The Prince

The Borgias 3×10

& Machiavelli: I have no servants here nor in Rome, my lord. Florence can no longer afford them.
    Cesare: Ah. Democracy, Signor Machiavelli.
    Machiavelli: They say it has its merits.

& Machiavelli: What would you say, is the perfect crime, my lord?
    Cesare: One without a victim?
    Machiavelli: Hm. The one without a suspect.

& Rodrigo Borgia: All the same discord. Votes in conclave, bonds sold, families and factions, blade against blade. Would not it be... simpler... just to hand on the keys of St. Peter from father to son?..

& Rodrigo Borgia: Primogeniture. It’s the simplest and most efficient transfer of power known to men.

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& Rodrigo Borgia: God’s true Kingdom here on Earth.
    Cesare: Handed... from father to son.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Is God served well by the papal elections? Is the College of Cardinals mentioned in the Gospel? No. That is the past. Primogeniture is the future. Simple. Preordained.

& Cesare: What does this sword read?
    — Aut Caesar, aut nihil!

& Catherina Sforza: We’re under siege! We’re under siege already and winter is coming!

& Cesare: Where have you been?
    Micheletto: Talking to God.
    Cesare: And what did He say?
    Micheletto: Nothing.

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The Gunpowder Plot

The Borgias 3×9

& Cesare: His only code was loyalty. Can one of you replace him?.. Don’t even try to answer that.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Another relic?
    Mattai the Hebrew: Yes, Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: The head of John the Baptist, perhaps?

& Rodrigo Borgia: You will be our agent in this. You should present yourself as a Christian.
    Mattai the Hebrew: Holiness, I cannot!
    Rodrigo Borgia: You will be trading beyond Rome’s protection.
    Mattai the Hebrew: The laws of Abraham forbid...
    Rodrigo Borgia: We ask you to present yourself, not to convert. Get rid of that... Hebrew garb. Trim those locks... and pray to whom you will in private. But in public, show a little piety.

& — You are a Christian now?
    Mattai the Hebrew: No, but I can pretend. I serve a Christian pope, so you can remain a Jew.

& Alfonso: How long could we last like this?
    Lucrezia: How long does marriage last?

& Cesare: We are family; we love each other. We are Spanish; we embrace. Where is the scandal?

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& Rodrigo Borgia: I’ll make a Christian of you, yet.
    Mattai the Hebrew: My reward will be is being your heaven?
    Rodrigo Borgia: A Christian and an optimist. We like that!

& Cesare: I cannot understand why you don’t share my certainty.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Certainty is the preserve of youth.

& Lucrezia: Love can be another chain, mother, in this Borgia family.

& Mattai the Hebrew: ENOUGH!!! You are family, are you not? In my people, the bonds of family are unbreakable! Even stronger than family the bond between father and son. It is sacred. Adam begat Cain.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Who killed his brother, Abel.
    Mattai the Hebrew: Abraham begat Isaac.
    Cesare: Whom he offered up for sacrifice
    Mattai the Hebrew: And God stayed his hand! So, here we are. All of us, children of Abraham. So I ask this father to embrace his son. Give him his sanction, his support, his love...
    Rodrigo Borgia: His powder, his army...
    Cesare: His love! His love.

& Mattai the Hebrew: He is made in your image.
    Rodrigo Borgia: You think we don’t know that? He is me! All the fire, and the fury, the drive! The pitiless ambition! I look into his eyes and I see myself! Do you expect me to love that?!?!

& Cesare: If we weaken now, they’ll destroy us. There is only one road, and that is forward.

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Tears of Blood

The Borgias 3×8

& Mattai the Hebrew: I am no Murano!
    Rodrigo Borgia: No?
    Mattai the Hebrew: You, on the other hand...
    Rodrigo Borgia: Careful...
    Mattai the Hebrew: I have heard the rumors, that Jewish blood runs in Borgia veins. Why do you think they hate you so?

& Pascal: «I hate and I love. Why, you may ask.
        I don’t know.
        But it happens, and I burn.»
    Micheletto: I’ve known this feeling, all my life. All my life.

& Cesare: When do you learn to write?
    Micheletto: I do not read, and I do not write. But I remember, and I copy, and I must. Before the sleight it is lost.

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& Cesare: We need a mirror... Look! This is mirror writing.
    Micheletto: You can read this?
    Cesare: These are all numbers. Each one of them has to mean something different. It must be a code. A book code, I think.

& Lucrezia: Your tone has changed, my liege.
    Fredirigo: Of course. I am king. What else did you expect?

& Cesare: Each number refers to a verse then a line, then a word. Nine, that’s verse nine. Then, «novem», another nine. That’s line nine. Seven; seventh word, line nine, verse nine. That’s «They.» Beginning... Who are «they»... I wonder? Twenty-seven, that’s verse twenty-seven. Line six, word three. «Must.» «They must...»

& Cesare: No! No more killing. You must keep on loving this boy.
    Micheletto: I can hate and love...

& Fredirigo: As a Borgia, you should have known better. Poison is your hobby, is it not?

& Rodrigo Borgia: A Borgia bull, hmm...

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Lucrezia's Gambit

The Borgias 3×7

& Micheletto: There was no affection. Affection leads to weakness. And I have no use for either.

& Lucrezia: No, my lord! I am a novice to the game of... chess. ... Oh, my lord! Now, that was unkind.
    Prince Rafael: It was meant to be. The game is cruelty personified.
    Lucrezia: Or, rather, strategy personified, my lord Rafael.

& Prince Rafael: ...and Lucrezia Borgia shall have as little influence on the court of Naples, as your queen on this board...
    Lucrezia: So, I have a king, and two bishops. And a knight. Is there a place for a pope in this game?
    Prince Rafael: There is no pope in the game of chess!
    Lucrezia: But the game of succession has a pope. Surely.

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& Cesare: There are two sights, and a double notch.
    Micheletto: Yes.
    Cesare: This your invention?
    Micheletto: I wish I could claim so, but no. Leonardo’s.

& Giulia Farnese: He hunts.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Not a good thing in a husband.
    Giulia Farnese: You hunted.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Rarely. And only with you.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Is he deranged?
    Giulia Farnese: No, Your Holiness. He’s a poet.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Poet. So... deranged.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Who are We to trust, if not Our family? Whom are we to rely on?
    Cesare: You can trust me, Father.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Oh! We can? Why?
    Cesare: Because you have no alternative.

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Relics

The Borgias 3×6

& Rodrigo Borgia: Next year, the year of our Lord,1500, will be a year of Jubilee. Jubilate — jubilation. And we would have it with the greatest, the most glorious the Holiest year of jubilee in the history of our Holy Mother Church.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Let us meet with the Jews.

& Cesare: You’re all second sons Bastard sons. Fathers who deny you, your rightful estates. I offer you a chance. To carv out your own faith. To damn your fathers to the past. Or to hell. Ride with me, my bastard army. To the only future allow to us.

& Mattai: We poor Jews have little in the way of coin. But we are rich in history. And we would like to show our gratitude to Your Holiness, in which ever way God allow us.
    Rodrigo Borgia: If...
    Mattai: We can gain entry into Rome.

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& Cardinal Sforza: I detect a note of irritation, Cardinal. If I may be so precipite even jealousy.
    Cardinal Costanzo: No Cardinal. Nearly of caution. Jews have sold Christians, dart relics for centuries. Why, Pope Innocent was offered the Ark of the Covenant by an itinerant rabbi from Salamanca? We are children, to that guile, Cardinal. Innocence, like our Savior himself.

& Rodrigo Borgia: You say it trembles.
    Mattai: So legend has it, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Or does it just «seem» to tremble?

& Rodrigo Borgia: I think we will have to make do with «seems». Our Holy Mother Church is driven by belief, and we choose to believe that this is the spear of Longinus. So that you and your tribe, may make your lives here in Rome. Now, what are the gifts do you have to bring us?

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The Wolf and the Lamb

The Borgias 3×5

& Rodrigo Borgia: Scandal may be the prerogative of kings... But we are the Pope of Rome. We have a church to run.

& Roberto: Tell us what you are proposing.
    Catherina Sforza: A union. Of Italian families. Vitelli, Colonna, Baglioni, Orsini. Like the fasci of the Caesars. Together, we would be unbreakable.
    Roberto: And all that. Under you? A woman?
    Catherina Sforza: I propose myself. Feel free to propose yourself, Roberto.

& Cesare: Does Florence have an interest in France?
    Machiavelli: Florence has an interest in everything.

& Cesare: Do you have advice on anything other than presentation?
    Machiavelli: But presentation is everything.

& Charlotte D’Albret: And what do you demand of marriage, Cesare Borgia?
    Cesare: A title. An heir. A dowry.
    Charlotte D’Albret: What about everlasting love?
    Cesare: Of course. That too. How could I forget?

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& Rodrigo Borgia: So what is to be done?
    Doctor: For her body, or her mind?
    Rodrigo Borgia: For her soul.
    Doctor: Rest. Tranquillity. Prayer.

& Queen: You came like a Greek, bearing gifts. May that shrew you are to marry suffocate you with her bile. Mayshe bear you a dwarf, a succubus. And may you rot in that circle of hell reserved for the Borgia family.
    Cesare: There is no hell. No heaven either. This world is what we make of it. Forgive me, if my purpose here was to remind you of that fact... Bitch.

& Micheletto: You wish to do some cooking?
    Lucrezia: Call it husbandry.

& Archbishop D’Amboise: You were a Cardinal once...
    Cesare: I was a bishop, too.
    Archbishop D’Amboise: And why the change?
    Cesare: I lost my faith.
    Archbishop D’Amboise: In God?
    Cesare: I woke up one morning and I realized... He is not in His heaven. And the world will not change, if I do nothing to change it.

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Σ All is good? Not for long to enjoy it.

The Banquet of Chestnuts

The Borgias 3×4

& Cesare: Are they competent? Do any of them know their duties?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Their only duty is loyalty, to us. The rest, they can learn as they go.

& Lucrezia: Maybe our love has to be more of the soul...
    Alfonso: Like... brother and sister?
    Lucrezia: No. Not like that.

& Rodrigo Borgia: We’re so... utterly alone.

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& Cesare: Naples was and always will be an infected swamp.

& Giulia Farnese: Your fear of treachery. A compromised man cannot plan treason. The sword hangs upon his head day and night. He never knows when it may fall. But if he is compromised and weak that’s when he’s loyal.

& Catherina Sforza: Let me ask you a this. What compromises a man more than anything else?
    Rufio: His prick?

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Siblings

The Borgias 3×3

& Lucrezia: Rome is the peak of the world, and we are at its pinnacle. And yet still no matter which way I turn, I still can’t seem to find that will make me truly happy!

& Rodrigo Borgia: Your sister marries Naples... Why do not you marry France?

& Vanozza: Sould we arrange King Ferdinand’s retinues and family on the one hand and ours on the other, or should we take the fashionable route and let guests to intermingle?

& Rodrigo Borgia: Do you not see that even the impression of weakness begets weakness?

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& Rodrigo Borgia: We had almost lost hope that you will kneel before us.
    Catherina Sforza: I bend my kneel to no man. Unless I choose to.

& Lucrezia: Am I so hard to love?

& Lucrezia: Only a Borgia, it seems, can truly love a Borgia.

& Lucrezia: They already whispered about us. Throughout the whole Italy. Why did I deny the pleasure for which we have already accused?

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The Purge

The Borgias 3×2

& Rufio: I am the black heart of a Borgia nightmare.

& Cardinal Sforza: Who else lies under suspicion?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Everyone. Anybody who wears a red hat. Interrogate them all.
    Cardinal Sforza: I am hardly an inquisitor.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Then become one. We will cleanse this Vatican of ours of anyone who even thinks to question our fitness for this most holy of offices.
    Cardinal Sforza: Is thought to be a crime now?

& Rodrigo Borgia: Begin with De Luca. Threaten him with loss of office and banishment and— he will sing madrigals.
    Cardinal Sforza: And if he doesn’t?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Take him to the Castel Sant Angelo. Acquaint him with the instruments of torture.
    Cardinal Sforza: You cannot torture a prince of the church.
    Rodrigo Borgia: I know that. You know that. But imagination is a great persuader. He saw Savonarola burn. He’ll soon begin to sing — if he hasn’t already — like a nightingale.
    Cardinal Sforza: And then?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Then— seize his estates, strip his red hat. Banish him to some hermitage. And arrest all those he has implicated. And start the process again. We are in a new world, Cardinal.

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& Cardinal Sforza: This Vatican of ours has changed... forever. Follow me.
    Cardinal De Luca: Follow you where?
    Cardinal Sforza: Into the future.

& Micheletto: You are in the house of lies.
    Cardinal De Luca: The devil’s house?
    Micheletto: Think of them as your friends.
    Cardinal De Luca: The rack? The iron maiden?
    Micheletto: They have a message for you.
    Cardinal De Luca: You have used them, I am sure.
    Micheletto: I have suffered on them. Your inquisitor believes that they elicit the truth. They do not. A man will say anything on the rack to make it end.
    Cardinal De Luca: Then why am I here?
    Micheletto: To learn to lie. To say whatever is needed. To avoid their embrace.

& Cesare: Is this a game?
    Lucrezia: It is a game of want and wanting.

& Vanozza: Perhaps you’ll find, as I have that... love deepens, regardless of whether you share the same bed.

& Vanozza: You must state your terms. Negotiate your exit. What would you have from him, if not his passion?

& Rodrigo Borgia: As you sink into the darkness— call out His name, see if He replies. Or if you must hear the eternal silence.

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The Face of Death

The Borgias 3×1

& Cesare: What can you do?
    Physician: Nothing. His soul is already departing this world.
    Cesare: His soul does not depart until I give it leave!

& Lucrezia: Force it in until he can bear no more. And if he vomits, force more. You understand me?
    Physician: But, this is witchcraft.
    Lucrezia: This is physick!

& — Stop! This is the house of God!
    Cesare: And God is angry.

& Vanozza: I’m not pope. Neither are you. Without him, what becomes of us?

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& Rodrigo Borgia: I saw the face of death.
    Cesare: Well, you’re not dead, Father. You live.
    Rodrigo Borgia: For how long?
    Cesare: A day and a night.

& Rodrigo Borgia: I saw the face of death... And I was afraid. I am so afraid.
    Vanozza: Don’t be. It would take more than cantarella to fell an ox like you.
    Rodrigo Borgia: No, you don’t understand. I didn’t see the face of God. He was not there.

& Vanozza: This night is gone, it is daylight. Open your eyes. We’re not safe.
    Rodrigo Borgia: No. We are at war.

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The Confession

The Borgias 2×10

& Lucrezia: You would turn down the pope’s own daughter for me? Why?
    Prince Alfonso d’Aragona: Because I have never known a woman so lovely.
    Lucrezia: Poor boy...

& Cesare: Rome needs this confession!
    Machiavelli: Then... give it to them.

& Lucrezia: Yes, I will marry him. He has all the sweetness of an apple on the tree... I will marry him tomorrow if you wish it.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Oh!
    Lucrezia: You may kiss me... On the cheek.
    Rodrigo Borgia: What a most charming and welcome eventuation!

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& Rodrigo Borgia: Let him burn.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Tell me your sins.
    Cesare: It is this, and only this: that I have taken upon my head the act that none other would dare commit, though its commission benefits all.

& Cesare: Life does not hold its breath for one man’s grief.

& Rodrigo Borgia: You are too much like me. A man feels less... favour for his own image reflected.

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World of Wonders

The Borgias 2×9

& Vanozza: Rodrigo, she will love whom she chooses. She is a Borgia.

& Cesare: The people of Florence had a good life. How can this Savonarola rob them of all this and yet still have them clinging to his every word?
    Machiavelli: If you can understand that, Your Eminence, then you will have the key to bring down the man.
    Cesare: Break the spell, break the man...

& Machiavelli: Savonarola understands that what haunts a man’s mind in the night is what rules him. He trades in the fear of hell.

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& Juan: Everything I do is for the family. Were it not for our father’s affection of your bastard son, I’d have tossed that piglet into the Tiber at birth. That’s the only baptism it deserves.
    Lucrezia: We are all bastards. You, me, our brothers. We are all bastards.
    Juan: Yes... Perhaps. But we are Borgia bastards. And there, dear Sis, lies the difference.

& Cesare: Only God forgives. We’re Borgias! We never forgive.

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Truth and Lies

The Borgias 2×8

& Rodrigo Borgia: ...what should have been a glorious victory is an ignominious defeat.

& Rodrigo Borgia: You will return... to Florence once more and it will be as if God’s vicar himself stands before him.
    Cesare: If it is your wish, Holy Father.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Not ours alone, Cesare... Remember, it is God’s work that we do.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Somewhere in here, it is written that we have the power to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon this friar. A God-given power to condemn him to Hell. A ritual... Ah!

& Doctor: Relief is at hand. Here is a medicament much appreciated by our Roman ancestors, an extraction of homegrown efflorescence.
    Juan: Tell me what it does.
    Doctor: It has long been known to relieve pain... and it also calms disturbances of the bowel.
    Juan: And let us not forget my privy member.
    Doctor: I have often thought that a fortune might be made by its export...
    Juan: What’s it called?
vDoctor: It’s commonly called opium. Uh, sometimes it is referred to as the tears of the poppy.
    Juan: How very poetic.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Do you know what is more poisonous than failure in war or politics? Ridicule!

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& Della Rovere: If goodness places itself in the service of badness, does it still deserve the name?..

& Lucrezia: I cannot decide.
    Vanozza: Choose.
    Lucrezia: This is torrone with hazelnuts. And this is canditi.
    Vanozza: Yes.
    Lucrezia: I love them both.
    Vanozza: Then which one will you eat?
    Lucrezia: I don’t know. ....
    Vanozza: You are a Borgia. You can have both, Lucrezia Borgia.
    Lucrezia: Now I see the game. It is a game of love— and lust.
    Vanozza: And marriage.
    Lucrezia: Which is Raffaello and which is Calvino?
    Vanozza: It doesn’t matter. That’s the point of the game. Have both. Marry one and have the other. Have them one at a time or two together, it’s no matter. After a while you will tire of both and take a lover... Lucrezia, look at me. Look me in the eye. Eat... And now the other.
    Lucrezia: Mm. Delicious.
    Vanozza: There. You see. There’s room for two.

& Lucrezia: Torrone morbido or canditi. Which would you have?
    Raffaello di Genova: I like them both.
    Lucrezia: Ah. So have both.

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The Siege at Forli

The Borgias 2×7

& Rodrigo Borgia: So, now to our gift. Mmm. What have we here?.. Turds? You travel all the way to our ancestral homeland and back again to bring us turds?
    Juan: Smell them.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Why should we smell a turd?
    Juan: They are called cigarros. They are an exotic creation from the New World. I will happily demonstrate at your Holiness’s leisure.

& Rodrigo Borgia: So, we take a turd in our hand...
    Juan: Cigarro.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Yes, cigarro. Then what?
    Juan: You put it in your mouth.
    Rodrigo Borgia: What? All of it?

& Rodrigo Borgia: Ah! We are on fire!
    Juan: One more time...
    Rodrigo Borgia: What is this called?
    Juan: Smoking!
    Rodrigo Borgia: Smoking? Indeed, well, one is smoking.

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& Lucrezia: What is that in your mouth?
    Rodrigo Borgia: It’s a cigarro.
    Lucrezia: Hm. Not a turd?
    Rodrigo Borgia: No!
    Lucrezia: It smells like one.
Ω Exactly!

& Doctor: Your salvation may lie in this, uh, modest instrument. Allow me to demonstrate... This is inserted into the privy member. There will be pain. Once it is in place, I push on this gizmet, here... revealing the umbrella-like apparatus that does the work. The instrument is withdrawn and thus it will scrape clear the pus and discharge upon its exit. Are you ready?
    Juan: No.

& Micheletto: God’s children are knocking at the door.
    Machiavelli: God will follow later.
    Cesare: Would you care to answer?
    Micheletto: No. Would you?
    Cesare: No.
    Machiavelli: I hear no knocking.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Your indecision is a gift to our enemies. A folly! This could cost us our lives, our home, our all! You are marrying for all of us, Lucrezia, not just yourself. For family!

& Lucrezia: What more is to be said? Sell me to the highest bidder.

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Day of Ashes

The Borgias 2×6

& Rodrigo Borgia: To whom does the pope confess, oh, Lord?..

& Rodrigo Borgia: Who will hear his sins, wash them clean, so that he may live again in Your favour? Ah... The great silence.

& Savonarola: Tell him my work is here, ridding Florence of its sodomites and blasphemers. And my work only will be ended when the last sodomite is burning in Hell.

& Savonarola: No man can put a price on salvation.

& Rodrigo Borgia: ...And save your thoughts. Say nothing.
    Cesare: I haven’t uttered a word!
    Rodrigo Borgia: No, but we can hear you thinking.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Our son Cesare... he had an unfortunate accident.
    Vanozza: Cesare?!
    Rodrigo Borgia: No, Giovanni Sforza. He fell onto a knife that... Cesare happened to be holding.

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& Rodrigo Borgia: He must be silenced. We charge you with this task. This will require all your patience. You will travel to Florence and you will ban him from preaching the word of God.
    Cesare: He will laugh in my face.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Of course. Then we will charge him with heresy.
    Cesare: He will laugh in your face.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Of course. Then we will excommunicate him.
    Cesare: He will deny your right to do so.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Of course. And then... we will burn him. Vengeance, you see, can wait... A lifetime if necessary.

& Vanozza: Oh, and he has a dog. A gift.
    Lucrezia: A dog?
    Vanozza: For you.
    Lucrezia: A man of immense wealth, you say, and he brings a dog?

& Rodrigo Borgia: What is your verdict?
    Lucrezia: No. That’s no to the doge’s nephew. And yes to the dog... Wait, on second thoughts, it’s no to them both. Man and dog.

& Cesare: Trust me. My name is Borgia.

& Rodrigo Borgia: ...And there will be flourishing once again in your fair Florence a bank— but this time a Vatican bank.
    Piero de Medici: What does the pope know of banking?
    Rodrigo Borgia: What the pope does not know... Piero de Medici will teach him.

& Lucrezia: We’ve already seen five. This will be number six. At first it was a distraction; now it’s a chore.
    Vanozza: Then marry one of them and be done with it. Have a bed chamber of your own and put a strong lock on the door.

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The Choice

The Borgias 2×5

& Lucrezia: It is ingenious, when you think of it.
    Vanozza Borgia: St. Peter’s?
    Lucrezia: The Church. Like an enormous bank machine. The faithful pay to maintain it in its magnificent splendor. This theatre of redemption. The greater the display, the more they gather from all corners of Christendom. The more they pay.

& Rodrigo Borgia: To Florence— and its heretic, Savonarola!

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& Rodrigo Borgia: Know your enemy, Cardinal. Know him better than your friend.

& Machiavelli: And how can you buy one who would outlaw trade itself?
    Rodrigo Borgia: You offer him something that money cannot buy. Heaven itself.

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Stray Dogs

The Borgias 2×4

& Cesare: You have bad news?
    Micheletto: Is there any other kind, Your Eminence?

& Cesare: She has released my heart... of all emotions but one.... Vengeance.
    Micheletto: Vengeance is sweet.

& Rodrigo Borgia: If the two armies batter each other to death, as the lawyers often say, cui bono?
    Cesare: Who benefits?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Mm. A weakened Milan, a weakened Venice, a weakened Mantua— has to be worth a weekend in Tuscany, surely?

& Rodrigo Borgia: We know little of war, but much of vengeance. And the one salient point is this: vengeance is patient. It can wait a lifetime if necessary. Because it never dies.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Our distrust of the vice chancellor is bottomless. As of the entire curia. Which is why we thought we would leave them in the safe hands of that one blessed person in whom we can utterly, utterly place our trust...
    Lucrezia: ...Show me your hands, Cesare.

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& Lucrezia: You may sit, cardinals.
    Cesare: May I sit too, Sister?
    Lucrezia: Indeed, Cardinal Borgia.

& Della Rovere: Have you heard? He’s left his daughter in the chair of St. Peter’s.

& Rodrigo Borgia: Do you pledge your arms to the service of God, and his vicar on earth?
    Francesco Gonzaga: I do, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: And do you promise to fight in His name and His name alone?
    Francesco Gonzaga: I do, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: And do you pledge the spoils of battle in its entirety to His Holy Mother Church?
    Francesco Gonzaga: ......
    Rodrigo Borgia: God’s blessing comes with a price...
    Francesco Gonzaga: ...I-do, Your Holiness.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Then you have our blessing.

& — Your salts of mercury, your Highness.

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The Beautiful Deception

The Borgias 2×3

& Vanozza Borgia: Regrets are part of life. Regret is part of Rome.

& Cesare: You have a plan?
    Rodrigo Borgia: We fight fire with fire.

& Cesare: Is nothing in this damned city what it seems?

& Rodrigo Borgia: Tell that envoy that Rome is more than just her walls. She is the Eternal City and she will not be raped and deflowered. Tell him Rodrigo Borgia spake these words.

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& General: Do I give the signal, my liege?
    King Charles VIII: Do I look like a fool, General?
    General: No, my liege.
    King Charles VIII: We ride on past.

& Cesare: We should melt down that bell, Holy Father.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Why melt it down?
    Cesare: To make cannon. Real cannon, this time.

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Paolo

The Borgias 2×2

& Borgia: We had a dream... We were a trinity upon this bed last night.
    Giulia Farnese: What if there was no dream?.. And we were three indeed.

& Giulia Farnese: Shall I be whipped for my offence?
    Borgia: You should be bound and whipped and ravaged.
    Giulia Farnese: When?
    Borgia: Often.

& Paolo: There is such wealth in evidence here, my lady. How could anybody starve?
    Beatrice: There is wealth, of course. But we starve. Whilst Lucrezia Borgia dines on a silver plate. With a fork. You have heard of a fork, Paolo?
    Paolo: No, my lady.
    Beatrice: It is all the rage now. And I’ll bet Lucrezia Borgia dines with a fork of solid gold.

& Borgia: Well, riddle me this. When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

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& Borgia: We will have you, Giulia Farnese, go through their curatorial accounts. And ensure that money for the poor actually reaches the poor.
    Giulia Farnese: Will I have your full authority?
    Borgia: You will. And we shall set ourselves another task... To rid this city of its infestation of pigeons!

& Borgia: You have been in charge of the office of public works for how many years?
    Cardinal Versucci: As long as I have been cardinal, Your Holiness.
    Borgia: Ah. Two decades, then. After which time the orphans of Rome find themselves destitute, and the cardinal has built himself how many palaces?
    Cardinal Versucci: Three..?
    Borgia: You see the irony there?

& Giulia Farnese: There is a new method, Cardinal, devised by the Florentine bankers... It is called double-entry book keeping. It proves a valuable tool in tracing all missing funds.

& Della Rovere: Forgive me, Sister. Sometimes goodness needs the help of a little badness.

& Vanozza: Your father is the pope of love.

& Micheletto: Tell me. Love. What does it feel like?
    Paolo: It hurts.
    Micheletto: Ah, like life. Yes?.. Like Micheletto.

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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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