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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.90,0:00:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[church music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.35,0:00:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is in ecstasy, all right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.05,0:00:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her head is thrown back, her mouth open.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.61,0:00:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her heavy-lidded eyes are half closed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.98,0:00:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An angelic hand is delicately uncovering her breast.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.22,0:00:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.72,0:00:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know where to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.50,0:01:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A century after Bernini created this sculpture
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.97,0:01:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a French art lover doing the tour of Rome came into this church,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.39,0:01:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peered at the spectacle,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.88,0:01:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "Well, if that's divine love, I know all about it."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.67,0:01:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.36,0:01:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely not an erotic trance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.39,0:01:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not from the most devout sculptor in Rome.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.57,0:01:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one who was the bosom friend of popes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.82,0:01:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pillar of the Catholic establishment,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.82,0:01:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could possibly want us to see a nun in the throes of orgasm.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.40,0:01:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could he?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.21,0:02:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's no good pretending that ecstasy isn't a physical as well as a spiritual experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.03,0:02:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The passion doesn't work through the body as well as the soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.80,0:02:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini knew all about passion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.96,0:02:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what his art was about.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.58,0:02:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was this physical intensity that would transform sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.63,0:02:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one before Bernini had managed to make marble so carnal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.85,0:03:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his nimble hands it would flutter and stream, quiver and sweat.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.65,0:03:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His figures weep and shout.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.06,0:03:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their torsos twist and run and arch themselves in spasms of intense sensation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.81,0:03:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could, like an alchemist, change one material into another.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.04,0:03:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marble into trees.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.22,0:03:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leaves, hair.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.41,0:03:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.65,0:03:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[woman singing]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.64,0:03:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole point of classical sculpture was to make humans less so,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.53,0:03:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give mortal flesh the heavyweight smoothness of immortality.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.47,0:04:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So many of them end up looking divine but bloodless.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.10,0:04:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then along comes Bernini, and suddenly even Michelangelo's David looks immobile
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.30,0:04:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beside Bernini's whirling, twisting tornado.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.40,0:04:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His sculpture was supposed to convey gravity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.40,0:04:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini would defy it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.87,0:04:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His figures break loose from their plinths,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.80,0:04:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flying away into space.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.72,0:04:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[rushing music]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.38,0:04:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For as long as anyone could remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.58,0:04:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gian Lorenzo Bernini had startled the people who mattered.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.02,0:05:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brought before the pope when he was just 8, he did a lightning sketch of St. Paul's head
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.89,0:05:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that prompted the astonished pope to tip the little boy as the next Michelangelo.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.73,0:05:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His father, Pietro, was a sculptor from Florence,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.65,0:05:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seldom better than competent, and sometimes worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.97,0:05:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in his son, he knew a good thing when he saw it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.81,0:05:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Watch out, Signor Bernini," an admiring cardinal said,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.66,0:05:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The boy will surpass his master."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.27,0:05:45.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, fast out of the starting blocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.31,0:05:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our little prodigy -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.80,0:05:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a playful tour de force.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.89,0:06:01.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two little angels embrace in wide-eyed innocence.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.41,0:06:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini did this in his teens.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.88,0:06:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He kept it on display on the landing of his house throughout his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.02,0:06:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is his goat, Analthea, and the infant Jupiter.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.64,0:06:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A standard bit of mythology transformed into a romp with the shaggiest nanny goat in sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.61,0:06:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What makes these little figures burst from their dull mythological subject matter?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.46,0:06:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have the hot breath of life in them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.30,0:06:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lusty, mischievous, nursery school naughtiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.97,0:06:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[choral singing]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.96,0:06:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini arrived in Rome in 1605.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.97,0:07:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just at the time Caravaggio's punchy street dramas were electrifying the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.05,0:07:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giving it a new vision of how to move the flock.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.49,0:07:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more remote saints. Instead, the shock theatre of the earthy passions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.38,0:07:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Salvation in the guts.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.41,0:07:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do you top Caravaggio?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.25,0:07:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Answer: You cant.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.59,0:07:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.02,0:07:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is St. Lawrence being barbecued alive for his Christian beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.81,0:07:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini was 16 when he did this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.89,0:07:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's trying to catch the moment of transcendent pain.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.54,0:08:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When - if we believe the legends - St. Lawrence turns to his executioners and says, in a moment of macabre drollery,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.00,0:08:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Right, turn me over boys. This side's done."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.04,0:08:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No wonder he became the patron saint of cooks!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.41,0:08:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's something serious going on here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.89,0:08:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Lawrence's hand touches the flame, a mysterious transformation takes place.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.80,0:08:37.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The chronicler said the smell of scorched flesh turned fragrant.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.97,0:08:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pain and sweetness become one.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.58,0:08:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Torment becomes ecstacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.97,0:08:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A rehearsal perhaps, for a sweet ordeal to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.58,0:08:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He loved playing with fire, did Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.25,0:09:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Couldn't stop himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.89,0:09:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here he is as a damned soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.67,0:09:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a self-portrait.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.26,0:09:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini has scorched his own arm in a naked flame, screaming in the mirror
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.95,0:09:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get the expression just right.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.82,0:09:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An extremist for his art, then, but also perhaps someone capable of impulsive acts of violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.25,0:09:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still, it's a drama of the flesh no one, not even Michelangelo, had made quite so gripping.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.79,0:09:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[glorious choral singing]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.48,0:09:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was enough to make one bigwig on the Roman scene - Cardinal Scipione Borghese -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.95,0:09:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to adopt Gian Lorenzo as his personal staff property.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.22,0:10:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone who'd make his fabulous new villa up here on the Pinchion hill THE place to see great art.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.02,0:10:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How the other red hats would gnash their teeth in envy!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.09,0:10:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was something larger than life about Scipione Borghese.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.17,0:10:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bull-like neck and head sat atop a jumbo body.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.63,0:10:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sly Bernini. Using a button that can't quite make it through its hole
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.22,0:10:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give us a feeling for the flesh tight-packed into the satin.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.10,0:10:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The holy man of the church is, above all, a physical presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.10,0:11:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looks more like a chief than His Eminence.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.27,0:11:05.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he was after, Bernini said, was a speaking likeness
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.01,0:11:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he thought that people gave themselves away most characteristically
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.56,0:11:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either just before or after they spoke.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.10,0:11:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he works his magic on Scipione.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.61,0:11:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The little fringe poking out from the cardinal's hat,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.70,0:11:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the chipmunk's cheeks,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.46,0:11:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fleshy blubbery lips.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.71,0:11:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scipione's nose catching the light in such a way as to suggest a film of sweat,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.13,0:11:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the natural effusion of a big man in a hot city.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.96,0:11:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rome. The holy metropolis buzzing with worldly ambition.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.41,0:11:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the church aristocracy it's not just the money you've got that counts.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.63,0:12:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also the art.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.96,0:12:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Painters, sculptors and architects are angling for patrons.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.27,0:12:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Rothschilds and the Sarches of their day, the popes and cardinals
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.18,0:12:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are gambling on the next prize genius.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.31,0:12:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini, of course, has everything it takes to succeed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.02,0:12:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's witty, charming,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.89,0:12:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extremely well-connected,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.31,0:12:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,frighteningly cultured,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.42,0:12:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ferociously disciplined,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.43,0:12:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always delivers when he says he will,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.05,0:12:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he doesn't drink.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.22,0:12:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, the opposite of Caravaggio.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.58,0:12:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how do we know all this?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.66,0:13:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, someone had noted Bernini's every move - Filippo Baldinucci,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.26,0:13:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,minor painter, gossip and art critic.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.75,0:13:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not that important in himself, but someone who'd collected everything he could
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.55,0:13:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from those who knew Bernini,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.95,0:13:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and turned it into his first proper biography.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.80,0:13:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.02,0:13:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Apollo and Daphne.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.41,0:13:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a story of sexual hunting.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.80,0:13:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apollo wants the nymph, Daphne.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.72,0:13:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She definitely doesn't want him.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.10,0:13:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He runs after her,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.55,0:13:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just as he's about to grab her
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.74,0:14:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gods answer her prayers by turning her into a laurel tree.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.57,0:14:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all action sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.26,0:14:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apollo, breaking his breathless run, his cape and his hair still flying in the wind,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.81,0:14:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daphne, who's cornered, isn't rooted to the spot, except botanically.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.95,0:14:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And seems to be climbing into the air, her mouth open wide in a scream.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.57,0:14:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hair and fingers already metamorphosing into leafy twigs.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.30,0:14:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the tease of the drama is the silky nude
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.73,0:15:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Bernini's made available to us, exactly as she disappears inside her protective casing of tree bark.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.13,0:15:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A painfully thwarted consummation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.54,0:15:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just me. A French cardinal said he wouldn't have it in his house
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.01,0:15:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because such a beautiful nude would be sure to arouse anybody who saw it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.58,0:15:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini is said to have been really pleased when he heard that.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.42,0:15:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini is in his early 20's, a superstar.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.90,0:15:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone on whom the mighty and the powerful almost fawn.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.62,0:15:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One pope, Gregory XV, makes him a knight.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.88,0:15:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Bernini is known ever after as the Cavaliere.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.05,0:15:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next pope, Urban VIII, makes him his best friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.59,0:15:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a story that when Cardinal Barberini became Pope Urban VIII,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.09,0:16:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he called Bernini into his apartment and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.61,0:16:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.80,0:16:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini is Rome's supreme virtuoso, the emperor of the arts, and not just in sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.97,0:16:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's also a painter, a master builder, and a playwright.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.40,0:17:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he has everything - charisma, swarthy good looks, money, status, and enemies.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.88,0:17:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Francesco Borromini - taciturn, neurotic, introverted, depressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.89,0:17:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A man of absolutely no social graces whatsoever.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.75,0:17:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For good and for ill, Borromini would play a pivotal role in Bernini's life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.88,0:17:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two of them would trip over each other's ambitions,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.30,0:17:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spur each other on to ever-greater heights, ever-greater risks.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.57,0:17:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Borromini was a brilliant architect.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.72,0:17:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He made walls and balconies curve and bulge, where they had no right to.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.13,0:17:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ceilings that sing and throb.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.46,0:17:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is, exaggerating perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.46,0:18:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making the columns at the back much smaller than they should be,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.66,0:18:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to make the space much deeper than it really is.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.15,0:18:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all eye wizardry.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.30,0:18:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If two men were responsible for creating the look of the rock Rome, for making Rome Rome,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.26,0:18:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those two men were Borromini and Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.81,0:18:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, they hated each other!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.02,0:18:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first, it was a one-way rivalry - Borromini resented Bernini's popularity,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.66,0:18:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his hogging of the limelight.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.84,0:18:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a bit like Mozart and Salieri,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.10,0:18:59.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only there's no Salieri here, no weaker talent.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.18,0:19:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're both geniuses.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.14,0:19:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at these two churches, just 200 yards away from each other in Rome.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.18,0:19:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One by Bernini, the other by Borromini.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.59,0:19:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the Borromini church - St. Carlo delle Quattro Fontane.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.11,0:19:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the work of an architect chess master.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.33,0:19:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pure and austere, just brick and stucco, no color or sculpture allowed.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.23,0:19:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just mind-blowing designs worked out from the higher geometry.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.74,0:19:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The heavenly order of shapes and numbers.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.86,0:19:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, here's the Bernini church.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.94,0:19:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loads of color, troweled on, as if it were a stage set with full theatrical lighting.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.55,0:19:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all look-at-me razzle dazzle,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.85,0:20:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,showy, visceral and sexy - just like him.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.99,0:20:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rivalry between Bernini and Borromini started in earnest in 1624,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.25,0:20:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when someone had to be appointed the new architect for St. Peter's,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.78,0:20:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get to build the baldacchino, the enormous canopy over the tomb of St. Peter,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.79,0:20:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,located directly under Michelangelo's great dome.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.97,0:20:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the plummiest job in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.43,0:20:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now at this stage Borromini was far more qualified than Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.14,0:20:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd trained as an architect and was the obvious candidate for the job.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.20,0:20:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But guess who got it?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.44,0:20:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Charming - Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.58,0:20:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What? The biggest job in Rome? And he gives it to him and not me?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.40,0:21:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just because he's the pope's best friend?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.40,0:21:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the man knows damn all about buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.18,0:21:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Borromini must have been furious.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.85,0:21:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, the engineering problems of forging the great canopy, raising this twisty gilt-bronzed monster
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.64,0:21:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were a serious stretch for Bernini's competence.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.35,0:21:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, wisely, he gets help.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.43,0:21:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He turns to Borromini, who had no choice but to help.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.66,0:21:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was for the greater good of the church, after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.22,0:21:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Architecture has always been a collaborative exercise.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.98,0:21:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not surprising to find that virtually all the drawings for the balacchino are by Borromini.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.04,0:21:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does he get the credit he deserves?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.19,0:21:56.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does he, hell?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.69,0:22:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that, Francesco Borromoni neither forgives nor forgets.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.73,0:22:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an unappealing trait, this ungenerous instinct for monopolizing the glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.83,0:22:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it will come back to bite Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.64,0:22:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just Borromini who feels it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.04,0:22:22.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The assistant who did that fine leaf work on Daphne's leaves
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.57,0:22:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is so angry at not getting his due
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.22,0:22:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he walked out of the project in a rage.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.24,0:22:40.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then the Cavaliere Bernini always did have a cavalier way with his assistants.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.73,0:22:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.91,0:22:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His own mother complained.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.94,0:22:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he took what he needed, technical expertise, grinding toil,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.57,0:22:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the case of one of his assistants, Bonarelli, his wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.93,0:23:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her name is Costanza, Constance.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.97,0:23:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did she and Bernini have a laugh in bed about that?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.74,0:23:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here she is in 1637, at the height of their affair.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.58,0:23:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see he can't get enough of her.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.62,0:23:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And from the intensity of all this brimming desire
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.100,0:23:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes an entirely new kind of European sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.65,0:23:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before Costanza, busts had been entirely respectable,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.20,0:23:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were usually reserved for tombs.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.69,0:23:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only the Romans, a long time before, had used sculpture for informal portraits.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.72,0:24:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But informal doesn't right do it for Costanza.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.44,0:24:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does it?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.51,0:24:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about intimate?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.27,0:24:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this is a portrait of a woman whose passion is written on her face and her body.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.15,0:24:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whose flaring temper just adds fuel to her lover's fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.96,0:24:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what we mean by lovingly carved.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.86,0:24:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as though Bernini was reliving his caresses with his chisel,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.55,0:24:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the falling away of the blouse,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.80,0:24:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps the single sexiest invitation in all European sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.26,0:24:51.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something else unique about this sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.11,0:24:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the celebration of a spitfire.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.35,0:24:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Costanza Bonorelli may have been the wife of a lowly assistant sculptor
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.47,0:25:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she came from a proud old family.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.34,0:25:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Piccolomini.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.87,0:25:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So her jaw is firm, the rosebud mouth is in the act of speaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.98,0:25:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not deferentially.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.82,0:25:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that was supposed to define womanhood -
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.17,0:25:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demure, chaste serenity - is junked for Costanza.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.98,0:25:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's a wild thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.18,0:25:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the sculptor is hooked on her temper.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.56,0:25:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was not Costanza's temper that would end up undoing Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.79,0:25:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was his own.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.71,0:25:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite all the genteel charm, Bernini was known to have a low boiling point.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.42,0:26:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Underneath all those social graces was the bloodthirsty temper of a Neopolitan gangster.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.34,0:26:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in one unbelievably shocking episode, he lets it rip.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.29,0:26:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It started with a rumor.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.35,0:26:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Costanza, it's whispered, was not so constant after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.22,0:26:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seems she has a thing about the Bernini boys, since she's sleeping not just with Gian Lorenzo,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.70,0:26:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with his younger brother, Luigi.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.59,0:26:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.07,0:26:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, it's hard to believe, I know, that anyone would want to get their hands on anyone except Mr. Fabulous himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.26,0:26:54.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But could the rumors be true?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.98,0:26:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The trap is set that evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.06,0:27:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gian Lorenzo says breezily how he has to go off to the country the next day.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.03,0:27:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he won't be in town.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.84,0:27:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he doesn't go into the country, does he?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.08,0:27:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, early next morning he goes to Costanza's house, and waits.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.97,0:27:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luigi emerges. So does Costanza.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.40,0:27:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That swelling breast Bernini had lovingly carved flattened against Luigi's chest
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.49,0:27:39.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a passionate embrace.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.70,0:27:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a chase through the streets, across the piazzas and over the bridges
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.10,0:27:52.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right into St. Peter's itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.87,0:28:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where, its official architect does his best to murder his own brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.98,0:28:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentleman Sir grabs an iron bar and smashes it against Luigi's body,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.06,0:28:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,breaking two ribs.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.02,0:28:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's famous as a miracle worker.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.08,0:28:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time the miracle is that he hasn't killed his own brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.33,0:28:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes a message from their mother to the papal cops to separate them.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.59,0:28:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.90,0:28:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's not the end of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.42,0:28:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That afternoon Gian Lorenzo sends a servant to Costanza's house.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.79,0:28:55.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't cut her throat.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.99,0:29:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, he slashes her perfect face to ribbons.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.24,0:29:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the man who has cut stone to create beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.83,0:29:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has cut flesh to destroy it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.18,0:29:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what do you suppose is Bernini's punishment for grievous bodily harm and attempted murder?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.76,0:29:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, a really stiff sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.49,0:29:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A 3000 scudi fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.18,0:29:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except that his pal, the pope, waives it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.32,0:29:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Naughty, naughty," says the pope.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.46,0:29:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This mustn't happen again.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.20,0:29:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I sentence you to be married.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.56,0:29:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, by the way, she just happens to be the most beautiful girl in Rome.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.22,0:29:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That should keep you out of mischief!"
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.67,0:29:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Papal wink. Papal nudge.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.66,0:29:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Bernini is married off to Catalina Tetzio,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.28,0:30:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,daughter of a Roman lawyer.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.27,0:30:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For his part in the fight, brother Luigi is banished to Bologna.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.14,0:30:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone else goes to jail.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.08,0:30:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The servant who did the razor job,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.82,0:30:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, insult added to injury,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.59,0:30:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Costanza herself.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.39,0:30:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Convicted of fornication and adultery.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.00,0:30:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happened to the bust?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.20,0:30:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Bernini's new wife wouldn't have it in the house.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.40,0:30:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is just as well since Gian Lorenzo couldn't bear to look at it either.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.81,0:30:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He might, I suppose, have smashed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.95,0:30:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But luckily a Medici buyer from Florence snapped it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.69,0:30:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is why we're looking at it here, in the Bargello Museum in Florence.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.74,0:31:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Costanza that once was, and for us always will be.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.88,0:31:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[soprano]
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.83,0:31:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're thinking, "I don't care how good his sculpture is.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.28,0:31:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't care how important his art is.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.95,0:31:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What an absolute bastard!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:23.77,0:31:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please, tell me, he doesn't get off scot-free."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.85,0:31:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, strangely enough, it's exactly from this moment of the crime against Costanza
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.08,0:31:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that things go swiftly downhill for the cavaliere untouchable.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.02,0:31:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it all went wrong in the place that mattered most for Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.32,0:32:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The place that made, or broke, artists and architects.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.55,0:32:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Cathedral of St. Peter's.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.82,0:32:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the facade of St. Peter's we all know,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.11,0:32:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the aggressively confident 17th century popes didn't want to stop with this.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.70,0:32:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They wanted two great bell towers at each corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.53,0:32:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,above where we now see the clocks.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.86,0:32:37.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was those bells, after all, that would summon the faithful for papal blessings,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.25,0:32:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make the Christian dream real.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.37,0:32:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the middle, of course, was Michelangelo's great dome.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.80,0:32:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first designs for the towers made them respectfully low.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.22,0:33:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Safe, squat, one-story affairs.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.75,0:33:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then along comes Bernini, constitutionally incapable of deference.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.75,0:33:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My towers are going to be taller than your dome," he says.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.87,0:33:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Three stories tall, in fact. Almost 70 meters above the original pedestals.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.34,0:33:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Six times heavier than the original towers."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.54,0:33:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Problem was, though, Bernini's towers were about to be built on swampy ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.82,0:33:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not that Bernini didn't know about this before he got started.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.04,0:33:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just that he's surrounded by yes-men who tell him what he wants to hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.55,0:33:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That building tall towers on dotty ground is no real problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:55.12,0:34:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he needs are brutally honest advisors who aren't afraid of spelling out the risks he's taking.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:05.45,0:34:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was one person who knew that building a tall, heavy tower on unstable foundations
Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.48,0:34:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was asking for trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.97,0:34:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that person was Borromini.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.73,0:34:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it seemed to be beneath Bernini's dignity to ask his rival for advice.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.97,0:34:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, without the benefit of Borromini's criticism
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.53,0:34:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini sails straight into disaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.21,0:34:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In July 1641 Bernini unveiled his first tower to the public.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.68,0:34:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two months later, cracks start to appear.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.89,0:35:10.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini takes to his bed, won't eat, gets so ill he's reported near death.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.25,0:35:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gets worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.62,0:35:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cracks aren't just in the foundation of the bell tower,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.66,0:35:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've spread to the facade of the main church itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.22,0:35:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:48.64,0:35:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, in 1644,disaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:52.82,0:35:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pope Urban VIII, Bernini's friend and the staunchest supporter of the bell tower, dies.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.10,0:36:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a new pope, Innocent X, and he sees it as his job to get rid of all the old favorites,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.52,0:36:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.67,0:36:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all, he has a new favorite, Francesco Borromini.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.45,0:36:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, after 15 years in Bernini's shadow,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.40,0:36:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Borromini's moment for revenge has at last arrived.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.47,0:36:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An inquiry is set up to deal with Bernini's towers.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.85,0:36:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Borromini submits detailed evidence,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.93,0:36:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lovingly rendered drawing of Bernini's disaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.54,0:37:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:00.84,0:37:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, what do you expect?" says Borromini.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.18,0:37:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tower's too tall, too heavy for its base supports.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.29,0:37:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's too unwieldy. It's built recklessly on swampy ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.08,0:37:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's amazing, actually, it hasn't collapsed already.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.70,0:37:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all very well going digging beneath the tower after the offense to see
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.39,0:37:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how serious the damage is.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.33,0:37:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If he'd have asked me, since I know a bit about building, I would have told him,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:28.31,0:37:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he didn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.58,0:37:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the 23rd of February 1646, a meeting was held at the Vatican to discuss the fate of Bernini's south tower,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.19,0:37:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the pope had already made his decision.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.76,0:37:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Demolish it.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.00,0:37:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.13,0:38:00.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The demolition takes 11 months.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.34,0:38:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Bernini had been anywhere near St. Peter's he would have seen it and heard it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.78,0:38:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The winches, the pulleys, the columns stacked on the roof.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:09.48,0:38:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Down came the bell tower.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.69,0:38:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And down with it came Gian Lorenzo Bernini,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.78,0:38:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the heights of fame and reputation
Dialogue: 0,0:38:17.73,0:38:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to something like a laughingstock.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.19,0:38:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.05,0:38:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[church bells]
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.60,0:38:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's 1648. Bernini is 50.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.21,0:38:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Old by the standards of the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.16,0:38:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how did he survive the humiliation?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:42.96,0:38:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One visiting English student has him collapsing into despair.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.47,0:38:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others have him buckling down to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.85,0:38:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He still does get commissions, but not from the biggest hitters in Rome,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.67,0:38:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not any more.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.55,0:39:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would take a miracle now for him to redeem himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.57,0:39:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.34,0:39:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then -
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.25,0:39:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that miracle arrived.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:26.38,0:39:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A moment of mind-boggling drama.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.56,0:39:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A moment that wavers between mystery and indecency.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.55,0:39:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The body of a saint, penetrated.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.05,0:39:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[dramatic orchestral music]
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.38,0:39:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The arrow, withdrawn from its passage,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.36,0:40:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poised to strike again.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.62,0:40:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her pain indistinguishable from pleasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.16,0:40:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gasping woman, levitating,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:09.62,0:40:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,defying gravity on rippling cushions of stone.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.26,0:40:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, who was it, then?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:22.21,0:40:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That gave Bernini the chance to portray a saint in a way no one else had ever dared?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.28,0:40:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't imagine a more respectable patron than Cardinal Federico Cornaro,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.10,0:40:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who came from an old aristocratic clan
Dialogue: 0,0:40:42.77,0:40:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that wanted to build a family chapel in the Church of Santa Maria Della Vittoria.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.44,0:40:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would have known about St. Teresa of Avila.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.49,0:40:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone did.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:59.12,0:41:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She'd died in her native Spain, in 1582.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.21,0:41:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there was something - many things actually -
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.06,0:41:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which made Teresa an awkward fit for sainthood.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.65,0:41:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not least, her levitations.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.83,0:41:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> A rapture came over me so suddenly, it almost lifted me out of myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.50,0:41:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard these words, "Now, I want you to speak not with men, but with angels."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.30,0:41:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not surprising, then, that of all the modern saints it was Teresa who still had no chapel devoted to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.41,0:42:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Cornari dynasty, who were patrons of her austere order of nuns,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.03,0:42:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Barefoot Carmelites,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.09,0:42:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jumped in and presented Bernini with the biggest challenge of his career,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.23,0:42:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also the chance for a spectacular comeback.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.36,0:42:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the most daring drama of the body that he, or any other sculptor in the history of art,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.24,0:42:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had ever conceived.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.09,0:42:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much less executed.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.60,0:42:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini would certainly have known about St. Teresa.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.18,0:42:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her autobiography was a best-seller in Catholic Rome.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:43.76,0:42:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like everyone else, he would have been startled by the earthy directness of her story,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.34,0:42:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but above all, he would have been electrified by those moments
Dialogue: 0,0:42:54.59,0:42:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which Teresa, in the most graphic words imaginable,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.64,0:43:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,describes what happens to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.78,0:43:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Very close to me, an angel appeared in human form.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.12,0:43:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his hands I saw a large golden spear,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.16,0:43:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at its iron tip there seemed to be a point of fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:27.03,0:43:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt as if he'd plunged these into my heart several times,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.60,0:43:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it penetrated all the way to my entrails.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.19,0:43:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out with it,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.79,0:43:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it left me totally inflamed, with a great love for God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.91,0:44:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pain was so severe that it made me moan several times.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.86,0:44:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if there was one thing that Bernini was not,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.62,0:44:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was crude.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.28,0:44:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He understood perfectly well that when Teresa wrote of her raptures
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.59,0:44:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she meant the longing of her soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.12,0:44:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a consummated union with God.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.17,0:44:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the way she wrote about it, that made it seem as if her soul and her body
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.99,0:44:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:43.21,0:44:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of Bernini's greatest body dramas had featured figures twisting in ascent.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.12,0:44:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Persephone's flight from Pluto,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.09,0:45:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daphne rising to the sky as if to escape stony doom,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.32,0:45:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it was time for him to make Teresa levitate.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.48,0:45:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time, not an escape from penetration, but in craving for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:17.21,0:45:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was time to forget about euphemisms.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.13,0:45:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only way that Bernini could possibly communicate the flood of her sensation
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.75,0:45:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to make visible what he knew of bodily ecstasy.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.24,0:45:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The face of a women at the height of sexual euphoria.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:38.48,0:45:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as if he's turning his own intimate knowledge of carnal sin
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.47,0:45:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into carnal blessing.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.16,0:45:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, of course, this isn't the real Teresa.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.05,0:45:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Middle aged nun, rising up her cell wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:53.24,0:45:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with sisters hanging onto her habit.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:56.64,0:46:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, this woman is unforgettably beautiful!
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.10,0:46:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A match for the exquisite seraph angel lover.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:07.80,0:46:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are in a way - a couple.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.80,0:46:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Smiley Face is pointing his arrow not at her breast at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:15.20,0:46:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather, lower down the torso.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.38,0:46:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how to make visible both their union and the tide of engulfing feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:46:32.26,0:46:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,washing through Teresa?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.22,0:46:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here, Bernini has the crucial insight of the whole piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.31,0:46:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He turns her body inside out.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.36,0:46:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that her covering, her habit -
Dialogue: 0,0:46:47.76,0:46:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the symbol of chastity and containment,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.78,0:46:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes a representation of what's going on inside her.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.30,0:47:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the accomplice of her helpless dissolution into liquid bliss.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.72,0:47:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is, in fact, the climax itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.31,0:47:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A storm surge of churning sensation,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.02,0:47:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cresting and falling as if the model had been molten.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.48,0:47:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these billows pour themselves from the smiling angel
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.54,0:47:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directly into Teresa's robe,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.94,0:47:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they join an ocean of heaving waves
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.57,0:47:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the folds into hollows and crevices like surf breaking on a shore.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.82,0:48:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing furtive about any of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.88,0:48:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini wants us to look, and look hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.76,0:48:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much that he surrounds the performance with an audience,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.36,0:48:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members of the Cornari family,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.70,0:48:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some watching the show, some chatting about what it might mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.70,0:48:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's every kind of show lighting -
Dialogue: 0,0:48:26.38,0:48:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fake sunbeams, hidden lights at the back.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.53,0:48:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as Teresa climbs to her heights,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.26,0:48:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the earth really does move!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.81,0:48:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:43.06,0:48:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ground is opening and out pop the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.32,0:48:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is shaking and quaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.87,0:48:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the columns of the little chapel.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.19,0:49:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here Bernini adds the coup de grace to all those critics who said he couldn't do architecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.67,0:49:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least Borromini, who specialized in weird counterintuitive bulges and curves.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:13.97,0:49:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Right," said Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.71,0:49:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'll build you a temple that not just curves and bulges,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.06,0:49:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but actually explodes through its columns from the sheer uncontainable force of the drama
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.01,0:49:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going on inside."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.07,0:49:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most ambitious thing he'd ever attempted, the bell tower of St. Peter's,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.19,0:49:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had come crashing down in ignominious failure.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.64,0:49:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it was time for Teresa to rise up
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.26,0:49:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carry with her the resurrected reputation of the disgraced cavaliere, Bernini.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:02.100,0:50:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you feel him, when he's done, standing back and saying, "Right. Top that."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.65,0:50:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one ever could.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.77,0:50:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Cornaro loved their chapel.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.62,0:50:32.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12,000 scudi. No problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.77,0:50:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worth every scudo.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.98,0:50:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Word got round.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.55,0:50:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dazzler was back.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.41,0:50:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the sour old pope, Innocent X,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.09,0:50:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to sweeten on Bernini
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.34,0:50:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Borromini's skulked unhappily through the Vatican corridors.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.13,0:51:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not that Borromini never gets commissions from the pope again,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.40,0:51:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just that it was Bernini who triumphed.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:10.00,0:51:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So wherever you go in Rome now,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.18,0:51:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're really in the Cavaliere city.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.24,0:51:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you approach St. Peter's over the Ponte Sant'Angelo
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.03,0:51:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're in the company of Bernini's angels.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:31.92,0:51:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even though he was denied his bell towers at St. Peter's,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:35.61,0:51:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he did something much better.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.28,0:51:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Colonnades, which lead us towards the great church,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.84,0:51:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its arms gathering believers to the bosom of the faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:55.36,0:51:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside the church, past the baldacchino,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:58.50,0:52:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're drawn towards Bernini's great lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.93,0:52:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Holy Spirit, at the seat of St. Peter.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.50,0:52:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Popes came and went, but Bernini endured.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.65,0:52:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gave up sinning, became a model Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:19.64,0:52:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fathered 11 children, never strayed again, they said.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:27.22,0:52:30.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're told that when he was troubled,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.11,0:52:34.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he'd be found at the Church of Santa Maria Della Vittoria,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:34.46,0:52:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,praying before his shrine to St. Teresa.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.18,0:52:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what of the others in this story?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.20,0:52:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Costanza with the cut-up face
Dialogue: 0,0:52:47.83,0:52:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually got out of jail, with the help of her long-suffering husband.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.17,0:53:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Borromini went on to become the great master builder,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:02.25,0:53:06.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of evermore eccentric and brilliant churches.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.11,0:53:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the end he never really felt he got true recognition,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.20,0:53:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he never got over Bernini's comeback.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.68,0:53:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eaten up by jealousy and disappointment,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.54,0:53:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he ended up by committing suicide.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.41,0:53:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what of brother Luigi?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:27.69,0:53:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he returned to Rome after his exile
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.74,0:53:34.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deep into his sixties he was at it again,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.100,0:53:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this time caught in flagrante delicto in, guess where?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:39.20,0:53:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The precincts of the holy Church of St. Peter's.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.57,0:53:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where, according to court records,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.26,0:53:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was arrested for acts of violent sodomy.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:55.25,0:54:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To clear the family name and secure a papal pardon for his brother,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:00.35,0:54:04.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bernini created this - the blessed Ludovica Albertoni.