LIBRETTO - Naxos Music Library
LIBRETTO - Naxos Music Library
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ooklet472.qxd 18/02/2005 14.34 Pagina 33<br />
(con fierezza) Duca! Figluol del popolo io son!...<br />
Duca - (alzandosi) Cotanto audace!...<br />
(reprimendosi)<br />
Non cale! A un uom di genio clemenza usar mi piace...<br />
Che vogliono costoro?...<br />
Salvatore - Rivivan gli statuti<br />
Di Carlo Quinto - cessino gli orribili tributi...<br />
12 Duca - A patti coi ribelli scender dovrei?...<br />
(Si odono grida lontane di popolo)<br />
Salvatore - Gli sguardi<br />
Laggiù volgete, o Duca - forse doman fia tardi!<br />
Duca - Tremin gli stolti!...<br />
Isabella e detti.<br />
Isabella - (affannata) Padre!...<br />
Salvatore - (colpito) Sua figlia!...<br />
Isabella - (vedendo Salvatore) Ei qui!...<br />
Duca - Che vuoi?...<br />
Isabella - Tutta Napoli insorge...<br />
Duca - Ebben?...<br />
Isabella - Placar tu puoi<br />
L’ira fatal d’un popolo tradito...<br />
Duca - Ed è mia figlia...<br />
E’ la duchessa d’Arcos che tal viltà consiglia<br />
Al padre!...<br />
Salvatore - (ad Isabella)<br />
O voi che d’angelo avete il volto e il cor...<br />
Pregate... e il vostro accento disarmi il suo furor!...<br />
Isabella - (al Duca)<br />
Padre... a te il grido innalzasi<br />
D’un popolo tradito...<br />
Molto ei sofferse e il gemito<br />
Or si cangiò in ruggito...<br />
Cedi! E costor che imprecano<br />
Per disperato affanno,<br />
A te benediranno<br />
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(proudly) Duke! I am a man of the people!<br />
Duke - (rising) How dare you!...<br />
(restraining himself)<br />
No matter! I wish to show mercy to a man of talent...<br />
What do they want?...<br />
Salvatore - Reinstate the code of law<br />
of Charles V - Cease levying the disgraceful taxation...<br />
12 Duke - And I should accept<br />
the conditions of rebels?... (Offstage shouts)<br />
Salvatore - Look out there,<br />
Duke, perhaps tomorrow it will be too late!<br />
Duke - The fools must tremble!...<br />
Isabella and the above.<br />
Isabella - (frightened) Father!...<br />
Salvatore - (stunned) His daughter!...<br />
Isabella - (seeing Salvatore) Him, here!...<br />
Duke - What do you want?...<br />
Isabella - All of Naples is rising up...<br />
Duke - Well then?...<br />
Isabella - You can placate<br />
the ominous anger of a betrayed people...<br />
Duke - And it is my daughter...<br />
the duchess of Arcos who suggests such a cowardly act<br />
to her father!...<br />
Salvatore - (to Isabella)<br />
You who have the features and the heart of an angel...<br />
Plead with him... and may your words disarm his fury<br />
Isabella - (to the Duke)<br />
Father... what you hear is the outcry<br />
of a betrayed people...<br />
They have suffered greatly and their moans<br />
have turned into roars...<br />
Yield! And the same people who now are cursing,<br />
in their despair and anguish,<br />
shall one day bless you
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