Quotes
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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.