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For these later missions and traders see Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Introd., pp. cxxxii-iv, and text, passim. Ibid., II, p. 292; and App., p. lxv. Concerning the marginal notes by Columbus see Yule, op. cit., II, App. H, p. 558. The book is preserved in the Colombina at Seville.
Ariel fulfils his office, and is not of one kind with those he serves. Is there a memory of Harlequin in that delicate figure? Something of the subservient immortality, of the light indignity, proper to Pantaleone, Brighella, Arlecchino, Colombina, and the Clown, hovers away from the stage when Ariel is released from the trouble of human things. Immortality, did I say?
"O Dio, no!" cries poor Brighella. "I know what brothers and sisters do. I love Colombina and she me, but we don't kiss and hug in a corner. That is what the contessa taught me to do I thought it very beautiful. It was our secret, do you see? But she seems to have taught the marchese and it is a secret no more, and not beautiful at all."
According to the plot of the play, Pantalone is an old merchant of Rimini who arrives in Venice with his family. Colombina is his daughter, and was played, of course, by Belviso; Arlecchino and Brighella are his simpleton sons they were the manager and myself. Il Nanno was Punchinello, his Neapolitan servant, Il Dottore his travelling physician.
The first time that Mercutio fell upon the English stage, there fell with him a gay and hardly human figure; it fell, perhaps finally, for English drama. That manner of man Arlecchino, or Harlequin had outlived his playmates, Pantaleone, Brighella, Colombina, and the Clown.
Any place was good enough so I thought, at least, then. New adventures, new miseries awaited me some carrettiere, or other, guessing that I was no friend of his, nor of the whole set of them, had thrown the jattatura on me. I alighted at the Colombina, after four hours' ride, to give the horses time to rest a little.
The Albergo della Colombina was a great disappointment, for there was nothing there that could be eaten. I decided upon waiting most patiently, but most unlike a few cavalry officers, who, all covered with dust, and evidently as hungry and as thirsty as they could be, began to swear to their hearts' content.
Any place was good enough so I thought, at least, then. New adventures, new miseries awaited me some carrettiere, or other, guessing that I was no friend of his, nor of the whole set of them, had thrown the jattatura on me. I alighted at the Colombina, after four hours' ride, to give the horses time to rest a little.
The Albergo della Colombina was a great disappointment, for there was nothing there that could be eaten. I decided upon waiting most patiently, but most unlike a few cavalry officers, who, all covered with dust, and evidently as hungry and as thirsty as they could be, began to swear to their hearts' content.
Now Colombina is the beloved sister of Brighella; and the doubt is to dawn upon him that possibly his wonderful contessa and his sister's imposing marchese are no better than they should be. Why is she in the arms of the marchese? Are these perhaps the customs of the world of fashion? Punchinello, the family servant, suggests that the marchese and contessa may be brother and sister.
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