Dormir con vuestros ojos

1527. The sun of the first day of summer is rising over a Florence devastated by the plague. A man is dying in his mansion on the edge of the Arno. He has been a counselor to the most powerful and a lover of the most beautiful. Alone on his deathbed, Foreign Minister Nicholas Machiavelli tries to shed light on what was his life. He evokes ladies he was loved by, popes he negotiated with, powerful lords who weren't always up to the task of his. A passage that he cannot decipher haunts him. In that confused adventure, which began in 1499, the three decisive names in his life were linked: the Countess of Forlì, Caterina Sforza, Pope Alexander VI and his son, César Borgia. And a murky gift that arrived late to his recipient: the wedding portrait of Bianca Sforza, Caterina's niece, dead too young. Why was this assignment so important? What fate of death inhabited that exquisite portrait of the master Leonardo that Chancellor Machiavelli delivered too late?