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ooklet472.qxd 18/02/2005 14.35 Pagina 56<br />

D’un avvenir sereno<br />

L’alba riluce a me.<br />

Duca - Del chiostro a schiuderti venni le porte...<br />

Isabella - Sì... in queste mura regna la morte...<br />

Duca - Te gli splendori... te, o figlia, attendono<br />

D’amor le sante gioie...<br />

Isabella - (con ansia) E fia ver?...<br />

Duca - (quasi esitanto, e guardandola fissamente)<br />

Per te le faci... d’imen... già splendono...<br />

Isabella - (con crescente agitazione)<br />

Tremo di leggere nel suo pensier...<br />

Duca - (come sopra)<br />

Far paghi i voti d’un uom che t’ama...<br />

D’un uom che sposa già in cor ti chiama...<br />

Isabella - (con espressione di speranza) Ciel!...<br />

Duca - D’un leale... d’un generoso...<br />

Che noi protesse... che noi salvò...<br />

Isabella - (con gioia) Dunque i miei voti!...<br />

Duca - Doman tuo sposo<br />

Sarà... Fernandez...<br />

Isabella - (arretrando) No!... Pria morrò!<br />

Duca - (con impeto) Ribelle... ancora!...<br />

Isabella - Padre... tu il sai...<br />

A un altro core mia fe’ giurai...<br />

Duca - Nè in rivelarmi la fiamma indegna<br />

Sulle tue guancie sale il rossor?...<br />

Isabella - (col massimo entusiasmo)<br />

Sublime è l’uomo che in cor mi regna.<br />

E vo’ superba di questo amor!<br />

Duca - Tu di quell’uomo segnar la morte<br />

Vuoi dunque?...<br />

Isabella - Cielo!...<br />

Duca - Nella mia corte<br />

Osò sfidarmi - prigione è desso...<br />

Se tu nol salvi, doman morrà...<br />

Isabella - (supplichevole, sempre in ginocchio)<br />

Pietà!<br />

56<br />

The dawn of a serene future<br />

glows within me.<br />

Duke - I came to open the cloister’s doors for you...<br />

Isabella - Yes... death reigns within these walls...<br />

Duke - O daughter, the delights...<br />

the bliss of love... await you<br />

Isabella - (anxiously) Is it true?...<br />

Duke - (hesitantly, looking at her straight in the eye)<br />

Your marriage is being prepared...<br />

Isabella - (increasingly agitated)<br />

I am afraid to read his thoughts...<br />

Duke - (as above)<br />

You must fulfil the wishes of a man who loves you...<br />

a man who, in his heart, already considers you his wife...<br />

Isabella - (with hope) Heaven!...<br />

Duke - A trustworthy... generous man...<br />

who protected us... saved us...<br />

Isabella - (joyfully) Then my desires!...<br />

Duke - Tomorrow... Fernandez<br />

will become your husband...<br />

Isabella - (backing) No!... I’d rather die!<br />

Duke - (impetuously) Rebellious... again!...<br />

Isabella - Father... you know it...<br />

I promised my heart to another man...<br />

Duke - And you tell me of your disgraceful feelings<br />

without blushing?...<br />

Isabella - (with passion)<br />

He that has conquered my heart is a worthy man.<br />

And I am proud of this love!<br />

Duke - Do you then wish to send him<br />

to his death?<br />

Isabella - Heaven!...<br />

Duke - He dared challenge me<br />

in my own court - he is in prison...<br />

Unless you save him, tomorrow he will die...<br />

Isabella - (beseechingly, on her knees)<br />

Have pity!

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