Borgia (TV Series)

The Serpent Rises (2011)

Mark Ryder: Cesare Borgia

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• Rodrigo Borgia : Who killed my son?

  Cesare Borgia : God.

  Rodrigo Borgia : God is not so ruthless.

  Cesare Borgia : He killed his own son. Why would he not kill yours?

• Rodrigo Borgia : We command you to go to Spain and fulfill your pastoral duties.

  Cesare Borgia : And what if, Father, I said I no longer wished to be archbishop? Nor wear the red robe of a cardinal?

  Rodrigo Borgia : We would, like a deaf man, stare blankly as your mouth moves.

• Juan Borgia : As prefect of Rome, Prince of Tricarico, I can say what I choose.

  Cesare Borgia : Brother, you have the helmet but not the brain. The sword, but not the arm to wield it.

• Cesare Borgia : So, tell me cous', What have you learned living in the Borgia household?

  Pantisilea : To take what I want, regardless of the cost and who gets hurt.

• Guillaume Briçonnet : If hearsay is gospel, I would believe that *you* stabbed the prefect out of jealousy.

  Cesare Borgia : Jealousy?

  Guillaume Briçonnet : Over the Lady Lucrezia. Rumors span from the tip of Sicily to the doors of Notre Dame, that both you and your brother have had incestuous relations with your sister.

  Cesare Borgia : You dare speak such words?

  Guillaume Briçonnet : I do not subscribe to this gossip. Neither does my king. But what does it say about your family that others are so easily convinced the perversions are true?

• Lucrezia Borgia : I tried to give myself to God, but he refused. And am I not following the example of my father and brothers? Am I not a Borgia? Do not hate me.

  Cesare Borgia : I have a great many feelings towards you. Hate is not one of them. You have acted bravely. More bravely than I. In the Garden of Eden, Eve showed more courage than Adam. When the serpent offered the forbidden fruit, she knew that there was something better than paradise.

• Cesare Borgia : A son exists to glorify the life of his father, as meaningless and worthless as that life might be. But if the boy is to become a man, he must glorify himself, and make a name even greater than his father's. A name that will shout throughout history.

  Cesare Borgia : I am Cesare Borgia!