The Borgias, Season Two

Micheletto Corella:
You should spare yourself this, Your Eminence.

Cesare Borgia:
Why? Why should I spare myself? (he walks through the burned-out nunnery, Micheletto follows with a torch) I should've foreseen this. (he looks up at the fresco he commissioned, with Ursula Bonadeo's face)

Micheletto Corella:
... Your Eminence. (Cesare enters the next room to find Micheletto standing over the body of Ursula, with her ears cut off)

Cesare Borgia:
...Ursula. (he kneels next to her and touches her bloodstained face) She chose God, Micheletto... and God repaid her with mutilation.

Micheletto Corella:
I know little of God, Your Eminence.

Cesare Borgia:
(full of grief and rage) God is deaf, God is blind- God is pitiless. (pause) She has released my heart... of all emotions, but one. (looks up at Micheletto) Vengeance.

Micheletto Corella:
(nods) Vengeance is sweet.

Cesare Borgia:
So, who did this, my friend?

Micheletto Corella:
The French. (picks up the remnants of a banner and examines it) This flag belongs to the cavalry of Gascony- these women were sport for army scouts.

Cesare Borgia:
Scouts?

Micheletto Corella:
They're renowned for their savagery- necklaces of severed ears. (Cesare removes his cloak and covers Ursula's body with it)

Cesare Borgia:
We must give them a lesson, then- in outrage. (they walk away) You were once a stray dog, Micheletto- masterless.

Micheletto Corella:
I found my master in you.

Cesare Borgia:
There must be other stray dogs out there, in Rome.

Micheletto Corella:
There are many. Sons of warlord families, condottiere who long have outlived their usefulness.

Cesare Borgia:
Search out a dozen of them- whom we can school in the art of vengeance.