Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Oliver Platt: Maffio Venier

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• Maffio Venier : May sing, and rhyme, and more. Still, is at best a slut, With every horny mutt! You pride yourself on arts and letters, and fucking best your manly betters!

  Veronica Franco : I save the goodly wives of Venice from their husbands' lustful menace!

• Maffio Venier : You compel sacred love to garner riches. What is this if not witchcraft?

  Veronica Franco : No!

  Maffio Venier : No? Did you ever give yourself to a man who could not pay your fee?

  Veronica Franco : I gave my heart where riches were no use.

  Maffio Venier : Answer the question!

  Veronica Franco : I did what was necessary to live!

  Maffio Venier : Did you ever give yourself to a man who could not pay your fee?

  Veronica Franco : What other profession will you allow me? How shall I survive if I cannot marry?

  Bolognetti : You will answer the question!

  Veronica Franco : Why, when you are determined to damn me whatever. I say?

• Maffio Venier : Personally, I didn't think Uncle was still capable of getting it up. What did you do to him to get him to publish this little of ditties.

  Marco Venier : She worked for it.

  Maffio Venier : Ha, I bet she did. How much do you cost these days Veronica?

  Veronica Franco : If your prick is as limp as your verse, no price can buy time enough.

• Veronica Franco : I confess I *fuck* divinely those who love and well opine me.

  Maffio Venier : [mocking her]  I confess I fuck divinely, Those who richly wine and dine me

• Veronica Franco : Recant the curse you give my kind. Admit I have, as you, a heart and mind.

  Maffio Venier : A greedy hand, an empty heart is all that wrests your legs apart.

• Maffio Venier : Oh! Oh, Olivia. Oh, glorious maid, Of virtue spare, With bosoms like those, Who could care?

  Marco Venier : My rod, my lady, a hand.

• Maffio Venier : Venice may as well be deemed one large floating brothel.

  Marco Venier : What's biting your ass this fair evening, cousin?

  Maffio Venier : Um. Poverty. Always puts me in a bad mood.

  Marco Venier : Can you begrudge the fairer sex their little crumbs?

  Maffio Venier : No, though they do make more in a night than I a month. The lovely whores.

• Maffio Venier : Must be interesting being in a room full of men, most of whom you've seen with their pants down.

  Veronica Franco : Puts it all in some kind of perspective.

• Veronica Franco : Recant the curse you give my kind, Admit I have, as you, a heart and mind.

  Maffio Venier : A greedy hand, an empty heart, Is all that wrests your legs apart.

• Maffio Venier : For what did they pay you?

  Veronica Franco : For the dream of love - as it cannot exist in this world that you've created.

• Maffio Venier : Paradise? When 56,000 have fallen? You say this. You! Who fill your home with feasting and dancing while Venice suffers? Who creates a sumptuous world of *flesh* and depravity, of orgiastic rites invoking the devil? This is your paradise?

• Maffio Venier : Tell us, how many of the worthy men of this city have you taken into your chamber?

  Veronica Franco : I have not counted my lovers.

  Maffio Venier : More than 20?

  Bolognetti : You will answer the question.

  Veronica Franco : Yes.

  Maffio Venier : More than 100?

  Veronica Franco : I don't know.

  Maffio Venier : You cannot remember them? Yet for each you paraded your milky breast and hair of spun copper. For each you learned his unique favored touch and enchanted him to believe he was the only man in the universe. What was the average number in a single week?

  Veronica Franco : I told you. I enchanted no one.