(storming into Vanozza's villa) Vanozza!... Vanozza!...Vanozza! (Vanozza enters the dining room at the same time as him) Did you know of this?
Of what?
That our daughter, betrothed to one, gives herself to the brother?!
(sarcastically) Lucrezia? It's not possible- how could she be so foolish?
(impatient) With the help of those around her, perhaps? What advice did you give her, hmm?
(sits down) I merely said, that if she married to please you, she may yet love to please herself.
(sighs in exasperation) And you thought that wise?!
(curtly) I married one of your choosing, to be free to love you.
But you are not the Pope's daughter!
Rodrigo, she will love whom she chooses- she is a Borgia. (Lucrezia enters, Rodrigo angrily turns on her)
I hear the Palavacini boys have gone. (walks past him)
Yes- because you would marry a pauper with a paintbrush! (Lucrezia kisses her mother,then turns to face him)
(coldly) I would have married Calvino Palavacini, as you bid, dear Father- but, if I had followed my heart, I doubt I would have married either of them.
(sarcastically) Oh- so the future of this family is enthralled to your heart, hm? (Lucrezia's expression softens just a fraction)
(strokes her father's chin)...If it is, it needs mending. Like my heart.
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