Borgia (TV Series)

Wisdom of the Holy Spirit (2011)

Christian McKay: Ascanio Sforza

Quotes 

• Cardinal Sforza : [removing Rodrigo's note from his chicken]  Keep your greasy diocese. Give the chicken to Gherardo. I like mine without the taste of hypocrisy.

• Cardinal Sforza : Savelli is witnessing the Holy Ghost.

  Rodrigo Borgia : Shadows on a ceiling, or a ghost. But not holy.

• Cardinal Sforza : You are good at moving money. Like a Spanish Jew.

  Rodrigo Borgia : Hmm. Or a Milanese banker.

• Cardinal Sforza : You shuffled four mules loaded with coin out of the Vatican treasury.

  Rodrigo Borgia : As a precaution.

  Cardinal Sforza : Let us rob the bank to save it?

  Rodrigo Borgia : I do not need to steal. I have enough gold, silver and rare gems to fill the Sistine to its rafters.

  Cardinal Sforza : Shall we see who can fill which room with what?

  Rodrigo Borgia : Perhaps I have not mastered the Milanese dialect as well as I thought. I speak not out of pride, but in friendship As Vice Chancellor, you can become rich. Richer than you are, richer than you know.

  Cardinal Sforza : Yes, but there is a problem with that. You would be Pope. Do you understand my dialect now?