[Suddenly falling from her height full length on the ground.
Jesu miserere!
SCENE IV
The Stanze, Duke Cesare de Valentinois della Romagna’s new apartments in the Vatican.
The Lord Alexander VI. has penetrated into them and looks round.
ALEXANDER.
At last I have lodged him in the Vatican! But this is pleasure!... There is perfume in the rooms—the first scent of jasmine? No, but his balls of perfume ranged already in their order....
[Laughing as a two-year-old child crawls up to him from a tapestry.
Ah, ah, and the babe too!—Giovanni!... So
I named him, so, to speak once more the name.
[The child reaches up to him.