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Updated: June 23, 2025
'All Rome is here, from the Sacred College and the Queen of Sweden to the poorest notary's clerk, and it would take an hour to make your way through the crowd. Below the tabernacle the church is nearly half full of country people. 'You will have to go in by the main door, Stradella said to Ortensia.
After he had been some time in the dark, Stradella saw that a very feeble glimmer was visible through a square grated opening which he had noticed in the door when the gaoler was unlocking it before entering.
She added that the Maestro himself was so enthusiastic about the Senator's songs that he now cared for nothing else. Yet the truth was that Stradella had summed up his criticism in a few words. 'They are all so much alike that they almost produce the impression of having been written by the same person.
They had seen him and he was satisfied; and at that moment the Canons reached the end of the last psalm, and Stradella joined in the Gloria that followed it, still standing where he was and looking at Ortensia in the distance.
She stood up by her chair and sang far better than she had ever sung before in Pignaver's hearing; she threw life and fire and passion into his mild composition, and she remembered every effective little trick Stradella had taught her for improving the dull melody and for emphasising the commonplace verses it was meant to adorn.
'Your servant told me that you would not be back for some time, said Altieri, 'but I insisted on coming in. Pray forgive the intrusion, for the matter is very urgent. Stradella had taken his hand rather coolly, but he did not mean his visitor to see that he was displeased, and he now politely pushed a chair forward, and took another himself.
'Write down what he says as correctly as you can. Stradella saw that it was useless to protest, and that vehemence might be dangerous. 'By your leave, he said more quietly, 'if you will loosen my hands and let me have my lute there, I will prove what I say, by singing and playing to you. 'Anybody can sing, retorted Monsignor Pelagatti with profound contempt, and without even looking at him.
'Madam, Gambardella was saying, 'the search may be a long one, but we will do our best. We shall require two gold ducats daily for our expenses in travelling, and the payment of five hundred gold ducats in cash when we deliver to you Master Alessandro Stradella, bound hand and foot, at your villa on the Brenta. 'But the woman must die! protested the lady earnestly.
They were then to kneel down quietly in the shadow and to wait till Stradella had finished singing, when they were to leave the church without waiting for him; his man would lead them through by-ways to the gondola, which was to wait on the farther side of the Tolentini.
Below, in the arched entrance, the innkeeper was waiting, in conversation with three other sbirri, dressed and armed much in the same manner as the two who had made the arrest. 'It is a mistake, Stradella said to the host. 'I am taken for another man, and as soon as I have explained who I am, I shall return. I shall be obliged if you will attend to the wants of the lady and her serving-woman.
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