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Updated: June 25, 2025
Proud and happy marched Signor Gianettino through the streets, accompanied by his gigantic fish, and followed by the shouts of a Roman mob. Humiliated, with eyes cast down, with rage in his heart sneaked Don Bempo toward the Spanish ambassador's hotel, and long heard behind him the whistling, laughter, and catcalls of the Roman people. Cardinal Bernis was in his boudoir.
He will not be so mean as to offer twelve ducats for such a miracle as this!" "Twelve ducats!" cried Gianettino, folding his hands. "How can you think me so pitiful as to offer such a miserable sum for so noble a fish. No, truly, he must have a bold forehead who would offer so little money for this splendid animal!" "Hear him! hear!" cried the people. "This is a learned man.
As if I burdened my memory with such trifles! GIANETTINO. I must know positively. JULIA. Well, then, he was here yesterday. GIANETTINO. And behaved without reserve? JULIA. As usual. GIANETTINO. As much a coxcomb as ever. Brother! I say as much a coxcomb Sir! What do you take me for? For a mere piece of woman-flesh, wrapped up in a great great patent of nobility.
You know the fabled power of Medusa's head they who but looked on it were turned to stone. What may not be done, my boy, before stories are warmed to animation? LOMELLINO. Have you given the countess any intimation of it? GIANETTINO. That would never do! We must deal more cautiously with her attachment to FIESCO. When she shares the sweets, the cost will soon be forgotten.
Are you there, my most gracious and dear good lord? Be not displeased with us. We could no longer restrain her. Restrain her! Wretch! From what? ARABELLA. From following Ha! From following what? ARABELLA. The tumult FIESCO. What was her dress? ARABELLA. A Scarlet mantle. Get thee to the abyss of hell! The mantle? ARABELLA. Lay here upon the ground. 'Twas here that Gianettino was killed. Oh!
At this moment a man was seen making his way through the crowd; thrusting right and left with his elbows, he incessantly pushed on, and, just as Signor Gianettino had fairly got his troop in motion, the man, who was no other than Don Bempo, succeeded in reaching the fisherman's table. "Here, I bring you the twenty ducats," he proudly called out.
"See, there comes a new purchaser for my fish. Be quiet, and let us see how much France is disposed to offer us." The disturbance subsided as suddenly as it had arisen, and all pressed nearer; all directed interrogating, curious, expectant glances at Signor Gianettino, who just at that moment approached with a proud and grave step, followed by the solemn train of six scullions with their baskets.
ANDREAS. Nephew, I am much displeased with you. GIANETTINO. Grant me a hearing, most gracious uncle! ANDREAS. That would I grant to the meanest beggar in Genoa if he were worthy of it. Never to a villain, though he were my nephew. It is sufficient favor that I address thee as an uncle, not as a sovereign! GIANETTINO. One word only, gracious sir!
Thus the painful episode of Bertha was worked over into something less revoltingly horrible. In the stage version, instead of being brutally violated, she is abducted by a tool of Gianettino, but rescued and restored to her home unharmed. With this change made it would seem as if there were less reason than ever for her being cursed and sent to a subterraneous prison-vault.
France, Germany and the Pope stand dimly in the background like mechanical puppets, and we never learn what they severally represent in relation to Genoese politics, Gianettino pulls a string and has a sanction for the wholesale murder of his countrymen. Fiesco pulls another string and gets men and galleys ad libitum.
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