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Updated: June 19, 2025
He is made much better than he really was, and the two Dorias much worse.
It is not for the eye of the youthful artist to comprehend at once the master's vast design. Retire, Bourgognino, and take time to weigh the motives of Fiesco's conduct! Go! noble youth! if spirits such as thine break out in flames in thy country's cause, let the Dorias see that they stand fast! FIESCO. The MOOR entering with an appearance of timidity, and looking round cautiously.
Ha! what means this? Genoese, the danger is past but the conspiracy is likewise at an end What! Are the Dorias dead? By heavens! I was prepared to encounter the whole force of the republic, but not this blow. Doria overcomes Fiesco! BOURGOGNINO. Speak, count, we are amazed! "Lavagna, your fate resembles mine; benevolence is rewarded with ingratitude.
Thus, the incessant broils between the Lascaris of Tenda, the Grimaldis of Monaco and the Dorias of Dolceacqua desolated the surrounding country, and often reduced the city to a state of siege. The Niçois were compelled to keep up a perpetual guerilla, which, however inspiriting, was by no means conducive to their material prosperity.
Further study of the subject, however, soon opened the eyes of Schiller to the other side of the question; for in Robertson's 'Charles the Fifth' he found Fiesco portrayed as an ambitious revolutionist who sought to overthrow the Dorias only in order that he might make himself the master of Genoa in short as a Catiline instead of a Brutus.
The rights of the bishop in fact were reduced to the nomination of the judicial magistrates of the town and the reception of certain fees; rights which were subsequently sold to the Dorias, and transferred by the Dorias to the Republic of Genoa.
On the other hand 'twould be amusing to behold the illustrious Dorias in this evening's massacre the victims of a rascally Moor. No. This doubtful question a Christian might perhaps resolve, but 'tis too deep a riddle for my Moorish brains. I'll go propose it to some learned man. An apartment in the house of the COUNTESS IMPERIALI. JULIA in dishabille. GIANETTINO enters, agitated.
General Marmora a thin, shabby, energetic man was everywhere; for the new order of things seemed a little hitchy. Dorias and Colonnas gladdened plebeian eyes, and the people cheered every thing, from the Commander-in-Chief to somebody's breakfast, borne through the crowd by a stately 'Jeames' in livery, who graciously acknowledged the homage.
"Oh, rather!" exclaimed Miss Nancy Bingham, and I reflected that when she was in England she must have seen a great deal of school-boy society. I decided at once, noting its effect upon the lips of a middle-aged maiden lady, that momma must not be allowed to pick up the expression. "It's simply full of associations of old families the Dorias, the Pallavicinis, the Durazzos," remarked Miss Cora.
It is frescoed round with classically imagined portraits of the different Dorias, and above all the portrait of that great hero of the republic.
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