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There is no doubt that he began 'Fiesco' supposing that it would prove a convenient setting for those inspiring ideas of liberty which he had absorbed from the reading of ancient history and of modern revolutionary literature.
GIANETTINO. It does not signify would that Spinola were but here. Fiesco will be found dead in his bed. I have taken measures for it. LOMELLINO. But it will cause great consternation. GIANETTINO. In that lies our security. Common crimes but move the blood and stir it to revenge: atrocious deeds freeze it with terror, and annihilate the faculties of man.
The CONSPIRATORS, entering in a body LADIES on the other side FIESCO, JULIA, and LEONORA. LEONORA. Oh, my husband, that was too cruel! FIESCO. A wicked heart deserved no less. I owed this satisfaction to your tears. The follies of mankind amuse me long ere they excite my anger; but this woman merits my whole resentment. Behold the poison which she had mingled for my beloved Leonora. Good! Good!
BOURGOGNINO. Give me these papers, and I will ride with them through Genoa, holding them up to view. The very stones will rise in mutiny, and even the dogs will howl against the tyrant. ALL. Revenge! Revenge! Revenge! This very night! FIESCO. Now you have reached the point. At sunset I will invite hither the principal malcontents those that stand upon the bloody list of Gianettino!
These thoughts are dreadful. LEONORA. And yet the picture is not finished. Let love be sacrificed to greatness and even peace of mind if Fiesco but remained unchanged. O God! that thought is racking torture. Seldom do angels ascend the throne still seldomer do they descend it such. Can he know pity who is raised above the common fears of man?
FIESCO. Man, thou art dreadful; yet I know not why I must follow thee. But once more embrace me, Fiesco. Fiesco! Fiesco! Thou makest a void in my bosom which all mankind, thrice numbered, could not fill up. Be still, my friend. VERRINA. Throw off this hateful purple, and I will be so. The first prince was a murderer, and assumed the purple to hide the bloody stains of his detested deeds.
Their trade never produces a man of genius; 'tis confined to the whip and workhouse and at most can lead but to the gallows. FIESCO. A charming prospect! I should like to hear something of a superior class. MOOR. The next are spies and informers tools of importance to the great, who from their secret information derive their own supposed omniscience.
From there Schiller addressed a pathetic letter to Dalberg, setting forth that he was in great distress and asking for an advance of money against the first performance of 'Fiesco'. But the cautious Dalberg, who had just been in Stuttgart, replied coolly that 'Fiesco' was unsuited to the stage and would need to be radically revised.
MOOR. So, then, the devil does not forsake his friends. Your servant, gentlemen! I see that Italy does not produce my halter; I must seek it elsewhere. FIESCO, CONSPIRATORS. Enter SERVANT. SERVANT. The Countess Imperiali has already asked three times for your grace. FIESCO. Ha! then the comedy must indeed begin! Tell her I come directly.
It had been arranged that Mendez, as soon as he could send off a vessel, was to proceed on to Spain with the Admiral's despatches giving an account of his new discoveries, and that Fiesco was to return in a vessel to take him and his companions off from Jamacia.
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