- King Charles VIII: [Entering the gates of the city] Where are the cheering crowds, the welcoming populace?
- Giovanni Sforza: [as he is being released from a gunny sack after being kidnapped] Where am I?
- Cesare Borgia: Where all roads lead to - Rome.
- King Charles VIII: [Taken aback when he meets the Pope dressed in only a friar's robe in the Vatican] It is not as we expected.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Does the Pope of Rome disappoint your highness? Had you hoped for gold and silver vestments? Display has its purpose, but simplicity must rule our hearts. We are all of us naked before God... even the Pope of Rome... even the King of France.
- Rodrigo Borgia: [With his new grandson and his family] We should thank God for all the blessings he has visited on this, our family.