Borgia (TV Series)

Palm Sunday (2013)

Mark Ryder: Cesare Borgia

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• [first lines] 

  Cesare Borgia : [to the people]  We've all experienced great tragedy these past ten days, as the deluge claimed homes and shops, loved ones and neighbors.

  Peasant : All except you, Borgia! Safe behind high walls on this hill while we, we sleep down at the river's edge in huts, up to our assholes in mud!

  Old Woman : And a monster prowls the shores!

  Cesare Borgia : [to his advisor]  A monster?

  Agapito Geraldini : A mule's head on the body of a whore. One human arm, the other's an elephant's trunk. On its back, the bearded face of an old man. A tail like a neck, ending with a snake's head. Scaly limbs. It's left foot like a hoof, the right an eagle's talon.

• Girolamo Savonarola : I am overjoyed to have my faith tested. I accept your challenge. But if I am to stand trial, Borgia, then so should you.

  Cesare Borgia : I have no reason...

  Girolamo Savonarola : If my faith is proven false, that does not prove your faith true. So, I challenge you. Eminence, in the name of Pope Alexander, to verify your righteousness. Or has the Borgia bull been castrated?

  Cesare Borgia : You think me a boy of privilege, that I do not know pain. I have been tested by many, more powerful than you, yet here I stand. I have risen from the flames before, and I will rise in them again, a phoenix.

  Girolamo Savonarola : Phoenix is a myth.

  Cesare Borgia : And so may be the fires of hell.