Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 25, 2025
"It is Signor Gianettino, the cook of the French ambassador, and I am ruined!" groaned Don Bempo, staggering back. "Yes, it is the cook of his excellency the cardinal!" cried the crowd. "And the cardinal is an honorable man!" "He is no Spanish niggard!" "He does not haggle for a giant fish; he pays more than is demanded!"
LOMELLINO. Have a care! Have a care! That black stone will yet prove fatal to you. GIANETTINO. Scipio Bourgognino. LOMELLINO. He may celebrate elsewhere his wedding GIANETTINO. Ay, where I shall be director of the nuptials. Raphael Sacco. LOMELLINO. I should intercede for his life until he shall have paid my five thousand crowns. GIANETTINO. Vincent Calcagno. LOMELLINO. Calcagno.
LOMELLINO. Till the whole mass of sedition falls into the hands of some enterprising leader, who will take advantage of the general devastation. GIANETTINO. Poh! Poh! I know but one who might be dangerous, and he is taken care of. LOMELLINO. His highness comes. ANDREAS. Signor Lomellino, my niece wishes to take the air. LOMELLINO. I shall have the honor of attending her. ANDREAS and GIANETTINO.
Historians agree that he could easily have made himself sovereign, but instead of doing so he restored the old aristocratic republic, thus winning for himself the enduring title of 'father and liberator of his country. Although Doria was simply an influential citizen of Genoa and enjoyed the general esteem of his countrymen, his prominence in the state gave rise to animosities among the noble families, and these were increased when he made his young and headstrong kinsman, Gianettino, his heir.
Murder! Murder! Doria is down. Stop the Count Lomellino! Spare but my life, I'll join your party. Is this monster yet alive? Let the coward fly. ZENTURIONE. St. Thomas' gate our own! Gianettino slain! Haste some of you and tell Fiesco. Fiesco! Damnation! Freedom to Genoa, and to my Bertha. Your sword, Zenturione. Take to my bride this bloody weapon her dungeon is thrown open.
If they feel thy wrongs they will expiate them with blood. Be not astonished, friends! He who tramples upon Genoa may easily overcome a helpless female. Gianettino Doria! Cover me, walls, beneath your ruins! My Scipio! BOURGOGNINO the former. Rejoice, my love! I bring good tidings. Noble Verrina, my heaven now depends upon a word from you.
Light as a feather! GIANETTINO. What art thou muttering? MOOR. I was saying it is light work. GIANETTINO. That is thy concern. He is the very loadstone of sedition. Mark me, sirrah! let thy blow be sure. MOOR. But, sir, I must fly to Venice immediately after the deed. GIANETTINO. Then take my thanks beforehand.
Let Gianettino be the duke, affairs of state shall ne'er lie heavy on our heads. VERRINA. Fiesco! Is that truly and seriously your meaning? FIESCO. Andreas adopts his nephew as a son, and makes him heir to his estates; what madman will dispute with him the inheritance of his power? Away, then, Genoese! FIESCO. Verrina! Verrina! Oh, this republican is as hard as steel! FIESCO. A MASK entering.
Ah, damsels, not only has Genoa lost its hero, but I have lost my husband! ROSA. Speak lower! some one is coming through the gallery. Ha! 'Tis Fiesco let us hasten away the sight of me might for a moment interrupt his happiness. GIANETTINO DORIA, masked, in a green cloak, and the MOOR, enter in conversation. GIANETTINO. Thou hast understood me! MOOR. Well GIANETTINO. The white mask MOOR. Well
"And you think Gianettino had the right of it?" at length he asked. "He was entirely in the right, your excellency. Nothing had been paid for the fish, and Gianettino's right to purchase was perfect, and nobody could dispute it!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking