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I do not wonder that you did not understand. It is my name, Excellency." "Your name? Still I do not understand " "I have no other name but that dei figli del Rè " said Ruggiero. "That is all." "How strange!" exclaimed Beatrice. "It is the truth, Excellency, and to show you that it is the truth here is my seaman's license."
But he rejoiced in her friendship, and, one day, opened his heart to her. 'Madge, he said, 'I am furious with Fate. Life is chaos. Shall I tell you of what it reminds me? When I was last in Florence I was invited to the dress rehearsal of "Figli Di Re." I took my seat in the stalls of the huge empty opera house. The members of the orchestra were all in their places. Pandemonium reigned!
You know what we Florentines say: Siena Di tre cose e piena: Torri, campane, E figli di putane." "I admit that Siena is deficient in certain points," I replied. "That wonderful dome of yours, for example there is nothing like it here." "No, indeed. Ah, that cupola! Ah, Brunelleschi che genio!" "I perceive you are a true Florentine.
As a young man he had sung of the Italians as 'Figli tutti d'un solo Riscatto, and though he was not of those who fight either with the sword or the pen, yet that 'Riscatto' was the dream of his youth and manhood, and the joy of his old age.
The Sinigaglia trials were followed by similar prosecutions at Ancona, Jesi, Pesaro, and Funa, where unhappy groupes of citizens, indicted for political offences, waited the tender mercies which the "Holy Father" dispenses to his figli by the hands of Swiss and Austrian carabiniers. Let us state the result at Ancona.
His 'Can de Dio! was shouted out in a voice that made the theatre shake and the poor actor tremble. If, on the other hand, the public disapproved without reason, Barbaja would start up in his box and address the audience. 'Figli d'una racca! 'Will you hold your tongues?
The ancient Gauls' looked upon it as a very horrid thing for a man to have society with a woman before he was twenty years of age, and strictly recommended to the men who designed themselves for war the keeping their virginity till well grown in years, forasmuch as courage is abated and diverted by intercourse with women: "Ma, or congiunto a giovinetta sposa, E lieto omai de' figli, era invilito Negli affetti di padre et di marito."
People say indeed that the place is not so well managed, nor the cooking so good since poor Carmela died, the widow of Ruggiero dei Figli del Rè Roger of the Children of the King.
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