We are in danger of losing the initiative, Your Highness! (King Charles motions for him to shut up) Your Highness, I strongly urge you to-
You will wait! (pause) I will not harm her.
(to Lucrezia) Lucrezia! My God-
They hold us hostage, Brother.
"Us?"
Julia Farnese and I. We were riding to Rome-
Then ride on.
Would you survive this day, dear Juan?
We have a battle to fight.
Believe me, you have lost it already-
It is hardly begun!
(sharply) I have heard one roar of cannon! A hundred more, and your whole army will be dead and bleeding, and you have yet to see their pikes!
(stubbornly) I will not accept defeat-
Then do not call it that! Call it common sense! Say the French King asked for terms. You offered...
...What did I offer?!
His safe passage to Naples, in exchange for... his bloodless entry into Rome.
Lucrezia, he will pillage the place! Depose our father!
Leave that to me. (she returns to Charles) It was my brother, Your Highness!
Your brother?
The Gonfalionere of the Papal Armies. He thought you meant to sack Rome, like the Goths and Vandal hordes! I told him you're a gentleman- you had no such idea. (Charles glances away ashamedly) You had no such idea, had you?
... No such idea.
Your goal is Naples. (Della Rovere looks quickly at the King)
Naples... of course.
(smiles) So... my brother, the Duke of Gandia, the Gonfaloniere of the Papal Armies, bids you welcome to Rome.
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