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Juan Borgia : I should come with you, Father.
Rodrigo Borgia : We need you here. You must charm the King as long as possible, giving us time to move northward, and for Spain to lay siege to Naples.
Lucrezia Borgia : But Father, the last time Charles came to Rome, you remained.
Rodrigo Borgia : Last time, Charles believed us weak, we believed *ourselves* weak. There was no threat to him. Now the outcome is unknowable.
Lucrezia Borgia : So, when you are weak, you stay, but when you are strong, you flee?
Rodrigo Borgia : As long as even one Borgia dwells in Rome, our travels cannot be seen as flight, because your presence is a sign of our intention to return.
Lucrezia Borgia : But why must both of us stay?
Rodrigo Borgia : Charles will do you no harm.
Lucrezia Borgia : How can you be certain? You said no one would harm my mother.
Rodrigo Borgia : Because Juan will agree, on our behalf, to all the King's demands. Drown him in yeses. Any concordat can be reversed.
Juan Borgia : Holiness, I will reflect you as my armor does the sun.
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Alfonso D'Este : I am being fumigated in a mercury bath. Uh, You look beautiful.
Lucrezia Borgia : What is that on your face?
Alfonso D'Este : I have contracted the Great Pox. That is why I am in Rome, for the best in medicinal treatments.
Lucrezia Borgia : You have the French disease?
Alfonso D'Este : Funny, the French call it the Italian disease. Uh, I'm told the pox actually came from the New World.
Lucrezia Borgia : And I am told the pox is contracted by sleeping with whores.
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[last lines]
Lucrezia Borgia : [through the door] We beg sanctuary. We are running for our lives. Please, I beseech you, take us in.
Columba of Rieti : You seek sanctuary? From whom?
Lucrezia Borgia : From my father.
Columba of Rieti : Your father?
Lucrezia Borgia : Pope Alexander VI, Supreme Pontiff of Holy Mother Church.
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Rosalina della Mirandola : [at the door in tears] My father has disowned me. I am dead, Lucrezia. I am dead.
Lucrezia Borgia : No, you stupid fool. You're not dead until you are dead.
Rosalina della Mirandola : Well, what should I do?
Lucrezia Borgia : Tell Lord Jaches that this is rumor, tavern gossip. That you are still a virgin.
Rosalina della Mirandola : You Borgia are all the same, a cabal of liars!
Lucrezia Borgia : Then suffer with your truth!
Rosalina della Mirandola : [gets up onto the open window]
Lucrezia Borgia : Rosalina?
Rosalina della Mirandola : "You are not dead until you are dead."
[leans back and falls]
Lucrezia Borgia : Oh!