I cannot get over the many ways the writers got court politics completely wrong in this serial. Whilst I understand the scheming power hungry uncle and the noble hearted-but-naive heir is a common trope, largely from hamlet, what this serial (and many other adaptations) gets wrong is the way that these people would have been required to interact with the larger scale of court politics. For example we are supposed to believe that both Frederico and Giuliano gave the doge of Venice (aka the most important guy in Venice at the time) the cold shoulder, and multiple members of the nobility were killed in a party held in their castle, and these actions would hold zero political repercussions. However the story itself is engaging and the visual effects are effective.