(AN
HISTORICAL
TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
Byron
Israel Bertuccio, _Chief of the Arsenal_, }
Philip Calendaro, } _Conspirators_.
Dagolino, }
Bertram, }
_Signor of the Night_, "_Signore di Notte," one of
the Officers belonging to the Republic_.
_First Citizen_.
_Second Citizen_.
_Third Citizen_.
Vincenzo, }
Pietro, } _Officers belonging to the Ducal Palace_.
Battista, }
_Secretary of the Council of Ten_.
_Guards_, _Conspirators_, _Citizens_,
_The Council of Ten_, _the Giunta_, etc. , etc.
WOMEN.
Angiolina, _Wife to the Doge_.
Marianna, _her Friend_.
_Female Attendants, etc_.
Scene Venice--in the year 1355.
MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE.
(AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS. )
ACT I.
SCENE I. --_An Antechamber in the Ducal Palace_.
PIETRO _speaks, in entering, to_ BATTISTA.
_Pie_. Is not the messenger returned? [cv]
_Bat_. Not yet;
I have sent frequently, as you commanded,
But still the Signory[380] is deep in council,
And long debate on Steno's accusation.
_Pie_. Too long--at least so thinks the Doge.
_Bat_. How bears he
These moments of suspense?
_Pie_. With struggling patience. [cw]
Placed at the Ducal table, covered o'er
With all the apparel of the state--petitions,
Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports,--
He sits as rapt in duty; but whene'er[cx] 10
He hears the jarring of a distant door,
Or aught that intimates a coming step,[cy]
Or murmur of a voice, his quick eye wanders,
And he will start up from his chair, then pause,
And seat himself again, and fix his gaze
Upon some edict; but I have observed
For the last hour he has not turned a leaf.
