- Vannozza Catanei: Des Prez, if you repeat one word of what you hear, your tongue will join your eyes.
- Josquin Des Prez: [lowers his blind eyes in deference]
- Isabella Matuzzi: The last time I saw you, you were but a cherub. Now look at you. I must seem a haggard crow. My name is Isabella Matuzzi.
- Lucrezia Borgia: I am sorry, I do not recognize you, or your name.
- Isabella Matuzzi: I am your sister - half sister. When papa was with your mother, he was with mine.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Is this true?
- Vannozza Catanei: Yes.
- Lucrezia Borgia: I am constantly learning new secrets about my family! My uncle is my father. I have an older sister. When they say I am a child who knows nothing, that is because they tell me nothing.
- Isabella Matuzzi: Consider this. Now you have a sister who knows what you go through better than a priest.
- [in a whisper]
- Isabella Matuzzi: Or a mother.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Do you still see papa?
- Isabella Matuzzi: The last time I saw him was around the last time I saw you. And then he was done with me.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Some times I wish he would shun *me*.
- Isabella Matuzzi: Do not say that! To be cast out from Rodrigo Borgia heart...
- Lucrezia Borgia: He uses me.
- Isabella Matuzzi: To be a woman is to be used.
- Vannozza Catanei: You said you were barren. But you do have a son. You lied.
- Isabella Matuzzi: To win the argument. I am at heart still a Borgia.
- [last lines]
- Giulia Farnese: [holding her son] One last look. I shall never travel this far from Rome again.