The Borgia Apocalypse: The Screenplay Page 8
by Neil Jordan
Lucrezia Borgia lived out her life as Duchess of Ferrara, patroness of the arts, and of the poet Pietro Bembo.
INT. ST PETER’S. DAY.
The papal crown is placed on Della Rovere’s head. Surrounding him, all of the magnificent pomp of the Renaissance Papacy. A choir sings a Magnificat.
IT DISSOLVES INTO –
The portrait of Pope Julius, by Raphael. A legend reads:
LEGEND
Cardinal Della Rovere became Pope Julius the Second. He commissioned the Sistine Chapel from Michelangelo and the rebuilding of St. Peter’s into the basilica that still stands today.
THE END.
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