Borgia (TV Series)

The Invasion of Rome (2011)

John Doman: Rodrigo Borgia

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Alessandro Farnese : Yes, but the rules of war no longer rule. Hadrian built Castel Sant'Angelo as a mausoleum, not a shelter for Roman refugees. When the French army arrives, I fear this fort will be used as a tomb once more. Within days, hours even.

  Rodrigo Borgia : Stay brave, Eminence.

  Alessandro Farnese : With all due respect, Holiness, the army of Naples was filled with brave men, who now lie putrefying on the fields north of Rome. And their king has abdicated, fled to Gaeta.

• Rodrigo Borgia : We cannot give up this fortress. Charles would hand Sant'Angelo over to della Rovere and soon my body would be floating in the Tiber, decomposed instead of deposed.

• [last lines] 

  Rodrigo Borgia : We have come together, my brothers, only to part. Farnese, you will leave today for Siena. Colonna, for Ferrara. Orsini, for Venice. Riario-Sansoni, to Florence. You will convince the dukes and doges, the merchants and the clergy in each city, that we must, once again, come together to save Italy. The King of Spain will join us. So, we are certain, will the Emperor. We shall forge a Holy League which will decimate the French and bring della Rovere to his knees.

  Rodrigo Borgia : [all rise]  As with Constantine, Justinian and Charlemagne, the Lance of Longinus bestows victory upon its keeper.

  [raises the saber] 

  Johann Burchard : All hail Pope Alexander!