The fifteenth century. "You are a contemporary, then, of our Mr. Borgia," Joss points out. "Did you know him in life or after the change?" He's digging, of course, but he really is genuinely curious about the usually inscrutable Cesare Borgia, a man he has known and respected for a great many centuries but never quite considered a friend.

"I confess that I was not paying very much attention to the goings-on in Rome at the time of his father's papacy. Our own English feuds were far too interesting."