- Duke de Medici: Francesca, you were very rude to the Count d'Albert.
- Francesca: He's a bore.
- Duke de Medici: We must do everything we can to cement our alliance with the Bourbons and despite your rudeness, the Count seems quite taken with you, so...
- Francesca: The success of this alliance is in your hands, *not* in my heart!
- Marco del Monte: Angelica, my darling, you look ravishing! Oh, my angel, I've never seen anything quite so lovely.
- Angelica: I'll come back when you're feeling better.
- [last lines]
- [de Medici has just forgiven his sister for joining a plot to overthrow him]
- Angelica: Such *charming* people.
- Marco del Monte: Oh so carefree; so impetuous.
- Machiavelli: It is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman and it is necessary, if you wish to master her, to conquer her by force.
- Marco del Monte: Who wrote that?
- Machiavelli: I did.
- Marco del Monte: By force!
- [Marco grabs Angelica and kisses her passionately]