- [first lines]
- Vitellozzo Vitelli: Cesare, you have no greater admirer than I, but this procrastination is unworthy of your military genius. We must advance on Florence.
- Cesare Borgia: As I said, Vitelli, I will move against the Florentines only if they reject my demands: 300,000 duckets, and the freedom to move my troops through their territories.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Tell us, why do we imprison men?
- Canale: To deprive miscreants of liberty as punishment for wrong doing.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Excellent. So then why do allow murders and thieves to leave Terranuova at night?
- Canale: Beause they have purchased passes, but must return at dawn.
- Lucrezia Borgia: In between they commit more crimes.
- Canale: Privileges have always been allowed for those who can afford them.
- Rodrigo Borgia: As of this day the sale of passes and privileges is no more. Prisoners must fear time spent in Terranuova.
- Canale: What of my income?
- Rodrigo Borgia: [raising] You dare to whine to the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church about your petty insignificant needs? We speak of justice! Be gone, Canale.
- [sitting back down]
- Rodrigo Borgia: We will close our eyes, and when we open them, you will be gone.
- [closes his eyes]
- Canale: [hesitates, then begins running down the aisle, then collapses clutching his chest]
- Gacet: [runs to him] He is dead.
- Alessandro Farnese: Revenge is not the answer.
- Giulia Farnese: Should you not be tending to your pregnant wife, Silvia? Or are you too busy following Papal commands to ever take initiative.
- Alessandro Farnese: You confused neutrality with inaction. Patience is a virtue.
- Giulia Farnese: This is our problem. You accept the status quo too easily, so we Farnese go nowhere.
- Giulia Farnese: I would never forgive myself if something happened to you and I was not here, holding your hand.
- Rodrigo Borgia: You hurt us to the quick - walking out - ignoring our missives.
- Giulia Farnese: I was wrong to do so. Mia culpa.
- Rodrigo Borgia: We are capable of forgiveness. But not of further heartbreak.
- Cesare Borgia: I must decide whether to continue my campaign or change course. Which way does fortune's wheel spin?
- Lorenz Beheim: You're a Virgo, yes?
- Cesare Borgia: I am more viper than Virgo.
- Cesare Borgia: A tyrant is beaten once he loses the enthusiasm of his subjects. That is why Darshan Bo's mutiny failed. And why Milan waivers. The Duke of Pajero can be beaten from within. I do not need 10,000 men, but only 10.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Show Giovanni Christ's mercy.
- Cesare Borgia: Christ's mercy? And where will I find that rare gem?
- Lucrezia Borgia: In your own heart - or in mine, which loves Jesus in every way.
- Cesare Borgia: Ah, so you're a Christian then?
- Lucrezia Borgia: My faith in Christ is absolute. My faith in Christianity is less certain.
- Giulia Farnese: Both you and Rodrigo broke your vows of celibacy.
- Alessandro Farnese: A wayward priest is nature's norm. But to mutilate the human body, the temple of the Holy Spirit, is a mortal sin.
- Giulia Farnese: Momma is right about the surgery.
- Alessandro Farnese: If the gelder fails, Silvia and the baby will die. Then we will have shed blood on our hands, and sin blacken our souls.
- Giulia Farnese: Where is it written that this is a sin? Why would God want us to watch those we love die without our trying to save them? Risk our souls, so what? Better that than standing at a tomb lost in regret.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Your secret plan... You plan, papa plots, and I ROT!
- Cesare Borgia: Your voice will wake the dead.
- Lucrezia Borgia: My voice once commanded the living. But now I atrophy. An unused muscle in the Borgia body.
- Giovanni Sforza: [cowering] I am lost. What will I do?
- Cesare Borgia: Since you cannot change the way you govern, Giovanni, I suggest that you change the people who you govern.
- Cesare Borgia: The cities I have conquered are like a rotted tree, riven by corrupt leadership, ready to fall with the first strike of lightening.
- Cesare Borgia: I have a surprise for you. I know you've reached the limits of your pursuit to understand the human body.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Topographic anatomy enabled me to render only man's shape, not truly examine his inner workings.
- Cesare Borgia: Well, now you can dig deeper.
- [uncovers a dismembered corpse]
- Cesare Borgia: The only piece missing is his cock.
- Leonardo da Vinci: I am most grateful. I will not squander this opportunity.
- Cesare Borgia: Do not worry. More bodies will come.
- [last lines]
- Alidosi: Mark my words, What has happened to your first husband will not happen to me. I love you, Lucrezia. But your brother's cruelty knows no bridle. If he comes at me again, I will kill him.