- [first lines]
- Cesare Borgia: Achilli! Achilli! Come out, come out, where ever you are...
- Achilli Tiberti: [panicked, hiding behind a bush]
- Cesare Borgia: [sneaks up and puts a knife to his throat] You lose, Achilli. And in doing so, you decry the name Tiberti.
- Achilli Tiberti: Your Grace, I did not bring my brother to Pesaro to play a child's game. I came to gain your support, so that my family my once again rule Cesena.
- Cesare Borgia: Hide-and-seek is not a game, but a strategy for success.
- Alessandro Farnese: I swear upon my soul, though I am trapped in those red robes, I will do all I can to provide my family the security of great wealth.
- Giulia Farnese: Since you must remain in the Vatican, you must one day rule the Vatican. I will make you Pope.
- Alessandro Farnese: Together we will make me Pope.
- Giulia Farnese: How are you feeling, my Rodrigo?
- Rodrigo Borgia: Like a prisoner in my own body. Completely conscious throwing the fit, yet powerless to gain control.
- Cesare Borgia: Venetian loyalty is like the water in their canals, raising and falling with the phases of the moon.
- Cesare Borgia: A word to the not very wise: you will never will an argument with a Borgia *and* a leopard the room.
- [last lines]
- Dorotea Malatesta: [upon Cesare riding away] Where is he headed?
- Agapito Geraldini: I do not know.
- Dorotea Malatesta: When will he return?
- Agapito Geraldini: I cannot say.