Forgiving Rome

Two matched souls born on the same exact date, one in France, one in Italy. Distant cousins meet when they are both 26 years old. Giuseppe, from France, is a soldier and also a Marquis with extensive wealth and privilege. Raphaello, the poor relation, is a quiet and reserved painters apprentice recently returned from a five-year servitude under a mean master painter in Venice, believing himself finally free of it. Both young men were called home when their father died, Giuseppe from a war with the Sforza dynasty in Milan, and Raphaello from Venice. Their mothers, second cousins, are of Medici heritage and watch as their two sons form a strong and neverending friendship that will span centuries. Again, two matched souls hundreds of years later, unite in the Vatican in a chance meeting that will change their lives forever. All engineered. All arranged. We cloned them, now let us see what happens.