonarola tortured to death.
Giuliano Della Rovere poisons Alexander VI, becoming the Pope with the name of Julius II.
Cesare Borgia is betrayed by the King of Navarre, who has him killed.
Micheletto, having escaped Cesare's attack, commits suicide with his mother.
A raw and violent vision of the Borgia domain, splendidly represented by Manara and Jodorowsky.
Very similar to the story "The Terrible Pope", volume 1 and volume 2, also written by Jodorowsky but drawn by Caneschi, which instead tells the atrocities of Julius II.