The second declares Giovanni Borgia instead to be the son of Pope Alexander VI himself and runs: "Since you bear this deficiency not from the said duke, but from us and the said woman, which we for good reasons did not desire to express in the preceding writing". The pope was forbidden by canon law to publicly recognize children and did not wish that Giovanni Borgia should suffer in his inheritance as a consequence.
The second declaration states that Giovanni Borgia is the son of Pope Alexander VI, and it explains: "Since you bear this deficiency not from the said duke, but from us and the woman we did not wish to mention in the previous writing". The pope was prohibited by canon law from publicly acknowledging children and did not want Giovanni Borgia to suffer as a result.