L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA - Les chemins du Baroque
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA - Les chemins du Baroque
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA - Les chemins du Baroque
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sinFonia beFore the ProLogue<br />
ProLogue<br />
Fortune, Virtue, Love<br />
Fortune, Virtue and Love contest their supremacy in the heavens;<br />
victory is given to Love.<br />
Fortune<br />
Pray, hide yourself, O Virtue,<br />
already fallen into penury,<br />
discredited Divinity,<br />
Deity without a temple,<br />
Goddess without devotees and altars,<br />
routed,<br />
obsolete,<br />
execrated,<br />
unwanted,<br />
and compared with me, forever despised!<br />
Once queen, now a beggar who to buy<br />
food and raiment<br />
has sold your privileges and your titles.<br />
All your followers,<br />
if from me divided,<br />
resemble a painted fire<br />
that neither burns nor blazes,<br />
leaving a buried heat<br />
lacking light.<br />
Who follows virtue may never hope<br />
to possess either riches or fame,<br />
if he is not protected by Fortune.<br />
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LE COuROnnEMEnt<br />
DE POPPÉE<br />
Ou l'émergence<br />
d'un nouveau monde