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ooklet472.qxd 18/02/2005 14.35 Pagina 39<br />

Isabella) Gran Dio!<br />

Dovrà il fatal segreto<br />

Morir nel petto mio?...<br />

Isabella - (Reprimi, o core, i palpiti!)<br />

Salvatore - (con risoluzione)<br />

No... tutto a lei si sveli!<br />

(Ad Isabella) Ogni misura eccedono<br />

Le angoscie mie crudeli!<br />

Isabella - Voi... mi atterrite...<br />

Salvatore - Uditemi...<br />

Il core io v’aprirò...<br />

Poi di dolore... e d’onta<br />

Al vostro piè morrò...<br />

Isabella - Parlate!... (A immenso gaudio<br />

O a morte incontro io vo’).<br />

20 Salvatore - Sulle rive di Chiaia io stava assiso<br />

A ritrar sulla tela un bel mattin...<br />

Quando, radiante di celeste riso,<br />

Si arrestò una fanciulla a me vicin...<br />

Ella sul mio dipinto<br />

L’occhio tenea rivolto...<br />

Io nel celeste volto<br />

Pascea lo sguardo e il cor.<br />

Isabella - (mal frenando la sua gioia)<br />

Ah! Di quell’ora l’estasi<br />

L’alma rivive ancor...<br />

Salvatore - Ella fuggì... disparve - in un mistero<br />

Quell’angelica forma si smarrì...<br />

E in lei sempre era fisso il mio pensiero...<br />

L’astro era dessa de’ miei foschi dì.<br />

Isabella - Nè più la rivedeste?...<br />

Salvatore - Io... l’ho veduta<br />

Or fan due giorni...<br />

Isabella - (tremante) E voi l’amate ancor...<br />

Salvatore - (con disperazione)<br />

Io l’adoro... e per sempre... ahi! L’ho perduta!...<br />

Isabella - Che dite?...<br />

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Isabella) Almighty God!<br />

Shall my secret<br />

die within my breast?...<br />

Isabella - (Calm down, my heart!)<br />

Salvatore - (resolutely)<br />

No... I must tell her everything!<br />

(To Isabella) My anguish<br />

is beyond measure!<br />

Isabella - You... frighten me...<br />

Salvatore - Hear me...<br />

I shall open my heart to you...<br />

and then die of sorrow...<br />

and of shame at your feet...<br />

Isabella - Speak!... (I must be prepared<br />

either for great happiness or doom).<br />

20 Salvatore - I was sitting on the shore of Chiaia<br />

one fine morning, painting...<br />

when a radiant and merry<br />

young lady came near me...<br />

Her eyes were captivated<br />

by my painting...<br />

while my gaze and my heart<br />

relished her celestial features.<br />

Isabella - (hardly able to conceal her joy)<br />

Ah! My soul relives<br />

the bliss of that moment...<br />

Salvatore - She left... disappeared - mysteriously,<br />

that angelic creature vanished...<br />

But my mind has never stopped thinking of her...<br />

She has became the star of my grim life.<br />

Isabella - Have you ever seen her again?...<br />

Salvatore - I... saw her again<br />

two days ago...<br />

Isabella - (trembling) And you still love her...<br />

Salvatore - (desperately)<br />

I adore her... but... alas! I have lost her forever!...<br />

Isabella - What are you saying?...

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