Cardinal Campeggio quotes from The Tudors

Cardinal Campeggio

So the deal is off between the French cardinals and Wolsey? As it should be. The next Pope should be Italian, as it was, is, and should be. We had one English Pope. He was insane! No more.

Cardinal Campeggio

I have received a petition from the dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk and Lord Boleyn, saying the divorce has an overwhelming support of the people of England.

Thomas More

As Your Eminence would quickly discover if he stepped outside these doors and saw the people, that is a manifest lie. On the contrary, the people love their queen and they have every reason to do so.

Cardinal Campeggio

[regarding a letter Henry VII has sent demanding an annulment] He uses some intemperate language, Holiness, claiming that "Never was a prince so poorly treated by a Pope"

Pope Paul III

He meant my predecessor, and to be fair, he has a point. Clement was a terrible procrastinator. Although it was terribly wrong for some to dig up his dead body, stab it, and drag it through the street, I can well understand their sentiments; he was never popular.

Cardinal Campeggio

...Holy Father?

Pope Paul III

Do you know who that was? (the Cardinal shakes his head) Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

Cardinal Campeggio

Michelangelo?! That was him?!

Pope Paul III

That was him. We forgive him, because he is a genius... whatever that means.