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Being set free and returned to their city, the time arrived for the new Priors to enter upon office, and among those who were drawn, was one named Giusto, a plebeian, but possessing great influence with his class, and one of those who had been imprisoned at Florence.
He looked at the lithographed title-page and read the title: Romeo and Julia. "This is Gounod's most beautiful composition," he said, "and I don't believe that it will be too difficult for us." As usual his wife undertook to play the treble and they began. D major, common time, allegro giusto. "It is beautiful, isn't it?" asked the husband, when they had finished the overture.
The latter refused, alleging her alliance with Florence; and Pagolo Guinigi, to regain the favor of the Florentines, which he imagined he had lost in the war with the duke and by his friendship for Filippo, not only refused assistance to Giusto, but sent his messenger prisoner to Florence.
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