The Borgias, Season Two

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(storming into Vanozza's villa) Vanozza!... Vanozza!...Vanozza! (Vanozza enters the dining room at the same time as him) Did you know of this?

Vanozza Cattaneo:
Of what?

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
That our daughter, betrothed to one, gives herself to the brother?!

Vanozza Cattaneo:
(sarcastically) Lucrezia? It's not possible- how could she be so foolish?

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(impatient) With the help of those around her, perhaps? What advice did you give her, hmm?

Vanozza Cattaneo:
(sits down) I merely said, that if she married to please you, she may yet love to please herself.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(sighs in exasperation) And you thought that wise?!

Vanozza Cattaneo:
(curtly) I married one of your choosing, to be free to love you.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
But you are not the Pope's daughter!

Vanozza Cattaneo:
Rodrigo, she will love whom she chooses- she is a Borgia. (Lucrezia enters, Rodrigo angrily turns on her)

Lucrezia Borgia:
I hear the Palavacini boys have gone. (walks past him)

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
Yes- because you would marry a pauper with a paintbrush! (Lucrezia kisses her mother,then turns to face him)

Lucrezia Borgia:
(coldly) I would have married Calvino Palavacini, as you bid, dear Father- but, if I had followed my heart, I doubt I would have married either of them.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(sarcastically) Oh- so the future of this family is enthralled to your heart, hm? (Lucrezia's expression softens just a fraction)

Lucrezia Borgia:
(strokes her father's chin)...If it is, it needs mending. Like my heart.