Cesare Borgia

Your brother, Cesar de Borgia, Elect of Valencia

— Cesare Borgia

However much Rome may be in the habit of speaking and writing, for my own part, I shall give these libellers a lesson in good manners.

— Cesare Borgia

A matter which would be easily accomplished, as the best men of that State have already offered themselves to me.

— Cesare Borgia

[I] had not forgotten the way to reconquer it [Urbino].

— Cesare Borgia

The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels."

— Cesare Borgia

Diet of bankrupts... To-day, Messer Paolo is to visit me, and to-morrow there will be the cardinal; and thus they think to befool me, at their pleasure. But I, on my side, am only dallying with them. I listen to all they have to say and bide my own time.

— Cesare Borgia

Without any sign of alteration.

— Cesare Borgia

There is no city, country-side, or castle, nor any place in all Romagna, nor officer or minister of the duke's, who does not know of these abuses; and, amongst others, the famine of wheat occasioned by the traffic which he held against our express prohibition, sending out such quantities as would abundantly have sufficed for the people and the army.

— Cesare Borgia

Ah! Falso ribaldo!

— Cesare Borgia

This is what I wanted to tell Monsignor di Volterra [Soderini] when he came to Urbino, but I could not entrust him with the secret. Now that my opportunity has come, I have known very well how to make use of it, and I have done a great service to your masters.

— Cesare Borgia

This government of yours does not please me, and I cannot trust it; you must change it and give me a pledge that you will observe everything you promised; otherwise you will soon realize that I do not want to live this way; and I will not ...my friend ...my enemy.

— Cesare Borgia