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ooklet472.qxd 18/02/2005 14.35 Pagina 64<br />

Isabella - Lo protegga il ciel!<br />

Il Duca, Isabella, il Conte.<br />

Duca - (uscendo dal castello, accompagnato dalle<br />

guardie ed alcuni cavalieri di sua corte che si fermano<br />

in fondo col Conte)<br />

Tu qui!... Rientra!<br />

24 Isabella - (agitata)<br />

Padre!... In quella chiesa<br />

Una strage si compie... Il reo delitto<br />

Chi comandò?<br />

Salvatore - (sui gradini della chiesa, pallido, ansante,<br />

col pugnale alla mano)<br />

Tuo padre!...<br />

Duca - Salvator!...<br />

Salvatore - Là... Masaniel fu spento...<br />

Vile! Tu pur morrai!...<br />

Gennariello - (trattenendolo) Arresta!...<br />

Isabella - (interponendosi)<br />

Oh! Mio sgomento!<br />

Padre!...<br />

Duca - Sì audace ancor!...<br />

Salvatore - (con disprezzo)<br />

Va’, sciagurato! Va’, maledetto!<br />

Del reo tuo sangue non vuo’ macchiarmi.<br />

Questo pugnale che al piè ti getto<br />

Come anatema ti giunga al cor!<br />

(Getta il pugnale ai piedi del Duca)<br />

In odio agli uomini, da Dio rejetto,<br />

Vivi al rimorso, o maledetto!...<br />

Coro - (avanzandosi col Conte, al Duca)<br />

Nè tu punisci l’ardire insano?<br />

Duca - (trascinando Isabella)<br />

Io lo disprezzo - Vieni, Isabella!...<br />

Vieni allo sposo!<br />

Isabella - (esitando) Padre!...<br />

64<br />

Isabella - May heaven protect him!<br />

The Duke, Isabella, the Count.<br />

Duke - (coming out of the castle accompanied by<br />

guards and some noblemen, who stop at the back<br />

with the Count)<br />

You here!... Go back inside!<br />

24 Isabella - (angrily)<br />

Father!... In that church<br />

a murder is being committed... who ordered<br />

such a heinous crime?<br />

Salvatore - (on the church steps, pale and breathless,<br />

dagger in hand)<br />

Your father!...<br />

Duke - Salvatore!...<br />

Salvatore - In there... Masaniello lies murdered...<br />

Coward! You too will die!...<br />

Gennariello - (withholding him) Stop!...<br />

Isabella - (standing in between them)<br />

Oh! What distress!<br />

Father!...<br />

Duke - Do you still dare!...<br />

Salvatore - (disdainfully)<br />

Leave, rogue! Go away, cursed man!<br />

I will not stain my hands with your guilty blood.<br />

May this dagger which I throw at your feet,<br />

be like a curse that goes straight to your heart!<br />

(He throws the daggert at the Duke’s feet)<br />

Hated by men, rejected by God,<br />

may you live oppressed by remorse, cursed man!...<br />

Chorus - (approaching with the Count, to the Duke)<br />

Will you leave this bold madman unpunished?<br />

Duke - (dragging Isabella away)<br />

I think nothing of him - Come, Isabella!...<br />

Come to your spouse!<br />

Isabella - (hesitant) Father!...

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