- Actor: [dramatically] Ten years have past...
- Juan Borgia Lanzol: [in the audience] Feels like longer.
- Alessandro Farnese: [choking back a laugh]
- Rodrigo Borgia: [as assassin is attempting to stab him] We forgive you.
- Rodrigo Borgia: [to guards tackling the assassin] Do not harm the man!
- Rodrigo Borgia: [then under his breath] Until we learn who hired him.
- [first lines]
- Angel: [on stage] The strange tale of Alexius, patron of pilgrims and breadless, who devoted himself to God, never seeking laud, who lived 17 years under a set of stairs.
- Alessandro Farnese: [in the audience] Did he say under the stairs?
- Oliviero Carafa: Oh, dear. Sounds pretty dreary.
- Giovanni Colonna: I hope there will be dancing.
- Alfonso di Calabria: How long until France's crusade tramples Italy? All the while, Cesare kisses the feet of the same Sodomites who held him hostage.
- Lucrezia Borgia: How many Borgia must my father marry into your family before you realize that we are not your enemy?
- Alfonso di Calabria: Your family licks the ass of the very men who drove my father from his throne - his final days in madness.
- Lucrezia Borgia: The French did not drive your father mad. The House of Aragona is filled with those who foam at the mouth.
- Alfonso di Calabria: The Army of France raped our women, then cut off their fingers just to steal their rings.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Oh, I forgot! Italian women are only here for Italian men to rape.
- Cesare Borgia: [chance encounter] Eminence...
- Guillaume Briconnet: Forgive me, but I do not know how to address a former Cardinal, or the bastard son of the Pope.
- Cesare Borgia: [calmly] You use the name given to me on the day of my christening. Guillaume, we have much in common despite the unfortunate past we share. Louis is fond of us both. Perhaps we should forgive each other for the sake of each other. And the King.
- Guillaume Briconnet: I was unaware that a Borgia knew how to forgive.
- Queen Anne: I admire you, Cesare, for your dogged pursuit of an unattainable dream.
- Cesare Borgia: I am a cynic, except when confronted by love. Then, Majesty, any dream is possible. Did you ever think that you would be free to marry the man you truly love? Yet Charles lies in his tomb. And the annulment...
- Queen Anne: You Italians, always so blunt.
- Fabrizio Colonna: If I were to marry the girl, you must agree to never touch her again.
- Rodrigo Borgia: [slow grudging acquiescence]
- Fabrizio Colonna: [rising] Well, I will entertain Giulia at my palazzo this evening. At dinner. Examine La Bella up close.
- [takes his leave]
- Rodrigo Borgia: [to Gacet] He is perfect. A pompous shit. Giulia will despise him.
- Alfonso di Calabria: You do not grasp the fullness of my love. My deep desire for us to be truly man and wife.
- Lucrezia Borgia: Man and wife, never woman and husband.
- [last lines]
- Rodrigo Borgia: [conducting ordination] Many disparaging comments have been made the last few weeks by my brother cardinals. But know this. We do what is best for God's Holy Church. With the integrity of faith, and the purity of mind. We intend to make an appointment. As with all others, we demand your unfailing support. And the people of Spoleto will receive their new governor with complete obedience.
- Rodrigo Borgia: [picking up the medallion] We present the next governor of Spoleto... Lucrezia Borgia.