The Borgia Bull

The Borgias 2×1

& Lucrezia: This child, Holy Father, lacks a father. Or one appropriate to your station.
    Borgia: And for the moment you have no need of a marital alliance.
    Lucrezia: But if the need arose, you would marry me to the moon.
    Borgia: What? Does the sun threaten our papacy now?
    Lucrezia: No, Father. Mars is in a unique alignment with Saturn. The heavens beam down upon us. For the moment. But the day might come.

& Borgia: We would have the ambassador gently remind the king that Naples has the habit of rejecting those who would conquer it. The Moor, the Turk, the Norman... Why should the French be any different?

& Juan: Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord...
    Borgia: Ah. Vengeance will be ours.

& Borgia: Will you stop this discord! We are family! We are one! And we will only triumph as one!

& Borgia: For we have a second task. It is called renewal. We would restore Rome to its former glory. Under the Borgias it will shine as it did beneath the Caesars...

& Borgia: We must preserve these. For posterity.
    Giulia Farnese: Not for pleasure?
    Borgia: No. You alone are our pleasure.
    Giulia Farnese: Indeed.

& Cesare: Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

& Lucrezia: There is one your heart must find room for, Cesare. One you must love before you can love anyone.
    Cesare: And that one would be?..
    Lucrezia: Yourself.

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& Giulia Farnese: What is that?
    Borgia: Apis. Sacred bull of the goddess Isis. Could be the Borgia Bull... Some say that Isis is the predecessor of our own Blessed Virgin Mary.
    Giulia Farnese: We are all to worship Isis now?
    Borgia: No. But we could find a way to worship more like the ancient. With joy.

& Giulia Farnese: You would give them bread and circuses again?
    Borgia: No, no. We would give them what is lacking in their lives... Joy.

& Vittoria: I am as yet a mere artisan. Any moment I can snatch to perfect my line, I do.
    Borgia: You are apprenticed?
    Vittoria: To the master of Bramante, Your Holiness. But I am as yet the least of his pupils.

& Borgia: You’re very young.
    Vittoria: But youth fades.
    Borgia: Beauty doesn’t.

& Vittoria: I beg you, my lady!
    Giulia Farnese: Yes. You may yet beg. And I am your lady. At least the pope is not tempted with the sin of sodomy.

& Juan: Who are you tonight, Father?
    Borgia: We are Janus. The guardian of the keys of Rome. Of the gateway to paradise.
    Juan: So there’s no pope here tonight?
    Borgia: The pope has have two faces, my son. One looks to the future and the other to the past. We are the gatekeeper to both.

& Giulia Farnese: You are now Aphrodite.
    Vittoria: Lover of Hermes.
    Giulia Farnese: Mother of Hermaphrodite.

& King Charles VIII: It almost harmonizes. Sing, sing.

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