You should spare yourself this, Your Eminence.
Why? Why should I spare myself? (he walks through the burned-out nunnery, Micheletto follows with a torch) I should've foreseen this. (he looks up at the fresco he commissioned, with Ursula Bonadeo's face)
... Your Eminence. (Cesare enters the next room to find Micheletto standing over the body of Ursula, with her ears cut off)
...Ursula. (he kneels next to her and touches her bloodstained face) She chose God, Micheletto... and God repaid her with mutilation.
I know little of God, Your Eminence.
(full of grief and rage) God is deaf, God is blind- God is pitiless. (pause) She has released my heart... of all emotions, but one. (looks up at Micheletto) Vengeance.
(nods) Vengeance is sweet.
So, who did this, my friend?
The French. (picks up the remnants of a banner and examines it) This flag belongs to the cavalry of Gascony- these women were sport for army scouts.
Scouts?
They're renowned for their savagery- necklaces of severed ears. (Cesare removes his cloak and covers Ursula's body with it)
We must give them a lesson, then- in outrage. (they walk away) You were once a stray dog, Micheletto- masterless.
I found my master in you.
There must be other stray dogs out there, in Rome.
There are many. Sons of warlord families, condottiere who long have outlived their usefulness.
Search out a dozen of them- whom we can school in the art of vengeance.
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