Excommunicated by her father's successor as Pope, weary of her husband's infidelities, the infamous Lucrezia Borgia finds passion with Giovanni, a young soldier she meets while both are in disguise. As war looms, the inexorable law of unintended consequences reveals a long-buried secret that tests everyone in the play. Sharp, satiric, full of hot-blooded characters, David Copelin's "Bella Donna" creates a dramatic world where religious faith takes surprising forms, lies fuel history, and gossip might as well be truth.