Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 / 2008-06-05 00:00:00
EBOOK, THE DUKE OF GANDIA ***
Transcribed from the 1908 Chatto and Windus edition by David Price,
email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE DUKE OF GANDIA
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
POPE ALEXANDER VI.
FRANCESCO BORGIA, Duke of Gandia }his sons
CAESAR BORGIA, Cardinal of Valencia }
DON MICHELE COREGLIA, called MICHELOTTO, agent for Caesar Borgia.
GIORGIO SCHIAVONE, a Tiber waterman.
TWO ASSASSINS.
AN OFFICER of the Papal Household.
VANNOZZA CATANEI, surnamed LA ROSA, concubine to the Pope.
LUCREZIA BORGIA, daughter to Alexander and Vannozza.
SCENE: ROME.
TIME: JUNE 14--JULY 22, 1497.
SCENE I
The Vatican
Enter CAESAR and VANNOZZA
CAESAR
Now, mother, though thou love my brother more,
Am I not more thy son than he?
VANNOZZA
Not more.
CAESAR
Have I more Spaniard in me--less of thee?
Did our Most Holiest father thrill thy womb
With more Italian passion than brought forth
Me?
VANNOZZA
Child, thine elder never was as thou -
Spake never thus.
CAESAR
I doubt it not. But I,
Mother, am not mine elder. He desires
And he enjoys the life God gives him--God,
The Pope our father, and thy sacred self,
Mother beloved and hallowed.
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