- Micheletto: [having realized Pascal's betrayal, Micheletto angrily recites Catallus' poem back at him] "I hate, and I love. Why, you may ask? I do not know. But it happen, and I... and..." How does it go?
- Pascal: "I burn."
- Micheletto: No, in the Latin, please.
- Pascal: [he hesitates, and Micheletto rushes at him and pins him against the wall] "Excrucior"! "Excrucior"!
- Micheletto: It is a big word for "burn"!
- [shouts furiously]
- Micheletto: Why? Why did you become my lover? Why?
- Pascal: Because I was made an offer!
- Micheletto: From whom?
- [Pascal doesn't answer]
- Micheletto: You enjoyed the thrill? The danger, yes?
- Pascal: Yes! Yes! I admit, I did.
- Micheletto: I should flay you alive! But I will be merciful.
- Pascal: You will?
- [Micheletto releases him and collapses to the floor, weeping]
- Micheletto: [devastated] You tell me how you wish to die, Pascal.
- Pascal: I die?
- [they nod at one another; he replies after a pause]
- Pascal: In your arms.
- Micheletto: [after both he and Cesare narrowly escape from the catacombs alive after an explosion] Jesus must love you, Cesare Borgia.
- Cesare Borgia: [Referring to the Shroud of Turin] Yes, he wept. He wept bloody tears. He does... he does... He loves me!
- Cesare Borgia: [shouting joyously] Jesus loves me!