GARMAGROLA
A Play In TwO Aots
Maurice Rondon


CHARAGRERS
TRANCESCO CARMAGNOLA, a mercenary captain.
MARIA, hié mother.
ANTONIETTA VISCONTI, his wife.
THE COURT OF MILAN:
PHILIP, Duke of Hilane
SIGNOR RICCI, a dourtier.
SIGNOR LAMPUGNANO, another dourtier.
THE COURT OF VENICE:
TOMASO MOCENIGO, tho outgoing doge of Venioe.
FRANCESCO FOSCARI, the incoming doge of Venioe.
A COUNCI ILLORe
PAOLO CORNARO, a diplomat.
ADJUTANT at CARMAGNOLA's hoadquastero.
A BISHOP.
AN ENEMY PRISONER.
ATTENDANTS, SOLDIERS eto, a
NOTE
The cast can, with sone dcubling-up,
be broken down to 10 MS and 2 Fs.


THE' ACTION TAKES PLACE IN
€ LOMBARDY AND VENICE, "BETWEEN
THE YEARS 1425 'AND 14322.


SCENE
The
* 1s' divided into
stage
three areas. It will
beoome. alear in the aairse of the plày that a oertain
type of action pertaine to each. There is no odcasion
in the play tor overail lighting of the. whole set:
eaoh area ehould be. lighted separately.
Downstago 1s divided into two parts: tho THRONE
AREA on the actor's right 18 raised in such a way that
it looks straight. down into the adjacent area, called
THE PERSONAL AREA, on hie left. Thus the platform on
which the THRONE AREA is raised will provide a side-
wall for the PERSOTAL AREA
The THRONE AREA has a oentral throne with a da nopy
overhead and othort seats for members of the council,
vhether it be Venetian or Milanése. It is entored from
the actor's right only. The stago direotions gall for
a ohange of lighting, to denote the switch fram Milan to
Venide or vice verana
The PERSONAL AREA ie used as sloeping quarters, heade
quarters, a farmhouse kitohen end so on; it has a hearth,
a stout table, a bed that may be stylised (sinoe it mist
serve various porsons of differing rank), and a cabinet


whère military documente and mape may be kepta The
area is entered from the aotorts left, and also from
the third aroas
The third area, upstage and running the whole width
of the otage, is the OPEN ARRA for publio occasions,
etreets eto. This is raked ateeply 80 that at its ex-
tremep right it reaches the leval of tho raised THRONE
AREA (without joining it) and at its left runs into the
downetage BRRSONAL AREAS It is bare and merges with the
oyolorama background.


ONLY THE PERSONAL AREA IS LIGHTD. t
WE ARE IN THE VILLAGE OF CARMAGNOLA
NEAR TURIN AND THIS IS THE HOUSE OF
FRANCESCO BUSSONE, NOW KNOWN THROUGH-
OUT ITALY AS COUNT CARMAGNOLA.
HIS MOTHER MARIA IS CAREFULLY PRE
PARING THE TABLE WITH A SPOTLESS
VHITE TABLECLOTH, WINE AND GLASSES.
WE HEAR SIGNS OF MOVEMENT AT THE
ENTRANCE.
A NEIGHBOUR ENTCRS QUICKLY a ALL
NEIGHBOURS IN THIS SCETE ARE MUFFLED
IN BLACK CLOTIES.
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: I say you wan't forget will you? (HARIA
TAKES NO NOTICE) Listen- (FOLLOWING HER ABOUT)
Maria. (NO RESPSONSE, so HE SCREAMS) Do you
romember the favour I asked, you s tuck-up bitoh?
MARIA (SCREAMING BACK) And if I'm a stuckeup bitch I11
grant no favoursi
SECOND NEIGEBOUR ENTERS, TO DRAG THE
FIRST NEIGIBOUR OFF.
SECOND NEIGHBOUR: Come an joker, hots nearly here.
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: One day I'll (TREATENING MARIA)-
MARIA: Get outi out of my kitohent
FIRS' T NEIGHBOUR: She agreed this mornings the bitch--
MARIA: I've had half the village hanging roind me asking
for favours, now sling your hook, go back to your
soraggy chickens and your unwashed wifel
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: Why you-e-l
SEC CND NEIGHBOUR: What favour?


FIRST NEIGHBOUR; Fhy this nephew of mine, he's a private
in the same army, if that doesn't get him a oomn-
iseion---i But hert
SECOND NEIGHBOUR: Why just put a word in Maria-e
MARIA: And you, what's the favour you went to ask? some
of your half-dead horses for sale?
SEC OND NEIGHBOUR: Theytre not half doad. Hho tald ycu
that? (TO THE SEC OND NEIGHBOUR) Hev e you been talk-
ing?
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: Oh go to hollt
SECOND NEIGHBOUR: I've got a dozen young stallions he'll
be glad to buy---
WOMAN ENTERS.
WOMAN: Need help?
MARIA: No.
WOMAN: Hé's a aming.
MARIA: He ist
WOMAN: Didn 't you hear the trumpe eto?
OTHER NEIGHBOURS ENTER.
THIRD NEIGHBOUR: Hots got fifty horsemen. I seén him from
my window. Big-Teller.
MARIA: Hets like his fathor then--:
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: You'll talk to him eh?
SEC aD NEIGHBOUR: He cauld put this village on ite feet
and how. Build a villa up the hill for hin elf,
that creates prospority.
MARIA: For you to run your pige ovor his frant yard,
and stink up his garden with your chcose-making---
SECOND NEIGHBOUR: Oh listent - I thought the Almighty
reller hinself looked_after pigs_ono0--
POMAN: Ssahi
SEC OND NEIGHBOUR: And sat swishing a stick until they
drummed him into the army and took him away from


your dirty tongue :
MARIA: Why if his father was here--
SECOND NEIGHBOUR: He died of a broken heart, the poor
wretohed, man, you broke it Maria Bussone, you broke
WOMAN: Oh but she's righ ne-
SEC CN D NEIGHBOUR: Rich with other men's bloodt
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: Now Maria dontt listen to that-
MARIA: And what about your ora riches, you fomicating
bag of lice, with your siok sheep that can hardiy
walk and your wine that's three-quarters suger-
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: It's beoause we're norvousw
SEC CND NEIGRBOUR: And what's ho done all his life except
fight and get paid for it. They don't even fight
to kill each other, they kill un kind, they kill
the farmers--
WOMAN: Thatts righti
SEC CND NEIGHBOUR: - They pillage the towns and rape the
women, and you get rich out of itt
MARIA: Oh youtro véry loudmouthed now but wait until
he stops across that door, youvll shut your trap -
tight shut and not all the bloody geese in Christo
endom would make you say bool
WOMAN: Look,a silk tablecloth!
MARIA; Now kéep your paws offi +
WOMAN: I'm cléan in my heart at least: - I'm not rich :
by other menta blood-wat
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: Now take it easy. Maria, just 1isten
a seco ond-sns
CARMAGNOIA SEPS QUIETLY INTO TE
ENTRANCE, A CLOAK TLUNG. OVER HIS
UNIFORM, AND STANDS WATCHING THEM.
WOHAN: You*ve braight us bad luck-the grapes rottod
last year, thore weren *t any olives-


MARIA: Oh you reckon without your own evil presenco,
youra open your lege to the cattlo if you was
young enoughme-l
WOMAN : Oh you--i
MARIA: No wander you had to go to the priest to get
yourself a sm, nobody else would have you
THE WOMAN NEIGHBOUR THRONS HERSEIF
A MARIA, FULLING TABLE AND GLASSES
WITH HER, WHEN CARMAGNOLA'S VOICE
IS HEARD..
CARMAGNOLA: carefull
THCY ALL STOP.
CARMAGNOLA: That "sigood Wine, 1,
THEY #ALL WAICH HIM IN THE SILENCE.
FIRST NEIGHBOUR (TREMULOUSLY)
It's because we tre norvous,
maiting...
CARMAGNOLA: Which one ie my mother?
THEY POINT TO MARIA.
CARMAGN OLA: Good. I 1ike your tongue. That's how I
chout when things go wrong. Just. for the theatrioal
effect. It works. Well letts taste your wine.
MARIA (TO THC WOMAN) Také that to the Count Carmagnola,
SHÉ POURS THE WINE AND THE TOMAN
NEIGHBOUR TAKES IT WITH FEARTUL CARE
ACROSS TO CARMAGNOLA, FHO REMAINS
NEAR TIE ENTRANCI E.
CARMAGNOLA: Mm (DRINKING) you still know how it's done.
(HOLDING THE GLASS UP TO THE LIGHT) You 'va that
degres of art at least.: Hore (ELANDS THE GLASS BACK
TO THE W OMAN). We're hard in this village erentt
we? I'd forgotten that. io hate don't F e--hate
1ike madt You make mé feel civilised. : Give them
same wine mother and let's drink to oivilisation.
MARIA POURS OUT SEVERAL GLASSES BUT
NOT MICH, AND THE NEIGHBOURS SNATCH
IT UP IN SHORY DEFERENCE TO CARMAG
NOLA,
CARMAGNOLA: I might be rich with other men 3 blood but


I learned to be à man and not a beasts And
then you knon, they've a right to spill my blcod
too.
THEY ARE STANDING THERE AWKWARDLY
WITH TEIR GLASSES, WANTING TO DRINK
HIS HEALTH BUT HE NO LONGER HAS A
GLASS.
CARMAGNOLA! And then whatever eise I aid I made this
village famous didn't I?
SECOND NEIGHBOUR: Your health eir (RUSHING FORWARD WITH
HIS GLASS)---E
CARMAGNOLA (TAKING IT) who-will you drink to? Francesco
Buss ane? But he's a ghost. He was a little pig-
boy I left up the hill. twenty sears ago---
MARIA: Twenty years :
HOMAN (CROONING TOO) TWENTY:
CARMAGNOLA: I think yourd bettor drink to Chunt Francesco
der Visconti, to the Count of Castelnuovo, to the
Governor of Genoa, to the trinity---though not a vory
holy--whioh your pig-boy of ten became.
THEY RAISE THEIR GLASSES.
FIRST NEIGHBOUR: Long live the Duke of Milani
CARMAGNOLA (DASHING HIS WINE TO THE FLOOR AND ADVANC ING C
THE NEIGHBOUR) Dontt say thati Do you hear?
Death to the Duke of Hilant Death, go on arink
It, death to the Duke of Milans Go cni
THEY RAISE THEIR GLASSES AGAIN,
IN THOROUGHT CONFUSION BY NOW.
CARMAGNOLA: say it, go on, sey it, doath to the Duke of
Milan?
NEIGHBOURS: Death to the Duke of Milent
CARMAGNOLA (LAUGHING) How easy to make a traitors And
now drink, go on, drink to the botton. To tho
bottoms I donot want to seé a elass stained with
wineww (INSPECTING THE GLASSES AS THEY WUICKLY
GULP DOIN THE WINE)
HE REACHES MARIA.


CARMAGNOLA: And you darling, how are you? wild and un-
tamed? Thatrs how I hoped you were.
THEY EMBRACE.
TE SECOND NEIGHBOUR (WHO, AFTER GIVING
CARMAGNOLA HIS. GLASS, HAS SERVED HIMSELF
WITH TOO MUCH WINE) NOW HAS DIFFICULTY IN
DOWNING IT ALL. CARMAGNOLA NOTICES
THIS AITD WATCHES HIM.
CARMAGNOLA (STANDING CLOSE TO HIH) Greed, my friend. one
of the oardinal sins. Tould you roast for all time
just for a glass of sonebody's wine?
SECOND NEIGHBOUR FINISHES WITI A GREAT
GASP AND CARMAGNOLA PASSES HIM RATHER
LIKT A CAPTAIN WHO HAS JUST INSPEC TRD
A LINE OF TROOPS.
CARMAGNOLA: And now I expoct you're all agos to know why
we've been drinking AunAKE death to a duke I've been
serving for twelve yoars, who gave me his surname and
married me to his niecet I'll tell you why. Because
he's poor, weak, ungrateful, soheming, traitoroust
The auke of Milan began life as a seedy, veedy youth,
and bocause of me he beoame fatow-s So fat he can
hardly walk---d
A CREY, AUSTERE LIGHT COMES UP ON THE
THRONE AREA AND THE DUKE OF MILAN LIMPS
IN av A STICK WITH TWO COURTIERS HELP-
ING HIH. HE IS ABOVE GOMION HEIGHT
BUT STOOFS BADLY. HE HAS LARGE FIERCE
EYES WITH A WANDERING EXPRESSIGN AND
PROJECTING EYEBROWS: A SNUB NOSE AND
A RECEDING CHIN AND HIGH CHEEKBONES.
HIS BLACK HAIR IS UNCOLBED. THE FAT
LIIS IN ROLLS ON HIS BULL NICK AND HE
HAS SHORT HANDS WITH DUMPY FINGERS.
AT THIS TIME HE IS THIRTY-FIVE, TiO
YEARS YOUNGER THAN CARMAGNOLA.
CARMAGNOLA: Look at those eyest Piorcing: Restlesst
Suspicioust
PHILIP, DUKE OF MILAN, SITS.
CARMAGNOLA: He never looks at anything for longo DO you
noticot that? The stick, ho nover goes without it-
his ploge are 60 epindly they hardly support him-
/ley


he's been 11ke that' sincé childhood. : He spent
all his childhood schening silently, with that
lonely brain of his. Poople thought he was en
idiot. But his time came. Did you, over hear
of his brother, Giovanni-1aridme-? (THEY ALL
REACT) Ah, then news travelled as far aday as
this---how hé fed monts flesh to his dogs?
(DOGS BARK IN THE DISTANCE AND PHILIP STARTS LIKE
A CHILD) That was this nan's uncle. For ten
years that blood-stained madnan held the throne
of Milan and kept this one prisonor. Do you see
the prisoner in his eyes? Always in prisa,
always scheming to be lot out, but he never will
be, he'll never be free of his brain that ticks
like a clock, tick-tock, tick-took. But his time
dame. His brother was mrdered. And he took
the throné, with the help of my oommandert I
fought in every one of those first battles. It
was this man who pickad ne out for a 0 ammission,
with hie roving, Testless oye-r-yes, I've got to
thank his rostless eye far that:" Ànd then ny -
commander died. A vondorful man. He aied, and
this fat duke married his wire, a puro Woman 1f
ever thore was ane, inagine it, this limping maniao
in bed with-m-
FRILIP (ABSENTLY) Beatrice.
CARZAGNOLA: That mas her name. She was twioehis ago.
It was his soheming brain you seee He needed her,
she was popular. And then he murdered heri when
shetd served her. turna
PHILIP (RISING) No, not
COURTIERS: My Lord? (THEY CALM HIM BACA TO HIS SEAT)
PHILP: Don't mention deathg You know my ordors?
COURTIER RICCI: We were talking about a faloon, sir-
a fine bird---bom for the killm
FHILP: Hell don'ti
CARMAGNOLA: He brought a faise charge of promiscuit y
against hert tortured sare poor danmed youth to
make him oafess hé'a slopt with heri
PHILIP:" No not
CARMAGVOLA: And he executed her-


PHILIP: Beatrice..
PHILIP TAKES OUT A BOOK AND BEGINS
READING.
CARBAGNOLA: Aren't men strange? I tell you, wo soldiors
are straight, compared with people iike that. Hé
roads Livy and Danto and Potraroh. He once bought
a marionette Chetred for fifteen hundred gold pieces,
for his bedroome He deals in ghosts. He doesn't
foed men to the dogs but he feeds their roputationst
He fed minet His wifets:
THIE TWO COURTIERS, SIGNOR RICCI AND
SIGNOR LAMPUGNANO, ARE DRAWN CLOSER
TO PRILIP WITH A GESTURE, AND THEY ALL
BEGIN VHISFERING.
CARMAGNOLA; Look? With his two vipers, Signor Ricci on
: the left, Signor Lampitgnano on the right. Political
down to the tips of their nasty tapering fingers.
And the man ycu see enthroned botween the two of
thèm is rutty in their hands---yet hots the Duke of
Milen by May leave and doing! În twelve yoars I
built up his state far him, I won battle after
battles shy, do you think he could do it hinself?
Oh hets eplendidly dressed---the brocade, the cloth
of gold, the lace, the silk-but look at his fece,
his fincernaile---he hates thè feol of water like
he dcos the feel of a. womant And hare's another
strangeness: while he loves to put the finest
clothes on his own choulders, he can't bear them an
anybody else's. : Which is wy his two vipers look
like.undertokere. : He eats, by the way, like he'
thanks---delica ately. quaiis and turnips if you'a
roally like to knonwe-he hates fat, and every sorap
has to be pared aray from his mat. Thoro s one
thing he slavers over, like the dog he 1s, and thatte
liver aimost alive-it ofton happens in the midalo
of. the night that he.sends out hie cook to kill a
calf. And, oh, he lies-across his bed instead of
longthwise. His badroom has dauble valls to keep
out the lightning. Yes, gentlemon, we havo a
strange creature here, whom I half-oreated, whom
I turned from a shivering, neglected whelp into
the lord not only of Milan but of Piacenza, Lodi
and all the rich dities of tho Lombard plain.
And as a climaz of twelve years service I won him
the ompire of Goncas And for this last triumph he
made me governor of Gonoa, having already given me
à vast fortune, a wife and his. family name e Yes
we had wonderful times together.


PHILIP: Have we heard from the (IRONICALLY) governor of
Gonca?
RICCIO: Thé governor of Cenoats aying to be at war again,
but he hasn't decided yet who he wants to fight.
LAMPUGNANO: I think this staters had quite enough of
throne-stealers in the last few yearst
PHILIP: Thrane-stealers?
THEY WHISPER TOGETHER.
CARMAGNOLA: He listens to their lies. Theytre telling
him I'm after his thrones Yet he trusts no nane
He bribes alls He sloeps behind a double ring of 1
guards, he calls attendants to his bed all through
the night beçause hets afraid of the dark, the
silence; he had owls put in the palace rooftops
to serecoh -all night. Their weird little cries
make him feol better. I know him 8o well.
PHILIP: Camagnolats too mch of a soldier to want to
steal thrones.
RICCIO: But certain romarks---
PHILIP (WITH SUDDEN SURPRISING FERCC ITY) Balls-mant
You've got a first-class political brain but you
don't know soldiers. I picked that man up fram
the ranks---he was the son ofa peasantt looked
aftor the pigei
LAMPUGNANO: Yes, one sould always sonse, mostly thraugh
tha nose, his lack of blood.
PHILIP: I geve him bloodt Thatts how you keep groat
families alive, by opening your ranks to the
common pe oples What are you the result of?
A hundred years of incesti until you hardly had
the strength to crawl out of the vombi r
HE RETURTS TO HIS BOOK, I BUT REST-
LESSNESS GETS THEC BETTER OF HIM.
PHILIP: Is he CA the way you say?
LAMPUGNANO: mhatts what wo*ve heard.
PHILIP: My Ged that man has the power to make mo
nervoust
CARMAGNOLA (PROUDLY) There!
PHILIP: You've never seen him on the bat ttlefield. Why


hié enémies adore hime He can influonce men
as neither of you cauld,. not even if you had all
the power and. monéy in the world. And that's why
hets got to bo removedd
LAMFUGNANO: Renoved?
PHILIP: Your decadent little face lights up; but what I
mean is. sent further aray than Genoa. - I. mist keep
him active but no longet effective, like: an eaglo
that flaps his Wings but has no claws. He must
koep his respect for me. You see,a soldier has
to follow some onee The highest oommander has to
followe Thei highèst c ammander has the heart of a
little boy.
CARMAGNOLA: How right he is: a devotad little boy.
FHILIP: He's angry of course?
RICCIO: Wild, seething.
LAMPUGNANO: Composing speeches, dashing off one lotter
after enother---then ho suddonly jumps on his horse
and should be here in nn hour, if my information,
a pigean, is right.
PHILIP: Oh you and your pigeonst Half my money goss on
spies and pigeons. So what'e he angry about?
LAMPUGNANO: Your depriving him of his conmand.of the ducal
squadrane
PHILIP: There, I told you---they're like kidst Ho's
governor of Genoa, in o ormand of an arny, and he's
hurt that he loses nominal cammand of' three hundred
horsonent
RICCIO: Lly informant says he cried.
FHILIP: What, another pigeon?
RICCIO: His adjutant, my. lord.
PHILIP: og course he criode I knon him bettèr than you
ar a dozen adjutants.
RICCIO: And also you anenér none of : hie letters.
LAMFUGVANO: 7orst of all, you've put your operations
against Florence in the handa of two other men.
PEILIP: They're nercenary captaine 1ike himself.
They're to be purchased, like himsolf. Doos he


think he's the only man for sale?
RICCIO: Ho thinks you're buying inferior goods.
PHILIP: You see how ooncerned he is for my polioy?
He wishes me to have the best commanders---no,
quite sincerely. But also perhaps he wants to
rule ne.
LAMPUGNANO: Perhaps you say.
PHILIP: Yet I don't want to anger him to rebellion.
When he arrives-o--
CARMAGNOLA IS ALREADY APPROACHING
THE THRONE ARBA, VIA THE OPEN AREA.
CARMAGNOLA (FROM THE OPEN AREA) Your highnesst
LAMPUGNANO:
What shall I say---?
PHILIP: Tell him I'm busy.
PHILIP READS AGAIN VHILE LAMFUGNANO
LEAVES THE THRONE AREA AND RE-ENTERS
BY THE OPEN AREA WHERE CARMAGNOLA IS
WAITING.
LAMPUGNANO: Yes, sir?
CARMAGNOLA: I aidn't come to see you.
LAMPUGNANO:
I oan imagine that.
CARMAGNOLA: I've been. on horseback three days and three
nights-eal
LAMPUGHANO (SNIFTING DISTASTEPULLY)
I - realise that too.
Hots busy.
CARMAGNOLA: Busy? (APPALLED : AND SILENCED) Is that his
message?
LAMPUGNANO: That's his message.
CARMAGNOLA WITHDRAWS, ABASHED.
CARMAGNOLA (AS HE RETURNS TO THE PERSONAL AREA) RICOIo!
Lampugnanot Their ngamss/haunted me for days after-
wards. I rode awey shout ing 'You trinity of cunuchst'
PHILIP REGISTERS THIS, LOOKING UP


AS LAMFUGNANO RETURNS TO THE. THRONE
AREA.
CARMAGNOLA: And then as I realised as i gallopéa along
that I was riding not back to Genoa but north
tovards my own native state. That long ride
burned my anger out. And then I began to und ers
stand something. I suddenly saw what poner I
had in my own persan, apart. from anything Philip
oould give me, apart éven fron my own soldiers.
It was a resuit df being al one e
PHILIP I think I'l1 hunt.
HE LEAVES, CLAPPING HIS HANDS FOR
SERVANTS.
LAMPUGNANO: He's feeling afraid.
RICCIO: Did you see the road Carmagnola took?
THEY LEAVE TOO. THE THRONE AREA
IS EMPTY AND ITS LIGHT GOES DIM.
CARMAGNOLA: And, wouid you believe me, as I sat thinke
ing things over the duke Philip secmed to be
getting inside mo, he seemed to be telling me
scmething, how to sit down and mako a plan of
oampaign, but not with soldiers; with my own.
thoughts. First, what was ny. objootive? to
revenge myself on him? Not quite. Defeat
him, yes. Then I met find someone vho also
wanted to defeat hin, som one strongt I thought
and thoughts And ail at onde I saw a oity
higac Lould
1ike no other oity cn earth, anoiont, freo,
the
abote all wealthy, independént of popes and
soup- Au
the terror of tho Aegean, the lord of
bhRestin and Cyprus and Crote, the oustoms officér lute, Mouly.
of Aloxandria and Heliopolis, the middleman of
Europe, with spices, silke and marbaes to soli
from the East, a gréat soa-power with water run-
ning through hor streets, proteo te d by shelvos
of mud and sand aga inst not only the angor of
the soa but the envy of enemiosi and at this
moment ambition enough to want to leave her ever-
lasting akirt of water that keéps her locked on
a series of small islands, and axtend herself
acrose the luso ious farms of Lombardy---Tonigel
Ah Venicet When I thought of you, Soronissima,
I knew I waB homei
THE LIGHT GOES UP ON THE THRONE AREA


BUT THIS TIME A BRILLIANT GOLDEN LIGHT.
CARMAGNOLA: I knea you had found.your oommander.. And
I everything olse fitted into this plan of campaign
that had suddenly oom to me from Philip duke of
Milent I saw that Venice, Queén of the Adriatio,
had few saldiors, that to énter a land enterprise
she wculd need to hire soldiers. I saw thet she
was Philipts strangast enemy, that she needed his
farns, that: she, oouldn't leave her wes temn frontier
bare to himt She would 'have to enter the maroenary
market for tho first timet And she would need a
meroenary commander. She would need met
A FANFARE AS BRILLIANTLY LOUD AND
ASSERTIVE AS THE LIGHT.
THE DOGE TOMASO MOCINIGO, NOW IN. HIB
EIGHTY-FOURT YEAR, BEAUTIFULLY ROBED
IN CLOTH CF GOLD, WITH THE HORNED
BIRETTA OF OFFICE ar HIS HEAD, o MOUNTS
TO THE THRONE, PRECIDED BY THE SWORD,
SCEPIRE AND CUSHICN. THERE ARE ALSO
COUNCILLORS INCLUDING THE PROCURATOR
OF STATE (SECOND HIGHEST OFFICE)
FRANCESCO FOSCARI.
THE LION OF ST MARK AS A BANNER
COMPLETES THE BACKGROUND
CARMAGNOLA: - Frandosoo Fosaari, loader of the Bo-oalled
Young Venetians, fifty-five yoars of age and odaly
1ike Fhilip.to iook at, except that he ien't spindly
in the legs, ramembers tho dofeat Venice has just
had from tho Turks - at soa (FOSCARI WALKS A LITILE
APART FROM THE OTHERS TO DEMONS TRATE WHAT CARMAGNOLA
IS SAYING), and his thoughts are turning towarde
the pasturés and cornfiolds of Lonbardy, where Fhilip
duke of. Milan is the solo owner. He is aohing for
battle, as impatient as I am, as thwarted of action:
He wriggles in his ohain---lookt--ad if his should-
ers were already at the Job.
DOGE: Milan has déclared war on Florenoe in all but Words.
CARMAGNOLA: Hag
FOSCARI: As if wè didn't know.
DOGE: Offoung Froourator, Mr Franoesoo Fosoari, sage of the
Couril, says that we muet give help to tho Floront-


ines, that their good 1e our-good and their evil
our ovil, Young. Proourator, God created the
angelio nature, pi-whigh is the noblest af all oroated
thinge, ànd gave it certain 1imits by whioh it
should follow the way of good and not of evil,
The angele ohose the bad way that leads to evile
God punished thém and baniched them from Paradise
to tho Infemo, and from being good they becans
bad. This sama thing we say to the Florentines
who dome hero asking far a war alliance, whioh
would be thé ovil way. Gentlemen, take co mfort
that you live in peacos If ever thé duke of
Milan--
CARMAGNOLA (CRANING FORIARD WITI INTEREST) Yes?
DOGE: meomakes way against you, God 1B with you, who
s0e8 all---
CARAAGNOLA: And Carmagnola, who wine battlest
DOGE: He will s0 arrange it that you shall have the
victory. Lot us live in poage, for God 1s poace;,
and he who desires war, lot him 8.0 to perdition.
Young Procurator, God oréated Adam wise, good and
perfeot, and gave him the earthly paradise, but
Adam was disobedient, not being. ta iling to ack-
nowledge that he was merely a oreature. And God
doprived him of paradice-
CARMAGNOLA: And you of the dogeships After all you're
eighty-fourt
DOGE: mand drove him out and put hin in wer : which is
thia world, and cursed hin end all human generat-
ions? Thus vill it happen to the Florentines for
their fightings And to us 1f we join thomi
And then again, if Milan takos Florenoe the Flor-
entines will ail flook to Venice and bring thatr
oilk and wool trados vith them, and we'll grow
rich, without sponding a. penny à
SEVERAL OF THE COUNCIL: Hear, hetri
DOGE: It happened whon Lucca foll into the hands. of a
tyrant. Its wealth dame to Venioe, and Lucca
became poor. Thérefore remain in peace.
CARMAGNOLA: And a'io of boredome
DOGE: To finaiied my argument, to state in one-word
all the'benofits that a long poriod of. peace


always brings, I sould say this: our exports and
imports amount to the staggéring annual figure of
twonty-eight million, eight hundred thousand gold
ducats 0: Don't you think this is a very pretty
garden: for Venice, yoing Frocurator?
FOSCARI:
*Duca ts' *ducats't That's what old women say
when they hit the burning logs and vatch the sparke
fly upl Tell sparks are going to fly, not ducatat
FOSCARI STRIDES OUT.
DOGE: If you eléot this man as my suddessor you will have
war. And var will ruin youo It wili eat away
your res ourdeso Then' those with ten thousand duoats
will have a thousand-
A SENATOR (MURMURING)
Dicats o dudats't
DOGE: Those with ten houees. will have but onowwand
instoad of rémaining mastors of your hired soldi ers-so
CARMAGNOLA: Ha?
DOGE: You. will find yaurselves reduded to being theiz
slavesi You Will-
HE FALTERS. COUNC ILLORS. RUSH FORWARD
AS HE HALF COLLAPSES FROM THE THRONE.
DOGE (FORC ING KIS WORDS OUT) Francosoo Foscari is deceit-
ful and prouds
THE GOLDEN LIGHT IS SUDDENLY EXTINCUISHED a
WITH HURRIED, a HUSHED STEPS THE COUNC ILLORS
CARRY OUT THE DYING DOGE, WHILE THE
GREAT BEIL OF THE CAMPANILE BEGINS TO
TOLL SOLEMNLY.
CARMAGNOLA REMAINS GAZING UP AT THE
THRONE AREA WHILE THE NEIGHBOURS BACK
AWAY TO THE EXIT, HUMBLED BY THE
SUDDEN DEATH. :
CARMAGNOLA (THROUGH THE TCLLING) "Instead of being masters
of your, hired soldiers you will be thoi: r slaves..."
ras that what he was afraid of? He always used to
say to me, a meroenary commander should never risé
too hight mith that quick little roll of his eyes.
: mE BEGINS TOWALK OFF THOUGHFULLY.
BETOFE HE REACHES THE EXIT A DARK


FIGURE MOUNTS THE STILL UNLIGHTED
THRONE AREA AND ANNOUNC ES SOLELNLY
THE DGE IS DEAD: CARMAGNOLA STOFS
FOR A MOMENT, TURNS 6 THEN HE HURRIES
OUTo THE PERSONAL AREA IS EMPTY.
A GREY AUSTERE LIGHT RISES ar THE
THRONE AREA AND PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN
ENTERS VITH HIS TWO COURTIERS, a THE
DARK FIQURE,.PAOLO CORNARO, BOWS LOW
TO HIMA TE BELL .OF THE CAMPANILE
CONTINUES. TO TOLL THROUGHOUT THE FOLL
OWING SCENE, IN THE DISTANCE MOW.
THE LIGHT GOES. DOIT aN THE PERSONAL
ARGA.
CORNARO: Your highnens, I am to aay that nothing is dearer
to the Venetien people than freedom, from whioh nothe
ing---neither treaties nor lams, nor any other reason,
humen or divin@awemill make them dopart. And in Bo
far as. regards the prosent caso, the Venetien people
hold thomselvos as mich bound to stir themselves when
you. attéck Florence as they would 1f you wero on their
own frontiers. And then Florenco has'a republican
form of governmant like ours, which creates a relat-
ionshipe I an to say that a man who wants to fight
froodom. in Tuscany. viil fight it elsewhere Jater on,
1ike tyrents everyuhore+
HE BOWS AND WITHDRAWS A LITTLE e
FHILIP: It sounds like an ultimatume
CORNARO: But your troops are approaching our borders,. oir..
PHILIP: Are your borders in Tuscany all of a. sudden?
CORNERO: They-we
PHILIP: You moan vetre engeging tho Florentines after a
series 'of quite unbearablé pro'vocations. You know
porfectly veli that they're. the most slippery péople
in Italy. Do you. remembor how much they promised
Francesco da Carrara? vhom you later strangled in
his cell OHITH A SMILE)3 Oh know Her Most Serone
Republio. Wise, oldér than any of uso She knows
Iom strang and riorence weak, apart from all tho
jargon about frcedome Above all, being honour-
able, she will respeot her ten-year treaty with mo 0.
signéd (WITH ANOTHER SMILE) less than a year ago.
CORNARO: I am instructed to ask youp sir, do you nean to
repeat the mistakes of your brother (PHILIP STARTS),
To P23


when you aré Buch a différent prince, when you
exoel in powers of diplomaoy, when you have won
baok for Milan evorything that your brother lost,
and you did it not simply by force but persuasian
and 8 ound govornment?
PHILIP: Very nice. (LEANS FORWARD AND PATS CORNARO'S
HAND AFFECTIONATELY) That was it one of your
senators said when he advised you to mirder the
young Carrara in cold blood--a prince like me,
also exoelling in poners of diplomacy, a legitin-
ate sovereign and also, I believe, granted a safo
conduot to your city, a safe conduot to death as
it turned out---what was it the good senator said,
*A dead man makes no wart? Now why should Venicé
have required young Carrara not to make war?
CORNARO: Ah but, sirs carnara-
PHILIP: Let ma tell you: beoauso Carrara, young, a friond
as I am of the Serene Republic, and axoolling in
powers of diplonacy, was also prince of Padua, And
Padua 1Gwmhow nany miles from Vonice?
CORNARO: About twenty-five, sir.
PHILIP (WITH SUDDEN RAPPING FINALITY) And the borders of
Tusoany are twenty-five milos fram minet
CORNARO: Butome
PHILIP: Remember that these subtle Florentine bankers
change allies liko we.change socks. Before you
strangled young Carrara with a bow-string in his
cell---yes, yes, of course he died of cataarh---
for being guilty of having a lawful throne twentye
five miles from your oity, he asked for Florence's
.help a hundred times and was offered it a hundred
times, and a hundred times it was denicd him just
when ho needed it. Tell me, my. dear Cornaro,
why did I choose the serene Republio as a friend?
CORNARO: we are close - geogrophically----
FHILIP: Close aha'strong. Northern Italy needs two
porers to keep the poace, one watching the Adriatio
and the other the Lediterranoan, both of thom in-
dopendent of Rome and able to prosent the foreigner,
I mean of course Gormanyo with a quite impregnable
barrier.
CORNARO: Yes sira


PHILIP: Need I say that I balieve ond of the wisest
doges in zour history has junt aied? Yes I know
you belong to the other party, and that your party
is going to win. But remember, he forged this
wise alliance with mes he éven taught mo to sée
its valug. If you broak it, if you roally believe
that my anitions oxtend as far as your lagoon
whon I already have an excellent outlet to the sea
at Genoa, if you make war my dear Cornaro, the
Republic will face anothor var of
but
this tine we will follon our vietary opicoeahA up
plant
our tonts in your Piazzag
CORNARO: You daro-w-l
PHILIP: Ah, that stirs you ups that a wondorful raoo
you are 6 I don't mean I shall lay seigo to yous
But bankruptey will. Balieve me, you need a vast
exchoquer to pay noroonary saldiorsa They're
jealous, proud, demanding mant Carmagnola left
me, if you can bolieve it, beoause I denied him
the comand. of three hundred -cavalry. I gave him
a wife, my surname, a fortuno and the governorship
of Genoa but nothing appeaset a nereenary minds
THE COURTIERS NOD GRAVELY.
PHILIP: Now you +* are a thrifty Republic, you'ro merohants
and traders, nayal. mens You-liko to shon a aivide
endo But nercenary knighte show nothing for what
they win. They don't oven take prisoners. They're
more loyal to éaoh othér then they are to you and mo.
Today Hilan, tomorron Savoy, the day after-we-
Venice? After a battle thoy drink toge thert
They take gare to have no casualties. In two of
the major battles far Cremona I bolieve my oommander
lost one horse, and a trooper was cut in the leg
by one of his own spurss But then of course Igot
Cremona, Wouldn't the Sérena Republio 1ike Cremona?
Isn't she tired of being locked in the sea? - Roulan't
she 1ike to extend herself across the luscious
farmé of Lonbardy, Whore the rents come in regular-
ly and there are none of the vicisnitudes attendant
on long sea votages? That,ly dear friend, is why
youtre thinking of listening to Florence, because
you covet my lands e
CORNARO: I shall convey your answer to the Signary, sir.
PHILIP: As you probably know, I oonsult the stars closely
evory day. During cmnjunction, opposition, sextilo,
square and trine I. lock myself in. my room and deny


audiences even to delightful spokesmen 1ike
yourself. So I have a cortain experience in
the matter. And I : warn you not to embark on this
enterprise. a The 'stars are quite olear on the sub-
jeot. They foretell a plague in your city before
the end of the year. Is a plague a good augury for
the eleotion of Francesco Foscari----?
CORNARO: My lord!
PHILIP: Yes, o that was in bad taste perhaps (WITH A SMILE).
Shall we hunt a little?
CORNARO (WITH A BOW) I shall be honoured.
THEY LEAVE, PHILIP CLAPPING HIS HANDS
AS BEFORE, FOLLOWED BY THE TWO COURTIERS,
WHILE THE TOLLING BELL IN THE DISTANCE
RISES TO A FULL PLAL TO CELEBRATE THE
ELECTION OF A NEY DOGE.
AS THE LIGHT OVER THE THRONE AREA WUICKLY
CHANGES TO GOLDEN AGAIN THE NEY DOGE,
FRANCSSCO FOSCARI, ENTERS THE OPEN AREA IN
CLOTH OF GOLD FOLLOWED BY THE BANNER OF
ST MARK AND CLOSELY ATTENDED. THE PRO-
CESSION CROSSES THE OPEN AREA FROM ACTOR 'S
LAFT TO RIGHT, AND ENDS IN THE THRONE AREA.
THE OLDEST MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL STEES FOR-
WARD WITH THE BIRETTA AND PUTS IT av THE
DOGE'S HEAD WITH THE WORDS 'ACCIPE CORONAM
DUCATEM DUCATUS VENETIARUMY e A FANFARE
OF TRUMPES
THE CUSHIGN, SWORD AND SCEPTRE
PRECEDE THE DOGE TO HIS THRONE. THE COUNC-
ILLORS CLOSE IN AND CONGRATULATS HIM.
MUSIC ECHOES FROM THE SQUARE OUTSIDE.
A COUNC ILLOR: What about the announcement?
SECOND COUNCILLOR: Tell it's all vory well telling them
*We've chosen Francesco Foscari doge, 1f such be your
pleasure*, but suppose it isn't their pleasure?
After all, we Young Venetians aren't very popular.
THKRE ARE SMILES.
DOGE: You could simply announce it as a fact bg outting the
làst sentence. A break with tradition----
FIRST COUNCILLOR: A tradition of nearly a thousand years.
SEC OND COUNCILLOR: That's not true. I doubt if it came
in more than four conturies ago.


DOGE: But the anriouncement was always quito valueless,
surely? A formality.
SECOND COUNC ILLOR: The people acclaim the man ohosen.
Thoy don't. deliberate on the choice.
FIRST COUNCILLORS
Therg's a lawyer for youi
DOGE (AMID LAUGHTER) Let's cut the damned thing in half then.
GEVERAL APPROVAL. FIRST COUNCILLOR
GOES OUT AND ANNOUNCES *SER FRANCESCO
FOSCARI HAS BEEN ELECTED DOOS AND WE
HEAR THE SAMB SENTENCE BEING PASSED a
UNTIL THERE IS A GREAT DEEP ROAR OF
APPROVAL FROM A CROWD IN THE PIAZZA.
DOGE (TO THE SECOND COUNCILLOR) You said something about an
audiende.
SECOND COUNCILLOR: For. Carmagnola.
DOGE: Ah yes. t (AS_THE FIRST COUNC ILLOR RETURNS) No stones?
(MORE LAUGHTER) Theytd approvo the devil himself.
Ànd me've got to wake them upt
SECOND COUNC ILLOR: But put cn peaceful faces for tho timé being.
à 1
DOGE: Naturally. I've got a' peaod-loving speeoh for every
day of the week.
FIRST COUNC ILLOR: About Carmagnola, then?
SEOOND COUNCILLOR: Well we can hear what he has to say. a
Mind you, I'm rather chary of a man who dofécts
from anybody, evén Philip duke of Hilan.
FIRST COUNCILLOR: He did leave a fortune bohind.
DOGE: And a wife.
SECOND COUNCILLOR: Very boautiful I understand.
DOGE: That's the odd thing about the Viscontis, they turn
out the most lovely women but the ugliest men under
the sune
LESSURELY LAUCHTER.


FIRST C CUNCILLOR: The duke déprived him of his Command
as you know,
DOGE: Yoso Carmagnola mist bo an angry man. We coild do
with a little anger in the senaté, if you follow meo:
Letre have him address the senato.
SEC OND COUNCILLOR: - My, God he aoula stir theme h Have you Been
him?. Massive chape
FIRST COUNCILLOR: He's got eighty attendanto with himo
I mean, that's ohief of state lovel, isn 't it? And
crowds all
the,way from, Turin, cheering like mad.
DOGE: Hell we'il have Vonioe cheering him like mad too.
Better a soldier than an old fagey crying taucats,
ducatst all day..
COUNC ILLORS: Hear, hear.
DOGE: Clear the room for a private audiende then.
THE COUNCILLORS LEAVE EXCRPT FOR THE
FIRST COUNCILLOR WHO TAKES OUT A SLIP
OF PAPER AND READS IT TO THE DOGE (THE
AUDISDE-BRIKF).
FIRST COUNC ILLOR: Carmagnola, Francesco. Count of Castel-
nuovo. In the dike of Milants servioe ho amaseed
a private fortune of between seventy and.eighty
thousand duoats--ms
DGE: Did he by God?
FIRST COUNCILLOR: Four yearé ago he took the preoaution
of invas sangthirty thousand of thom here in Vonige,
at the Chamber of Loans.
DOGE : Hat
FIRST COUNCILLOR: He married Antoniotta Viscanti, whom ho
actually appears to love, eight years ago in 1417.
He laid the fonndations of a very ambitifous aountry
house at Broletto-Niovo. -
DOGE: Thanks. That'll do me a
COUNCILLOR LEAVES
FIRST
(WITHOUT BOWZING).
A HUSH, FOLLOWED BY SOUNDS OF MOVEMENT
NEAR THE ENTRANCE BEHIND THE DOGE'S
THRONE. CARMGNOLA ENTERS, USHERED
IN BY AN ATTENDANT, WHO WITHDRATS THE


MOMENT HE HAS DINE HIS JOB.
CARMAGHOLA IS ALL BUT COVERED IN A
GREAT RED CLOAK NOT UNLIKE THI TOGA
Or OFFICE WORN BY THE COUNGILLORS;
AND HE CARRIES THE FAHOUS *GARHACNOLA
HAT, A RED BERET LIKE A NIGHT-GAP IN
DESIGN.
THE DOGE RISES AND TAKES HIM BY THE
ELBOWS IT A KINDLY AY AND. URGES HIM
TO A SEAT'AT HIS SIDE.
DOGE: Your wife le nafe I trunte
CARMAGNOLA: I think so, yos sir.
DOGE: And will/join you here porhapso.
CARMAGNOLA:
I hope sos
DOGE: Let me put tho nattor fron the Vonetian point of
viow, our interests aren't oonfined to this sea
outside. We must keep the waterwaya of the main-
land free as vell. I maen nainly the Po. Thoae
waterways take our goods to Gomany, England, the
Low Countries, France. our trade would buffer
badly if the river PO and tho river Adige weré
blotked by too powerful. an eneny.
CARMAGNOLA; Ho will block its Hevil
off all,that
darry
rivor-trade for himself---impose levios, frielgte
chargesue
FOSCARI:
Thich we can't allora
CARMAGNOLA: Moro than thet. A year ago tho duke of Milan
ontered Vonotian territory.
DOGE (WITH A SMILE) Under your comand.
CARHAGNOLA: Your Hobt Sereno Hsghness----
DOGE (ADMIRING CARMAGIOLAS MAGNIF ICENT SHRUG) I'm tald
that running meroonary armies réquires a special
tochnique, a diplomacy all its orn. Horoenery
noldedre are costly and above all unreliable
bécause they have a habit of freely chans ing sides.
Non wo Vonetians as you know havo a natural
patriotisn which 1s far boyond personal interest.
That'e why wo ve never needed hired soldiers until
now. Ro've done our fighting ouralves.


CARMAGNOLA: I know exactly what you*re getting at. Now
I've already banked my money herow-I aia it three
years ago, thirty thousand duoatswase
DOGE: Did you now?
CARMAGNOLA: And belleve me, if I beoame Venetian, if you
gave me that honour, I'd be as good a Venetian as
the next man, I'd put Venice beyond everything----
DOGE: Beyond the Visconti family?
CARMAGNOLA:
thy? where do they come in?
DOGE: Your wife's a. Visconti. Your children will be
Viscontis. You have a son?
CARMAGNOLA: Yes.
DOGE: A Visconti.
CARMAGNOLA: But my wife'B mine, not Milanese any
more.
DOGE: Are. you sure?
CARMAGNOLA: Bring her hore and see. Sit her
among
your finest noblewomen, and see how she looks.
She'll be Bonetian in a day.
DOGE: You feel it's easy to be Venetian?
CARMAGNOLA: Not for any man. But for me---lacking a
country of. my. own, betrayed by-e.
DOGE: But we can't oease being Milanese or Venetian
or whatever it 1s just because we're betrayed.
That would be too damfortables No,: being
Venetian is. a véry special kind of destiny.
CARMAGNOLA: Let me loarn it, from you.


DOGE : And then yau're a great mên da The Republio is
joaloue of great men. We like equality. My
own ocunoillors oall me Hr Doge, nover sir, let
al one my lord. We're like that. They won't
even let me nod thank you at the end of my
council meetings, in case I am giving a secret
sign to someone or showing that I have anything
to thank thom for.m In all things I have to
oonsider myself nothing, for the simple reason
that I am head of the state. They even go out
of their way to be rude to me. My daughters
may only. marry with their permission. I ban't
opén despatohes without my counoil being present.
Three senators follow me wherever I go. My
primate letters are opened. Wes *re suspicious
or each other. Ahove' all, popularity is a most
unpopular condition to,find yourself in here.
Men have been hung for' . it.
CARMAGNOLA: All I can say is I'm a saldier. Igive
orders andI take them. Beyond that..o
DOGE: You may find yourself watohed---Sor signa of pride.
CARMAGNOLA: My job is to fight the duke of Milan, is
that right?
DOGE: : Nos Your job is to be a functioning, res ponsible
membér of the aristooracy, to persuade me and the
Benate and the Great Council and finally the people
that the duke of Milan is an enemy, and sec andly
that youtre the right man to defeat him. (LEAN-
ING FORWTARDYAND GIVING HIM A CONSOLING TOUCH)
Youtre not in Milan any more. lie don't have one-
man governments here. lie votes We have to be
porsuadeds our minds have to be moved. Notide I
aidn't say thearts Where the state is concerned
we don't have any. Now listen to me carefully.
our senfate wanta peace. I, "being. doge, naturally
want peace too because I'n thei ir symbol ênd ropres-
entative. What do you say to that?


CARMAGNOLA: You 've had peace a long time and it
brought the duke of Milan to your doorstep.
He'll ha ve Brescia in a couple of months A if you
let the weeds grow any highert That's what I've
got to say. You love peace and he loves wari
He's watohing you like a hawk, and one day he'll
swoop m(WITE A VIVID MOVEMENT).
DOGE: I'm. almost - inciined to say you should address the
senate. You might almost use that same movement,
what was it-me-? (IMITATING THE HOVEMENT CARMAGNOLA
CARMAGNOLA: Woll first of ali I'm no good at spoeches.
DOGE: You're marvellous at spoeches. You made one just
now e But senates, ny lord, are cold bodies. They
listen with closed heerts.
CARMAGNOLA: No man can make me cold.
DOE: Well if you can heat that lot up-
CARMAGNOLA: I'll tell thon the facts, that '11 heat an
icebergt
DOGE: Letts go to my apartment and agree on What the
facts are.
THE DOGE MAKES A GESTURE TOHARDS THE
IXIT AND CARMAGNOLA. AFTER A BOW PRE
CEDES HIM. THE DOGE WATCHES HIM
CLOSELY FROM BIHIND AND THEN CO OLLY
RISES AND FOLLONS HIM.
MARIA ENTERS THE PERSONAL AREA.
SHE IS DRESSED MORE LIKE A LADY HOV.
A SERVANT FOLLOWS HER WITH A. TRAY
CONTEINING COFFEE JUCS ET. WITH-
OUT A WORD MARIA GESTURES HER TO
PUT IT ON THE TABLE AND THEN DISMISSES
HER: THE SERVANT MAKES A LITTLE
CURTSEY.
PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN WITH A FALCON
ON HIS GLOVED WRIST PASSES ACROSS
THE OPEN AREA FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
IN THE COMPANY OF RICCI AND LAMPUG-
NANO, WHO SUPPORT HIM. HE PAUSES
FOR BREATH.
WHEN HE HAS WITH GREAT EFFORT REGAINED
EASY BREATRING HE LOOKS UP AT THE


SKY SEARCHINGLY.
PHILIP: Samethingts în the air today. A defeat
porhaps----it might be samet thing small. Let's
hope so.
HE SIGNALS TO THE COURTIERS TO MOVE
OFF AGAIN AND THE PARTY REBENS ITS
SLOW PROGRESS OUT BEHIND THE THRONE
AREA.
AS IT DOES so CARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE
PERS CNAL AREA.
MARIA: I knew you were coming. By the cheers.
CARMAGNOLA (THROWING HILSELF A TO THE COUCH, EXHAUSTED)
Sometimes I think they're organised. Thése
Venetiens----e
MARIA: What?
CARMAGNOLA; You can't see What thoy're at, not 1ike with
other peoplo. -+ They*ve lived together so long,
well over a thousand years, and most of the time
in trouble. You can't aig. under that kind of
unity, it's in the blood. -
MARIA (HANDING HIM HIS COFFEE) Here,
CARMAGNOLA: Youtve taken to thé life like a duok to
vater, eh? Look at your clothes. (SMELLING
THE COFFEE WITI PLEASURE) Mmi And I bet you
treat the servants like dirt.
MARIA: I know their mentalities, that's why! It's
either thom or me.
CARMAGNOLA; Thatts vhy I brought you here. I heard
you swoaring. And. then of course I thought
you'd make a good housekoeper.
MARIA (GAZING AT HIM) You've always talked like that,
sinde you were ten.
CARMAGNOLA: Wasn't I playing soldiers at ten?
- MARIA: I néver saw you play soldiers ondee You set
and dreamed, And talked like thet, as if I was
a stranger.
CARMAGNOLA: Aren't you a st rangor? It's better like
that. You see, I knew what I wanted. I wanted


to be one of the ones on top.
MARIA:
Well, you got there.
CARMAGNOLA: Db you think so? You're wrongs You
see, they 've all got minds, and I-
HE BEGINS DRINKING HIS COFFEC.
AS HE DOES so PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN
ENTERS THE TERONE AREA STILL ON
RICCI AND LAMPUGNANO. THE GLOVE
AND FALCO ARE TAKEN FROM HIM
AND HIS ST: ICK IS LEANED AGAINST
THE THRONE. RICCI HANDS HIM A
-BOOK AS HE SETTLES INTO THRONE WITH
SATISFIED SIGHS. HE OPENS. THE
BOOK AND IS AT ONCE ABS ORBED,
HIS MOUTH OPEN. HE DISMISSES THEM
WITH AN ABSENT GESTURE -A LOOSE
FLUTTERING OF HEAVY FINGERS-.-
AND THEY HURRY AWAY.
MARIA: You need your'wife if you ask mé. will they
let her come?
CARMAGNOLA: Ir I trade an army of prieonere for hér,
(SETTLING BACK MORE COMFORTABLY ON THE
Eaim) You know, I wish Antoniotta weren't
so timid.
MARIA: Who wouldn't be, of you?
CARMAGNOLA: She flinches when I look at hor. Here am
I trying to get away from the grea tness, the
trumpets and crowds, and then I see her face and
realise it all olinga to me . It ohanges a man.
Yot I don't know how I did it. I ordered men
about, and battles were won, that's all.
MARIA: Porsonality. Your father had it.
CARMAGNOLA: Antonietta oomes along and I hardly resognise
myself. I see there's something missing! Yest
HE DOZES OFF WHILE HIS MOTHER TIDIES
THE ROOM. SHE TAKES THE TRAY FROM
THE TABLE, CAREFUL TO MAKE NO NOISE.
TnO DARK FIGURES ENTER THE PERS CNAL
AREA SILENTLY AND STAND CLOSE TO THE
COUCH. HARIA TURNS AND SEES THEM.
AS ONE OF THEM MAKES TOWARDS HER
WITH A MUFFLE SHE SCREAMS AND DROPS


THE TRAY. HÉ FLINGS'A MUFFLE
ROUND HER HEAD BUT SHE HAS WOKEN
CARMAGNOLA VHO THROHS OFF THE OTHER
MAN (ABOUT TO PLUNGE A LONG KNIFE
INTO HIS SHOULDER) WITI A ROAR THAT
HAS SOMETHING TRIUMPHANT ABOUT IT.
THE TWO MEN GET AWAY.
THE DUKE IN THE THRONE AREA NEITHER
MOVES NOR TAKES HIS EYIS OFF HIS
BOOK DURING THIS ACTION.
CARMAGNOLA: Close the doors & a (DASH ING AFTER THEM)
Close the doorst
THERE ARE SOUNDS OF CAIFUSIOT FROM
BELOW. MARIA REMAINS, HALF PARA-
LYSED WITH TERROR, AND MANAGES TO
FREE HERSELF OF THE MUFFLE. SHE
BIGINS PICKING UP THE COFFEE THINGS
CROONING TO HERSELF, LIKE A PEASANT
VOMAN, "HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GODI
HOLY MARYI f
PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN LOWERS HIS'
BOOK AND BANGS HIS STICK a THE
FLOOR SLOWLY AND DELIBERATELY.
PHILIP (AS RICCI AND LANFUGNANO COME IN) You see, I was
right. Your two hired assassins made a bog-up.
(As THEY STARE AT HIM) I got it from a pigeon.
I won't fling you both downstairs and foed you to
the dogs this timé but I want to make it clear-
no more schoolboy suggestions in future. Assass-
ination never works. Mostly. it doesn 't get the
vioftim but évon when it does it changes nothing.
RICCI: Yes sir.
MARIA LEAVES THE PERSOTAL AREA WITI
THE TRAY, STILL CROONING TO: HERSELF
PHILIP: Venice will use this as a pretext for making
war with mea That ts the real reason why I'm not
throwing you down the stairs, beo ause I want the
war. I want Carmagnola as my enemy. I oan
- play with Carmagnola. I don't need hired assassins.
I can get the head off his shoulders with out
moving from this seat. (WITH SULDEN WILD FERCC ITY)
Do you hear that?
RICCI: Yes sirt


PHILIP: Help me upe We'll go to the maproom, whero
you'li both keep your noses out of my strategy.
RICCI HELPS HIM TO HIS FEET AND
THEY HOBBLE OUT, LAMPUGNANO RE-
MAINING BEHIND #OR A MOMENT.
LAMPUGNANO:
*Pigean*
AS HE LEAVES, THE TWO ASSASSINS
(NOW ALL BUT'STRIPPED OF THE: IR
CLOTHING, AND BOUND TOGETHER) ARE
PUSHED AND DRAGGED ACROSS THE OPEN
AREA FROM RIGHT TO LEFT BY ATTEND-
ANTS.
THE DOGE, THE FIRST CCUNCILLOR AND
CARMAUNOLA ENTLR FROM THE LEFT AND
STAND WATCHING THE SLON, TORTURED
PROGESS OF THE TWO. FRISONERS.
CARMAGNOLA: Poor devilst
DOGE (HALTING THE OTER PARTY s0 THAT THE T70 CRIMINAIS
ARE MORE OR LESS AT HIS FEET) What do they oall
themselves?
COUNCILLOR: Gherardo da Rubiera and Giovanni degii
Aliprandi.
DOGE: Good Godt Fho'd have namés 1ike that?
COUNC ILL OR: Only assassinst
THEY ENJOY THE IR LITTLE JOKE VHILE
THE TWO MIN WRITHE FROM THEIR BURNS,
COUNCILLOR: They donfessed on the stoves to béing in
the hire of Philip duke of Milan.
DOGE: Well, I oould guoss that. (TAKING CARMAGNOLA'S
ARM AND MOVING AWAY) I tell you what, you might
got it into your spoech---- *they tried to murder
me after twolve years loyal service', that sort
thing, Youtre a-t born sh: owman after all.
THE PRISON PARTYMOVE OFF.
DOGE: Anyway, let's séo whét we can do.
COUNCILLOR:(TO CARMAGNOLA) I should have thought you were
gsed to assassinations.
CARMAGNOLA: I am, but only other people's. It shows what


a different level I'm on non e A man of statet
(WITH SCETHING LIKE AWE OF HIMSELF) Not a simplo
soldier any morel
DOGE (AS THEY PASS OUT OF SIGHT) Well, thatts honest of
you (GLANC ING AT THE FIRST COUNCILLOR).
THE STAGE IS EMPTY FOR A MOMENT.
THERE ARE SUDDENLY THE LAST IMPLORING
CRIES OF THE TWO ASSASSINS FOLLOWED
BY TWO GREAT SPLASHES, FOLLOWED BY
SILENCE.
THE DOGE FIRST COUNCILL OR AND CAF
MAGNOLA STROLL INTO THE THRONE AREA
SMILING 4RD CHATTING.
DOGE (GOING TO THE THRONE). - Now suppose you. stand there
(TO CARMAGNOLA). No, a bit nearer, that's right:
just to give the idea that you're supporting me
while.I'm talking. Right well, I shbot. off with
(HE BEGINS PREPARID SPRECH) : Senators, there
are two things which in our Republia are thought
very pleasant, but which have involved us in
trouble, and they. - are peaoe and frugality.
COUNC ILLOR: Hear, heart
DCGE : Too fond of an easy time, too greedy for thé
quiokt bargain: - 1s that to bè said of our Republic?
Senators, judge for yourselves when you hear thé
facts. I give you Carmagnola.
CARMAGNG TOLA: I've warked for the duke of Hilen for twelve
yoars. I won him the plains of Lombardy, the
f inest port on the Mediterranoan coast, I'even
brought him to your own frontiers! For these
twelvop years of serveice I am barred the mante
presenoe. No explanation, no regretst And he'll
âo the same with all his friends. You have a
treaty with hime He' '11 uso it thile it suits
him, then fling your envoys into prisont Hets
planning it already. Gentlomen, none of you
know. . that, but I know it. He used to talk to
mo whole nights tage thér 9 pac ing up and - down his
bedroom when he couldn't sloep. ne's after
Brescia and
Hè lusts after them like
Bergamo.
a lover. You don't know that but I do. He
means to have Tuscany--- that you know. But
he moans to have all of northern Italy. He
means to have yous He means to lay soige to
this most lovoly, most splondidly endowed of
all cities. And you're going to wait for him?


I docided, for mysolf, not to waits I left my
wife and children behind. I shall fight to get
them baoki I hope I shall fight for this great
Ropublio, this empiret Even as an ordinary soldier
if you let me. Bocause I've found my
country fhgnde last, a place whère justice and bounty
and every virtue go together, whore each man gets
his due, where rascality is unknown in high placest
DOGE (INTERRUPTING HIM) I wouidn't say-that if ' I were you.
: I moan, they might think you a fool and, we dan't
want that. Go on to the next bit.
CARMAGNOLA: And now I want to tell you something that no
one else, inoluding Philip duke of Milan, knows. a
It is this.. Philip duke of: Milan ien't atrong at
this moment, he ien't half as strong as he appears
or as he thinks. And all this for a very good
reason, that I'm not with him any more. I was his
strengthT And that's why, gentlemen, this wild
Milanese aggress or sent two hired asnassins to this
city only forty-oight hours ago to murder me---to--
DOGI: Do you think you could make your voice break thore,
on 'to murder me ?
CARMAGNOLA: And that's why, that's why, gentlemen, this
wild Milanese aggressor sent two hired assassins
to this oity only forty-eight hours ago to murder
mewe-after twelve years servicet
DOGE (TO THE FIRST COUNCILLOR) That ought to tug at tho ir
hoartstrings.
COUNCILLOR: If thoy've got any.
CARMAGNOLA: Well, they failed of their purpose, as you see.
And Philip duke of Milan now has to face the possib-
ility that you may put me at the head of your armies,
to fight himt Ho knows what I oan dot That's why
he wanted to removo me't He knows that my leaving
him makes him twice as weak and my oaming to you makes
you twice as strongi This then 1s the moment to
moint an attacks Get your hand in fireti of course
gentlemon I oan't guarantee that there aron't other
budding Carmagnolas in thé Milanese camp-e-1 (AS
AN ASIDE TO THE DOGE) I'm hoping this drans a laugh.
DOGB: Quito right, it will.


CARMAGNOLA; But 'one thing I do know: whether you put
your armies under me or another, there isn't a
oommander in the land of better faith towards you,
of more inexhaustible loyalty to Vonioe, of great-
er hatred: t owards our conmon eneny, than the men
you see sténding bef ore you. now :
FIRST COUNCILLOR: Jolly gooda
DOGE: That might very well get théme (TURNING TOWARDS
THE IMAGINARY AUDIENCE TO COMPLETS HIS PART OF THE
PERF ORMANCE, SPEAKING WITH SUCH VIOLENCE THAT THE
VEINS STAND OUT ON HIS NECK) Senators 'you have
heard the facts.. If that insensate tyrant 1sn 't
oheokled he '11 overrun the whole peninsulat When
hets finished with Florence he'll start on yout
It's var, he nantsi And it's war he 11 havel
A GREAT ECHOING CHEER COMES FROM THE *
PIAZZA, WITH THE SOUND OF DRULS AND
TRUMPRIS AND THE PRALING OF THE CAM
PANILE. THE DOGE AND CARMAGNOLA
EMBRACE TRIUMPHANTLY AND LEAVE THE THRONE
AREA WITH THE FIRST COUNCILLOR BEHIND
THEM.
THE SOUNDS RISE TO A CLIMAX AS A
PROCESSION HEADED BY HE DOGE AND
CARMAGNOLA BIGINS TO WIND ITSELF ACROSS
THE OPEN AREA FROM RIGHT TO LET.
PAOLO CORNARO STEPS INTO THE THRCNE
AREA TO SHOUT AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOVE THE
NOISE WHILE THE LIGHT ABOVE HIM DIMS
FROM VENETIAN GOLD TO MILANGSE GREY.
CORNARO: The following terms will be signed butweon Venice
and Florences Each party to send into the field eight
thousand horse and three thousand foot. A naval
equadron for the defence of the river Po will be
raised at mutual expense. The Republic of Venice
shall control the
movement of all armies, and.
conclude peaoe whenever it wante to, oven sép-


arately. Conquests in Tuscany and the Romagna
shall go to Florence. (PAUSE) Conquests in
Lombardy shall go to the Renublic a Venice.
TRUMPRTS. PHILIP DUKE. OF, MILAN WITH
HIS TWO COURTIERS ENTERS THE THRONE
AREA AND PAOLO CORNARO, HAVING FINISHED
HIS ANNOUNCIMENT, TURNS TO BOW TO HIM.
PHILIP: But you're infringing our 1421 treaty.
CORNARO: You have attacked Ferrara and Mantua, sir.
That killed our treaty stone dead.
HE BOWS AND LEAVES.
LAMPUGNANO: Every analysis of the stars, from at least
eix quite independent sources, ohows you are going
to win.
PHILIP: And then there are my gifts as well.
CARMAGNOLA MVTERS THE PERSONAL ARLA
WITH A BISHOP. CARHAGNOLA IS DRESSED
FOR BATTLE.
CARMAGNOLA; What I mean is I'vo never been satisfied,
bit by bit I'vo won everything---militery rank,
noneys a pretty, aristocratio wifc, a house in tho
country or at léast the foundations of one, and
now tho comnand of one of the finest armies in
Italy, in the service of the finest state, and-m
BISHOP (SITTING DON) I'n glad you naid that. About the
finest state, I moen a Even the priosts hére aro
Venetian. They put Venice noxt to God and higher
than the Church. Remember that,
CARMAGNOLA: You're a wonderfully cala lot whon it oomes
to your etate. All he said when that kilanese
agent nearly. plented a dagger in my chest was,
Mention it in your apeech. It might go dovn
well with the eenate.'
BISHOP: Who seid?
CAR/AGNOLA: The dogo.
BISHOP: Oh, his job is being cold. That'a what ne pay
him for. so you can't free yourself of desire?
Well, well, you're like most of the creatures who
live and aie.


CARMAGNOLA: You see, I oantt stop myself wanting
somothing higher, always.
BISHOP: When yau want the highest thing of all,. the
rest no longer s'oan te. was it ever reaily
rank and power you wanted? was it. ever anything
outside?
CARMAGNOLA:
Outside?
BISHOP: Isn't it something inside, you want, and néver
get? 'and the more-you get outside, the more you
see how much le S8 you're getting inside?
CARMAGNOLA: Oh I believe in God all right if that's
what you meano After all, he demonstrates him-
self in evory ba ttle.
BISHOP: How? In' victories?
CARMAGNOLA: Not alwaye. In defeats somotimes; if I
haven't watohed my behaviour.
BISHOP: Is that the kind of God you have? Ho rewards you.
if you pray, and punishes if you den't?
CARMAGNOLA: He rewards for a pure heart.
BISHOP: Ah, there yau're nearer. But not near enough.
He doeen 't reward with viotories and rank and
all the other things you beguile yourself with.
Tho puro heart is it's own reward. If you live
towards that, as an ond in itself, the only sane
end, you'll be all right, the othor things disappear.
Instead of looking on' victory or an aristooraotio
wife as tho reward of a pure hoart look on a pure
heart as tho ob jeotive of every victory, every
action. s pure heart 1s a kind of home, you see.
The only placo you can rest. There are no desires
beyond it. And I dan't mean being virtuous.
I mean having peace, inside. I mean the silence
right inside you. When you make that the centre
of your life, everything elso will" radiate from
it, including the mind you say you want. You can 't
have a mind without it.
CARMAGNOLA: How do I find thia silenco?
BISHOP: Let me put it this way. Compared to the god
you are in your own silence, you are nothing with
all the militery rank in thé world. In that silence
alone are you a god. And you are aching to be a
god in the other way, with rank and ciroumstanoe,


and it won't work.
CARMAGNOLA: But supposing he koeps hor? (GAZING UP
AT PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN) Even kills her?
BISHOP (FOLLOTING HIS GAZE) what are you thinking of?
Reverse your thinking! It's either a wife or
a dofeat or a house in the countryt Take your
thoughts off lifo-amyou'll find it ian't life at
alli Think from the indide outwards, not from
the outside in. Don't you see that this is the
only way to get your will? Live a pure life,
find the silence I'n talking about, if only for
a few momenta every aay, and thén the outside will
look after itself. You mean Philip?
CARMAGNOLA:. of course.
BISHOP: But how can he influenco you if youtre strong?
And how can he fail to beat you if you think all
the time, oh suppose he does this, supposo he keeps
my wife, suppose he Bigns a separate poace with Venioe---
CARMAGNOTA:(IN A STORM AT ONCE) what, is that a possibility?
BISHOP: Look at you! Look how unsteady your thoughts aret.
You expect me, a priest, to know more than you do
about cur affairs of state? An ignorant man 11ke me
makes en idle analogy and it throns you off your
balanoe. You should be a rock of strongth, but
you oan't found that on victorios. I It has to come
from insidet
CARLAGNOLA; Youfre a born Venetien. You've got politios
in your blood. You night have known somethingo
BISHOP: My dear son, 1f you think of your wife as a
hostage in Philip's hands, this 18 what she'll
becamet re treat people as they treat themselves.
If you tell God you are frightened of Philip,
this gives Philip power! Te see people, in the
end, as thoy see thomselvest
CARMAGNOLA: A saldier is so Heake
BISHOP: If you treatad your prieste less like batmen
you might be stronger.
CARMAGNOLA: I doubt it.
BISHOP (LAUGHING) So do
to be quite honest---oon-
sidering the. kind & cloth that gets into tho
army nowadays.


BATMIN ITER THE PERSONAL AREA
WITH CARMAGNOLA'S ARMOUR AND SPURS.
THE BISHOP RISES TO BLESS CARMAGNOLA,
WHO KNEELS.
TOGETHER: Pater noster,, ,qui es in caolis, sanotificotur
nomen tuum, Advéniat regnum tuuma Fiat voluntas
tua, sjcut in caelo, et in terra. Panem nostrym
ootidianum da nobis hodie, Et dinitte nobis débita
nostra, sicut ,et nos dimittinus dobitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a
malo. Amen.
BISHOP: Pax et benedictio Dei omnipotentis, Patris, et
Filii, (SIGN OF THE CROSS) et Spiritus sanoti,
descendat super voB, et maneat semper.
CARMAGNOLA: Ameni
CARMAGNOLA RISES.
BISHOP: Rémember there is one place where you've never
been rejeoted, never once been hurt or baffled,
and you'can only find it. in yourself, in silence
and alone.
THE BISHOP LEAVES.
CARMAGNOLA IS IRESSED FOR BATTLE.
ANTONIETTA VISC ONTI, A WOMAN OF
TWENTY-SIX, 'EN TERS THE THRONE AREA
AND CURTSEYS TO PHILIP. HE
DISMISSES HIS COURTIERS ABRUPTLY
AND SEATS HER BY HIM.
PHILIP: They*ve declared war. Your husband is now
an enemy commander.
ANTONIETTA: Yes.


PHILIP: You've been erying. I never thought of myself
as a matchmaker but this time I seem to have dané
the tricki
ANTON IETTA: He needs looking after, he---!
PHILIP: Are you saying you want to join him in Venide?
(SUDDENLY IN A RAGE) To nurse the commander of
f oroes. desgemed to orush the Visoonti family? what
kind of loyalty is that?
ANTONIETTA: I only thought---1
PHILIP: . I can't stand the way women thinki
HE SNATCHES UP HIS BOOK AND BEGINS
READING. - SHE RISES TO GO BUT HE
PREVENTS HER WITH AN ABSENT HAND,
KEEPING HIS EYES CN THE BOOK.
PHILIP: You say he needs looking after. That means he's
a child. In What way a ohild?
ANTON TIETTA: Oh----the way he thinks happiness is always
round tho oorner, never here and now. Wanting
something different all the time.
PHILIP (WITH SOMETHING LIKE DISGUST) A dreamer.
ANTONIETTA: But he makos his. dreams come true and it
doesn't change anything!
PHILIP: He can hardly read or write---you know that of
course?
ANTONIETTA: He éanfesses a dozen times a day.
PHILIP (LAUGHING) How delightful: You might as voll
confess a horse! Carmagnola oantt do wrongi
It's péople like me who need confession TABRUPTLY
SERIOUS AGAIN)
ANTONIETTA: Unole----i
BUT HE IS LOST IN THOUGHT.
CARMAGNOLA: Getting to high places poses the question,
where can I go higher? And if. I can't go higher
than this, what. mas the point of coming all this
way? I remember the duke. of Milan saying---
PHILIP:
-People like me, my dear, are placed bi our
positions next to the Person we know less about
than the poorest farmer. I mean God.


ANTONIETTA: Yés unoles
PHILIP: Still, He keeps us on the move.
CARMAGNOLA: I've been galloping all my 1ife, galloping,
galloping!
BATTLE TRUMPETS SOUND FROM THE OPEN
ARIA.
COURTIERS RUSH IN TO PHILIP.
RIOCI: Seven or eight thousand enemy are in front of
Bresciag
PHILIP:. Who's in oharge of their engineering?
RICCI: Nicolo da Tolentino.
PHILIP: Dams (STRUGGLING TO RISE) He's the cleverest
Bnake in
Vetve lost Broscia. I can
promise you
CusCanyl
THE COURTIERS SUPPORT HIM ATAY.
PHILIP: And get rid of that woman!
LAMPUGNANO GESTURESHER CUT ROUGHLY.
DRUMS ROLL FROM THE OPEN AREA. OTHER
DRUMS MARK TILE VITH MARCHING FEET.
THE LAST TOUCHES ARE: BEING FUT TO
CARMAGNOLA'S OUTFIT.
PAGES BEARING BANNERS ENTER THE OPEN
AREA, ONE FROM EACH SIDE. THE ARMS
OF TAE VISCONTI COMÉ FROM THE RIGHT,
ST MARK'S LION FROM TE LIFT. THESÉ
BANNERS VALK TO TIE SOUND OF THE DRUMS.
THEY MEET EACH OTHER IN THE CET TRE
AND THEN TURV AND COLE DOENSTAGE
WHERE THEY DIVIDE AGAIN AND S TAND
ONÉ ON EACH SIDE OF THE OPEN AREA,
FACING THE AUDIENCE.
CARMAGNOLA'S ADJUTANT INTERS THE
PERS CNAL AREA BEARING A BLOODY
GAUNTLET. HE SHOWS IT TO CARMAGNOLA.
AN ATTENDANT FOLLONS BEHIND HIM ZIT
TWO BLOODY GAUNTLETS AND TWO LANCES
DIPPED IN BLOOD. ,


CARHAGNOLA: From Piooinino?
ADJUTANT: Yes sir.
CARMAGNOLA (CHUCKLING) The old rascal. I knew hetd get
the oommand of that outfit. But I'll have him by
the short and curlies, don't you worry about that.
ADJUTANT (BRING FORTARD THE ATTENDANT : WITH THE LANCES AND
GAUNTLETS) And here are our pledges.
CARMAGNOLA (GIV ING THEM A CURSORY GLANCE) Right Bend them
over.
THE ADJUTANT DISMISSES THE ATTENDANT.
ADJUTANT: Five thousand horse and a thousand foot are
formed up in front of the city in excellent order.
CARMAGNOLA: And you're feeling nervous. I'oan tell by
your voioo.
ADJUTANT: Well-
CARMAGNOLA;
Whereas the closer I get toa battle the more
I like it.
ADJUTANT: I'vo had two proveditors from Venice worrying
me all moming. They'ro enough to make anybody
nervous.
CARMAGNOLA: By the way, nake a mention of them in our
next despatch, when we're announoing this viotory.
Remind me. Something 1ike 'I've noticed you've
detailed two young Venetian noblemen to my head-
quarters whom you oall proveditors. I oall them
spios." e Something pithy.
THE ATTENDANT WITH THE LANCES AND
GAUNTLETS GOES ACROSS THE OPEN AREA
TO THE TIME OF THE DRUMS, FRCM LEFT
TO RIGHT.
ADJUTANT: Every time a demijohn of Cyprus goes into one
the tents they make a note of 1t. Well, almost,
anyway.
CARMAGNOLA: Commeroial minds make maritime empires, my
child.
ADJUTANT: Er--they want to see the battle.
CARMAGNOLA:
Tell them to go to hell. No, bettor still,


put a couple of ohairs where they can catoh a
stray cannon ball or two. That'll fix sem.
( TO THE BATHEN) Now come on, you people, you've
had lang enough.
THE BATMEN PUT THE LAST TOUCHES TO
THIS.MOST UNVIEDLY OF HAR COSTUMES
AND THEN STAND ASIDE.
CARLAGNOLA: And now 80 aray, all of you.
TE BATMEN AND ADJUTANT SALUTE THEIR
WAY OUT. CARMAGNOLA KNEELS TO PRAY.
A BOMBARIHENT OF SIEGE WEAPONS BIGINS
(MORE MIGHTY THUDS AND CRACKS THAN
CRASHES) BUT IT IN NO WAY. DISTURES
CARMAGNOLA.
THE. ADJUTANT ENTERS THE OPEN AREA
FROM THE LEFT WITH THE TNO VENETIANS
(PROVEDITORS), FOLLOWED BY ATTENDANIS
WITH TWO CHAIRS. THESE ARE PLACED
TO FACE THE RAKE OF THE OPEN AREA.
TIK PROVEDITORS SIT DOWN AND THE
ADJUTANT BONTS HIS WAY OUT AGAIN.
BUGLES SOUND WHILE. CARMAGNOLA FRAYS
IMPERTURBABLY.
CARMAGNOLA: God grant me yet another viotory. And may
Piccinino leave a fiank open like he. usually does.
Give ma the mind to understand cold hearts----
HE BREAKS OFF AS IF THE THOUGHT
BAFFLES HIM. THEN HE CROSSES HIMSELF
AND RISES SLOWLY. THE ADJUTANT ENTERS
AT ONCE, AS IF KE HAS BEEN VAITING AT
THE ENTRANCE FOR THIS SIGN. a
CARMAGNOLA (RUBBING HIS HANIS) Nont
THE SOUNDS OF BOMBARDMENT AND DRUMS AND
BUGLES RISE TO A CLIMAX AS CARMAGNOLA
AND HIS ADJUTANT FOLLOWID BY ATTENDANTS
ENTER THE OPEN AREA FROM THE LITT AND
PASS THE PROVEDITORS.


FIRST PROVEDITOR: Good luck sirt
CARMAGNOLA STOPS AND TURNS.
CARMAGNOLA: I don't win battles with luck.
HE MAKES A SLIGHT BOW AND PASSES a.
WHEN HE AND HIS ATTENDANTS ARE OUT
OF SIGHT THERE IS A BURST OF CHRERING.
THE SOUND OF CIASHING STIORDS JOINS THE
OTHER SOUNDS. THERE IS THE THUDDING
GALLOP OF HORSES. THE PROVEDITORS
SHON NO SENSE OF DANGER.
SECOND PROVEDITOR: If he wins battles like he spends
money he should do all right.
A LANCE LANIS MORE OR LESS AT HIS FEET
AND HE PICKS IT UP AND EXAMINES IT.
FIRST PROVEDITOR: Good God, looki He doésn 't B eem to
think aannons hurts
A TRUMPET SOUNDS FOR AI ADVANCE.
THERE ARE BLOODOURDLING CRIES.
SEC OND PROVEDITOR: Look outs
HE JUMES UP.
FIRST PROVEDITOR: He's offt He's deadt My God our
commander's deadt
A GREAT CHEER GOES UP.
SEC OND PROVEDITOR: Theytre throught This is botter than
a son-fight--what do you say?
FIRST PROVEDITOR: (FALLING, BACK IN HIS CHAIR) But that's
an expensive viotory by God---our commander gone-
the finest military nind in Italy.
SIC OND PROVEDITOR: He may only be wounded.
FIRST PROVEDITOR: But he aidn't move.
ANOTHER CLIMAX OF NOISE.


SECOND PROVEDITOR: He'e walking this wayt
FIRST PROVEDITOR: The man's a spiritt He oan*t havo
got upt
SECOND PROVEDITOR: Hero---thoy're letting the prisoners.
got
FIRST PROVEDITOR: what?
SECOND PROVEDITOR: Thoy're valking back to thoir omn
lines-- Theyeré evén shaking handst They'ro
joking: Itts iike a game. Then what were all
those oannon# for? -
FIRST PROVEDITOR: Itts. a drinking
party:
SECOND FROVEDITOR: C And the battle's still ont
CARHAGNOLA ENTRS FROM THE RIGHT
WITH ALL THE FINERY TAT TOOK so LONG
TO HLAP ON HIS SIOULDERS NOW BITER
TORN ORGONG.. HIS FACE IS MARKED
WITH BLOODe HE SHOWS NO SIGN OF
BEING AWARE OF THIS. HIS ADJUTANT
FOLLOWS; CASTING AGHAST GLANCES : BEHIND
HIH.
FIRST PROVEDITOR: But I saw you fallt You were trampled
ont Trampled to deathi
CARMAGNOLA: Death? Good God, we never set killed in
battles, mane We nee to that.
FIRST PROVEDITOR: But the prisonert sir?
CARMAGNOLA:
That prisoners?
FIRST PROVEDITOR: The chaps going baok to.t their own lines-a
CARMAGNOLA: They're Piccinino's. Theytro not under my
command.
HE LEAVES.
FIRST PROVEDITOR:
Well I'm damneds
THC SOUNDS OF BATTLE MERGE WITH HE
PEALING OF TIL CAMPANILE IN VENICE D
AND A TRIUNPHANT. CHEER AT THE SIEGÉ
OF BRESCIA BIC OLES THE CHEERING OF A
GREAT CROWD IIT THE.PIAZZA OF VENICES


THE VISCONTI BANNER WALKS ACROSS TO THE
VRNETIAN BANNER AND CEDES IT. THE
VISCO ONTI PAGE THEN FOLLONS THT BANNER )
OF ST MARK OUT LEFT WITH LOWERED HGAD,
AS A GOLDEN LIGHT BRIGHTENS THE THRONE
AREA.
THE DOGE ENTERS THE THRONE AREA IN CLOTH
or GOLD WITH HIS FIRST COUNCILLOR. HE
HAS A DESPATCH IN HIS HAND.
DOGE: - see this? 'You call thom provoditors. I call them
spies. I like his choeks But what a viotory eh?
FIRST COUNCILLOR: Well, tho bill hasn t como in yet.
DOGB: On tho contrary. Itts a pity we aidn't enter this
meroonary wer-market oarlier.
FIRST COUNCILLOR: Do you know the stary about Siena? One
of their merconary commanders was so sucoessful that
they had to have a eanference about how much to pay
him, to koop hin in their service. And do you imow
what they decided?
DOGE: No?
FIRST COUNCILLOR: To kill him. In that way the victories
remained theirs, and he did too.
DOGE: Ah but this gentleman's a Venetian. As from today.
CARMAGNOLA INTERS TIE OPEN AREA FROM
THE LEFT WITH HIS ADJUTANT AND THE
TWO PROVEDITORS. HE IS IN CEREMONIAL
IRESS. A CANOFY IS CARRIED OVER HIS
HEAD o
THE DOGE WAITS FOR HIM TO REACH THE
THRONE AREA WHERE THEY EMBRACE EACH
OTHER WITH GENIAL FAMILIARITY.
DOGE (DRAWING HIM ASIDE) I just wanted to tell. you this.
-we decided in council this morning to form a state
on the banks of the river Adda. That state shall
be yours, to govern as an indopdent prince--
CARMAGNOLA: Hal
DOGE: dmif you can clear the rivor of all enemy and take
Pavia.


CARMAGNOLA: That's something to think about.
DOGE: We're sending a fleet up the POer
CARMAGNOLA: Just whon I was looking forward to a holiday!
THEY LAUGH AND FORM THE HEAD OF A
PROCESSION WHICH LIAVES THE THRONE AREA
AND, TO A CRESCENDO OF BELIS FROM EVERY-
WHERE IN THE CITY, WINDS ACROSS THE
OPEN AREA. BOTH THE DOGE AND CARMAGNOLA
ARE UNIER THE CANOPY NOH. A FANFARE
OF TRUMPETS..
FHILIP DUKE OF MILAN APPEARS IN.THE
PERSONAL AREA IN HIS NIGHT SHIRT. HE
STOPS AND WATCHIS THE PROCESSION WIND
AVAY. THE SOUNDS or CELEBRATION DIE
AND THC LIGHT BEGINS TO FADE. HE
CROSSES HIMSELF AND BOWS TO ALL FOUR
CORNERS. NIGHT BEGINS TO FALL AS
HE DROPS TO HIS KNEES AND PRAYS.
FLC PRAYS FERVEN TLY, s TWISTING HIMSELF
SUDMMILY UNTO ANOTHER POSITION UNTIL
HE HAS COMPLETED THE FOUR CORNERS.
THERE ARE THE CRIES CF OWLS FROM THE
PALACE ROOFS.
HE REMAINS IN ONE PLACE, PROSTRATED,
HEAD ON GROUND, IN PRAYER.
A WIND RISES. THE OVIS MAKE ALARMED
CALIS. A FLASH OF LIGHTNING MAKES
FHILIP JUMP WITH TERROR. VHIN ANOTHER
FLASH. COMES HE SCREANS IN A MOST UN-
EARTHLY WAY AS IF HE HAS SEEN HIS
MURDERER.
A STUPEN DOUS CRASH OF HUNDER SENDS
HIM DARTING TO THE BED WHERE HE THRONS
ALL THE CLOTES PELL MELL OVER HINSELF a
FOUR COURTIERS RUSH IN. THEY SEFH. TO
KNO7 WHAT TO DO.
PHILIP: No& Nos
HEY ALL JUMP ON THE BED AND so SURROUND
HIB THAT FE IS COMPLETELY HIDDEN . THE
STORIA RAGES, LIGHTING UP THIS STRANGE
ASSEMBLY. THE RAIN BEATS AGAINST THE


roofs.
PHILIP: Prayi Prayt
THEY RECITE WITH UNBELIEVABLE SPLED
PART OR VHOLE OF THE FOLLOWING PRAYER
AGAINST STORMS.
COURTIERS: Deug, qui culpa offénderis, pooniténtia placéris:
préces populi tui gupplicentis propitius réspioe; et
flagélla tuae iracundiae, quae pro peccétis nostris
memémir, averte.
A domo. tug, quiesunus, Dgmine,
: quftiae repellantur: et aerearum usceritvhcs maldgnitas
tempestatum.
- - - Omdpotens sempitérne Dous, parco metuéntibus,
propitiere supplicibus: yt post nozios ignes nibium
et.yim procellgrun in materiam transeat laudis oomm-
initio rompestatum.
Domine Jesu, qui. imporisti ventis et mari, ot
facta fuit tranquillitas: magna: exaudi preoes familiae
tuae, et praesta; ut. hoo signo sanotae Cry-(SIGN OF
CROSS)-cis ounis discegat saovitia tampestatum.
Omnipotens et misericors Deys, qui nos et cast-
igando sanas, ot ignoscéndo consorvas; praesta gupp-
lcibus juis; ut et tranquillitotibus hujus optatae
consolationis lgetamur, et dono tuae piotatia semper
atamur. Per Dominum. Amen. o
DURING THIS PRAYER THE STORM GRADUALLY
SUBSID3S.
RICCI (IN AN OFFICIAL TONE) The prayer has been enswered.
PHILIP (IN UTIER EXHAUSTION) Take me ups tairs. Send a
sword in front.
ONE OF THE COURTIERS DETACHES HIMSEIF
FROM THE.GROUP AND STANDS WITH HIS
STORD DRAWN. PHILIP EMERGES FROM THE
TULBLE BRDCLOTHES TREMBLING. THEY
AIL LEAVE TIE PERSONAL AREA HEADED
BY THE SWORD.
LIGIT COES UP ON THE THRONE AREA AS
PHILIP SHUFFLES ACROSS THE OPEN AREA
TOWARDS IT LIKE AI OLD HAN, SUPPORTED
BY HIS COURTIERS.
TIE COURTIER WITA THE SWORD IS THE FIRST
TO APPEAR IN THE THRONE ARKA. HE HOLDS
THE SWORD BEF ORE THE THRONE 6 AFTER


A PAUSE PHILIP APPRARS. HE STARTS
WHEN HE SEES THE SWORD..
PHILIP (BACK TO HIS USUAL SELF) Put that damned thing aweyt
(AS HE SITS) Let me seo it. That's not---blood,
is it?
HE TOUCHES THE POINT OF THE SWORD GIN-
GERLY. A GREAT SILENCE PERVADES THE
SCENE.
COURTIER: I think the blood of a Florentine, yes d
PHILIP: Good God. Do you know, if I had an hour at war
I should aie. Bring my niede to me a And some
fresh liver.
A COURTIER GORS OUT.
PHILIP: The storm oame up while I was praying. God
knows what more I can do. Thoy've given him civic
honours, I seo.
RICCI: Who, my lord?
PHILIP: Carmagnola. He's a member of the Great Counoil
too-a Venetian nobleman. But do: you think he can
ever make a gentleman?
LAMPUGNANO: He oan look the. part.
PHILIP: You see, a gentleman chould never be quite-
good.
AMTONIETTA COMES IN, AISO IN A NIGET
GOWN.
ANTONIETTA: Unole?
PHILIP: sit close to me dear. Were you frightened by the
storm?
ANTONIETTAS I wan asleep.
PHILIP: You know the pataens Venetians have sent thoir
fleot up the Po? They've penotrated the river Adda
as far as the walle of Pavide This means Milan could
fall in a weok if they press their victory. That
night be all risht for you but not for mo, not for
the Visconti blood, not for Milan.
AN TONIETTA: - I'm S till a Visoonti, uncles


PHILIP: What I vanted to say is, have you sonething to
send your husband? a little present? something
to remember you by?
ANTONIETTA: A presentt
PHILIP: I'n in contact with him, you see d
ANTONIETTA: Oht - I could.embroider a handkerchief.
PHILIP; EavO it dona. Now go hack to bod.. (DRAWING
HER BACK) Khen ho made you a fine son, what promises
did he make for it? Come closer. You've taikod
to each other, in bed. Couples do. h They dream
together. what do you both hope for your son?
Do you hope, being yourself a
that he
might---in the absence of any laod issue
mine-
inherit (TAPPING THE THRONE) this chair?
ANTONIETTA: Hy lard-+
PHILIP (WITH HIS SUDDEN EFFICTIVE FURY) Give mo ananamert
ANTONIETTA: Yes.
PHILIP: This 1s all I went to know a
SHE IS USHERED OUT.
LAMPUGNANO:
The dog wants to piss an the throne as welli
PHILIP: Oh.shut up with your Jurid imegest
ANT ATTEN DANT ENZERS PITI A PLATE CEF
LIVER.
RICCI: The liver sir.
PHILIP (SMELLING IT) Here, try it.
RICCI: It came straight from the kitohens sir.
PHILIP: With the enomy lessthan toh kilometres away o
one can't be too careful suroly?
AN ATTENDANT IS BROUGHT FORTARD TO
EAT THE LIVER. THEY WATCH HIH.
HE SHOTS NO CONTRARY SYMPTOMS AND
PHILIP TAKES AHE PLATE BACK. HE
IS JUST ABOUT TO BEGIN RATING VHEN


TE ATTENDANT SWAYS AND COLLAPSES.
HE ROLLS ON TE GROUND. GREAT ALARM.
PHILIP (JUMPING UP) You seog , You seod
RICCI AND LAMPUGNANO RUSH OUT.
THE VRITHING HAN DIES. PHILIP SUBSIDES
INTO HIS THRONE AGAIN, GAZING DOWN AT
THE DEAD MAN WITH RAPT CALM.
RICCI RETURNS.
RICCI: 1e've arrested the cooks, butcher, the whole dam
lot.
PHILIP:
Ssshi
RICCI (SEEING THE IRAD MAN) Oh.
PHILIP: Death comes like a friend, whon you.see it.
THEY DRAG OUT THE DEAD MAN AS BEST
TELY CAN a
CARMAGNOLA'S BATTIAN ENTERS THE PERSONAL
AREA AND TIDIES THE BED.
LAMPUGNANO ENTERS THE THRONE AREA.
LAMPUGNANO: We'vo arrested-w-
PHILIP: Yes I know.
LAMPUGNANO: le applied burning ccals to the cooke They
paid him a thousand ducats----
PHILIP: The Venetians?
LAMPUGNANO: Yes.
EHILIP: How crude and unpolitical these methods are.
I'n surprised at the greatest palitical minds in
the world stooping to them.
CARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE PERSOVAL AREA
AS A SOLDIER AGAIN AND DISMISSES THE
BATHAN.
HE YANEN AND SIIS ON THE BEDO BEGINS
TAKING. OFF HIS BOOTS.


PHILIP: Don't they realise, after all, that if I go he'll
take my plaoe?
LAMPUGNANO: Carmagnola?
PHILIP: And he'd make a far more torrible enemy than I am.
LAMPUGNANO: Could he manage a court, do you think?
PHILIP: why, are you thinking of buttering him up, just
in dase? Oh, he could, with some training. But
then I woulan't bo here to give it to him, would I?
After all, I gave him all the mind he has. I even
taught him poetry. Apropos of that, bring me some-
thing wer-like, sométhing in Latin. Petrarch's
Afrioa perheps.
LAMPUGNANO BOIS AND LEAVES.
PHILIP FALLS ASLEEP av THE THRONE AND
THE OTHER ATEENDANTS'LEAVE SOFTLY.
CARMAGNOLA'S ADJUTANT ENTERS THE PERSONAL
AREA.
ADJUTANT: There's à prisoner wants to convey sone thing
urgent to youa
CARMAGN OLA: of high rank?
ADJUTANT: captain of horse.
CARMAGNOLA: Noblo?
ADJUTANT: Apparently, yes.
CARMAGNOLA: Show him in.
ADJUTANT LEAVES AND CARMAGNOLA HURR-
IIDLY REBUTTONS HIS BOOTS.
PHILIP BEGINS SNORING.
THE INEMY PRISONER COMES IN.
CARMAGNOLA: Haven't I seen you before?
ENEMY PRIS SONER: I was under your o ommand onoe, sir.
Bost time of my life.
CARMAGNOLA: You ontered Genoa with me?
ENEMY PRIS ONER: That $s right.


CARMAGNOLA: I thought s0.
HE GETS UP AND PREPARES TWO GLASSES
OF WINE.
ENEMY PRISONER: I have a message fram the lady Viso anti.
CARMAGNOLA: You have, by Godt
EEMY PRISONER: She'e embroidering a handkerohief with
your name and hers entwined.
CARMAGNOLA: God bless yout Héré (GIVING HIM WINE).
THEY DRINK.
ENEMY PRISONER: May I convey a mossage back?
CARMAGNOLA: Say I'm waiting for the handkerohief with---
passionato expectation, especially as she will be
handing it to me herseif...
ENEMY PRISONER: Yes sir.
PHILIP'S SNORES BOOM OUT.
CARMAGNOLA: Listen to that. It's the same every night.
I wiehp he'd pitoh his tént a mile away but he happens
to be my second-in-e ommand. I've never snored in
my 1ife, thank God.
ENEMY PRISONER: a That terms were you thinking of, my lord,
for hor, eventual roturn?
CARMAGNOLA: i Full :
and reaso nable
exohango
prisonors,
compensation----I said reas onablé. (WHEN THE OTHIR
MAN IS SILENT) Ehy, what's wrong with that?
ENIMY PRISONER? onewould need a treaty.
CARMAGNOLA: My God, he's that serious, is he? :
EN EY PRISONER: I imagine, though I'm not quoting, that
the hetter the treaty the moré chance she has of
presenting you the ombroidered handkerohief in
person.
CARMAGNOLA: I won't be threatened, though.
ENEMY PRIS ONER: Everyane knows that.
CARMAGNOLA: In other words he wants to fight and treat
at the same timo?


INEMY PRISONER: A Bhow of fighting, perhaps.
CARMAGNOLA (AFTER A THOUGHTFUL PAUSE) All right.
EN: EMY PRISONER (RISING) rva better not stay too longo
CARMAGNOLA: Youre very tactful.
ENEMY PRISONER: On your behaif..
CARMAGNOLA: That?
THIE ENENY PRISONER SIMPLY BOWS, d
ENEMY PRISONER: May I have safe oonduct through your lines?
CARMAGNOLA: Provided I get permission to treat with you.
I shall let you know Vonioets ansver. If it's yes
you'll get your safe conduot in your tent.
ENEMY PRISONER:
Thank youo
HE SALUTES AND LEAVES.
CARMAGNOLA UNTIES HIS BOOTS AGAIN
AND THROWS HIMSELF BACK ON THE BED.
HIS DEAFENING SNORES JOIN THOSE OF
PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN.


THE DOGE WITH PAOLO CORNARO AND
COUNCI ILLORS IS. IN THE THRONE AREA, -
THILE IN THE PERSONAL AREA ANTONIETTA
IS BEING DRESSED IN A MAGNIFICENT
CEREMONIAL DRESS OF BROCADE BY MARIA,
MOTHER OF CARNAGNOLA. SERVING WOMEN
ARE ALSO IN ATTENDANCE.
A GREAT HEAD-DRESS OF JETELS AND
FLOWERS IS TRIED ON HER HEAD.
ANTONIETTA: I wish today was over:
THE HEAD-DRESS IS TRIED'AGANN.
DOGE: They oan't roally say we've done badly. Consider-
ing all thé thinge my predecessor said about me.
After
even money-mad merchants like him would
have had hadto recognise that re've got Philip of Milan
just where we wanted him. And it didn't cost us all
that mucha
CCUNCILLOR: The balangé of payments 1e down by four million
ducats-es
DOGE: 'Duoats', ducats'
LAUGHTER.
DOGE: We've got haif of Lombardy: savoy, switzerland and
Aragon have all turned against hime. All hets got
fort by way of a friend is tho pope. And who caros
about him?
COUNCILLOR: Youtre réceiving the lady Visconti.
DOGE: Ah yes. And what does hubby have to say these days,
now that peade io lying heavy on his hands?
COUNCILLOR: He wants to go to the baths of Abano.
DOGE: Not againt


CORNARO: Vetve got to be damned alever here.
DOGE: If we lose him vetre finishedt On the other hand
we can't give way to hin all the time. Did you put
my suggostion to him?
COUNCILLOR: That he tako a laxative instead? Yes I did
but he pointed out that Abano mid is meant far lumbago.
DOGE: M God, heve a man and a half. I heard someane say
the other day, *Venice and carmagnola make the strong-
est state in italys. We've got to keep him. Hete.
flirting with Philip I imagine.
CORNARO: He reoeives a messenger néarly every day.
DOGE: But what the hell do. they have to talk about? We're
at peacei The treaty ts beèn signed:
ANTONIETTA GOES OFF FOLLOWED BY HER
WOMEN AND MARIA IN A TTEN DANCE.
DOGE: + All right. Let him go to his'bloody baths. - But
watch him like a hawk, bay I8
BELIS SOUND OUT, AND DAYTIME FIREVORKS
ARE REFLECTED IN THE OPEN AREA AS ANT-
ONIETTA CROSSES THE OPEN AREA.
COUNCILLOR: The Countese of Castelnuovo ia on her way,
Mr Doge d
DOGE: By the way, aid Philip ever give up the keye to
the Bresciano castles?
CORNARO: of course he didn't.
DOGE: He won*t. He méans nar, when he's had a nioe rest.
He's the airtiest dealer in Italian politios, and
that'a saying aomothing.
ANTONIETTA ENTERS THE THRONE AREA WITH
HER TRAIN.
HER ATTENDNATS PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO
THE DGE AND LEAVE WITH THE COUNCILLORS
so THAT THE DOGE AND ANTONIETTA ARE
ALONE : THE BELIS CONTINUE IN THE
BACKGROUND.
DOGE: I needn't say how wonderful it is to have your
great name in our Goldon Booke


ANTONIETTA: A much greater honour for me e
DOGE: We hope you'll settle dom happily.
ANTONIETTA (AS IF BY ROTE) The palace on the Grand canal
iB one of the loveliest in venice.
A PAUSE, AFTER THE FIRST NERVOUS
FORMALITY. HE MOTIONS HER TO SIT
DOWN.
DOGE: Your husband's health, my dear---hets asking for
another eure.
ANTONIETTA: Oh, he only needs looking after. I can do
that now 6
DOGE: How do you think he's settling down? : I mean, the
scawair, a oity planted in the sea, the silende of
the sea at night-mall 80 different from the noisy,
land-looked Milan. And you, as a Visoonti, can
you feel Vénetian? You see, my dear, becoming
Venetian is a hundred timos more difficult than
being one, and being one isn't ensy, as I can tell
you, being myself spied on and suspocted of megalo-
mania if I say more than a couple of words in
council. Wetre a hard, heroic, unsparing race.
Yet we lovo pleasure.. Fe've got the nioest oity
in Europe---I think. It'e a difficult ocbination.
The sea---30 the foreigners toll mo---makes it a
world quite its owno A touch of magio, which can
make a man giady. Are you sure you can manege this
strange new allegianoe?
ANTONIETTA: We must try hard.
DOGE: You look : tired and nervous.
ANTONIETTA: It'e these lavish---Monderful celebrations. a
DOGE: Yes me do have rather a lot of theme (WITH A
SMILE) Bread and oirouses. I only want you to
promise me one thing, that if at any time you
should feel less than one hundred percent Venetian
you will a come to me at once, bofore it becomes a
matter of genoral disoussione
ANTONIETTA: I don't quite anderstand.
DOGE: That doesn't matter. Just remember what I said.
ANTONIETTA (CURTSEYING) My lord.


DOGE (ALSO RISING) And when we know each - other a bit
better (GIVING HER HIS ARM) you'll.be less nervous
of me perhapsa
ANTONIETTA: I wish this banquet was overs
DOGE: Between yai and me,so,do Ia
TILY LAUGH AND GO OUT TO THC SOUND
OF TRUMPETS. F IREW ORKS AGAIN AS
THEY LEAD A PROCESSION ACROSS THE
OPEN AREA,
- A.COUNCILLOR HURRIES FORVARD AND
DETACHES THE DOGE FROM THE GROUP.
ANTONIETTA STANDS IN UNCERTAINTY
UNTIL CORNARO TAKES HER ARM AND
THE PROCESSION MOVES FORWARD AGAIN.
THE DOGE AND A FEW COUNCILLORS
HURAY INTO THE' PERSONAL AREA HHILE
THE PROCESSION DISAPPEARS.
COUNCILLOR: Fhilip has forty-one ships under sail.
DOGE: The swinel
COUNCILLOR: Pisani's in trouble and needs relief.
DOGE: ve11 got Carmagnola out cf that hole---whore is
it, Casalsecoo or some damned place--8
COUNCILLOR: He won't stirf
DGE: What?
COUNCILLOR: Hosaid he's got no forage or something.
DOGE: Tell him the grass f11 be a yard high whon he
needs it2
COUNCILLOR: Te did. And the ho asked for more money.
We sent it. But still ho hasn 't stirred.
DOGE: And what's his new excuse? 1
C OUNCILLOR: That he's too weak to hazard a move.
DOGE: with sixteen thousand cavalry?t
ANOTHER COUNCILLOR DASHES IN.


SECOND COUNCILLOR: casalmaggioré has capitulated:
DOGE: Have Pisan1 arrestedt
COUNCILLOR (PRODUCING A DOCUMENT) will you sign this order
to Carmagnole---to move at onee?
DOGE: Bring the latest despatches to me at dinnera
COUNC ILLOR: Yes lr Doge.
THE DOGE SIGNS THE DOCUMENT AT THE
TABLE e
PHILIP WITH RICCI AND ANOTHER COUNCILLOR
ENTER THE THRONE AREA HURRIEDLY, WHILE
THERE IS ALSO A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY IN
THE PERSONAL AREA WITK THE DOGE LEAV-
ING AND HIS COUNCILLORS CONFERRING WITH
EACH OTHER IN WHIS PERS o
PHILIP: Carmagnola mustn t move 6 'If he does we'ro
finished. How many boats have we lost?
RICCI: over twenty by the latest accounts.
PHILIP: But in Godve namé why, why?
RICCI: Because we're not sailors and the Vonetians aret
They*ve got the knack.
PHILIP: if that man movas I'lleoturn my dogs on yout
THE COUNCILLORS LEAVE THE PERSONTAL
AREA THE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY TEC
DOGE REHAINS PROMINENTLY ON THE
TABLE.
PHILIP: Tell Piccinino to prapare an ambusoade. At
the same :time get à moasege to Cermagnola not to
fear an ambuscads.
RICCI: Howw?
PHILIP: Don't ask how, you yellow idiott Do itt
RICCI HURRIES OFT-
CARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE PERSONAL AREA
DRESSED FOR CAMP, IN A LEISURELY FAY.
LAMPUGNANO HURRIES INTO THE THRONE AREA.


LAMPUGNANO: Enemy troops are at Pavia, sir.
FHILIP: Paviat pavias Thirty-five kilometres awayi
See that I'm left alonet
LAMPUGNANO HURRIES OFF AGAIN.
CARMAGNOLA PREPARES HIMSELF A GLASS
OF CYPRUS WINE. HE GOES TO THE TABLE
AND-TAKES UP THE SIGVED DOCULIENT.
HE SEATS HIMSELF COFORTABLY AND
DR: INKS, WITH TLE DOCUMENT BEFORE HIM.
PHILIP BEGINS PRAYING TO ALL FOUR
CORNGRS, SHIFTING HIMSELF VITH QUÉCR
ABRUPT MOVEMENTS, HIS LIPS MOVING
FERVENTLY, HIS HEAD LOT TO THE GROUND a
CARMAGNOLA READS IN SILENCE.
THE INEMY PRISONER ENTERS THE PERSONAL
AREA SILENTLY AND SMPLY STANDS THERE.
CARMAGNOLA (WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES) Prepare to movel
THE ENEMY PRISOER SIMPLY STANDS THERE.
CARMAGNOLA (LOOKING UP) And what bringe you here?
PHILIP (LIFTING HIS FEAD FROH PRAYER) Tell him-ry thoughts
are wit th. him. all the time. Tat hete dostined for
greater thinge than conmanding even Venotian armies.
That he is destined for the dukedom of Milan. Re-
member that I have no hoir and that he is a Visconti.
Tell him that a soldier falle by the aword as he
lives by. it, but that a prince $s name remains for
éver e
CARMAGNOLA NODS AS IF THE ENMY
PRISONER HAD TOLD HIM ALL THIS.
CARMAGNOLA: And what othor blandishments are there?
ENEMY PRISONER: If I'm a judge of the duke's ainoerity,
these were about the sincereet words ho ever spoke.
PHILIP: Tell him I miss our oonversations, our hunting,
our fasoinating $ trategio conferonces---more than
I miss my lato wifes
CARMAGNOLA:
Whom he murdored.


PHILIP: Tell him all prindes are represented as bad,
because thoy dan never champion. all interests at
onde. Teli. him-eema
HE PAUSES.
CARMAGNOLA: Yes?
PHILIP:
w-that ne may begin ordering my court in the
forn he will wish to inherits
CARMAGNOLA:
That?
PHILIP: Let him state his disapproval of any of my
courtiers and he shall be removed from my prosence
at once.
ENEMY PRISONER: And I am instruoted to say that your
friend Picoinino will be treating the forthcoming
battle---should you decide to move-w-
CARMAGH OLA:
I've already decided?
ENEMY PRISONER: wa-as little more than a manoeuvre. You
need fear no ambusoades.
HE SALUTES AND LEAVES.
PHILIP: I could make him the greatest Visconti there ever
was. Imagine thati A peaco with Venicet Honoured
as a Venetien nobleman and the soveraign of Milant
All he has to do is to learn the ways of a gentleman.
PHILIP SITS AN THE THRONE AND CLAPS
HIS HANDS.
LAMPUGNANO APPLARS.
hiece
PHILIP: You're in touch with my nephed Antonietta?
LAMPUGNANO: Yes. But she's olosely watohed.
PHILIP: Tell hér I hopos--I hope the young Prince her
son is in good health. Thatll cause a Tlutter.
Tell her-ano, just leave it at that.
LAMPUGNANO: Yessir.
PHILIP: I think we've done welli
LAMPUGNANO: Losing a whole fleet?
PHILIP: In faot, very well indeod. And keep your mouth


shut when I'm thinking al oudo
LAMPUGNANO BOTTS AND LEAVES.
CARMACN OLA TEARS UP THE DOGE'S ORDER.
HIS ADJUTANT APPLARS.
ADJUTANT: The daptains avait your instructions.
CARMAGN OLA: Thoy aré to advance at a leisurely pace and
BAFTER A PAUSE) under-no oiroumstances provoke an
action.
THE ADJUTANT SALUTES AND LEAVES.
CARMAGNOLA CROSSES HIMSELF AND ALSO
LEAVES.
ANTONIETTA CROSSES THE OPEN AREA FROM
RIGHT TO LEFT MOUNTED aN ZOCCOLI OR
HIGH CLOGS, HER HANDS CN THE HEADS @
TWO SERVING WOMEN WHO ACT AS HER BAL-
ANCES ON BITHER SIDE, MULBLING THEIR
BEADS. MARIA GOES BEHIND WATCHING
HER PROGRESS. THE CLOGS ARE ABOUT
FIFTEEN INCHES HIGH AND GLITTER VITH
JEWELS ROUND THE HEEL. THE UNSTEADY
LITTLE PARTI MANOEUVRES ITSELF ROUND
TO THE PERSONAL AREA, WHERE ANTONIETTA
LOSES HER BALANCE AND FALLS INTO
MARIA'S ARMS.
ANTONIETTA: I'l1 never be a Venetian at this ratel
MARIA: Be oareful what you sayi (WITH A QUICK GLANCE AT
THE SERVING WOMIN).
VHEN ANTONIETTA HAS BEEN LOFERED FROM
HER CLOGS MARIA DISMISSES THE SERVING
ROMEN. ANTONIETTA RESTS. a THE BED.
AN? TONIETTA: How nioë it mist juet to walk through this
MARIA (TAKING OUT A LETTER)
This came for you.
ANTONIETTA: Where aid you get it?
MARIA: In thedountry. A couple of minutes bèfore we
left. A man.: I know how to take seoret letters.
ANOTNIETTA (OPENING THE LITTER) It isn't signedt


MARIA: Not so'loudt
PHILIP GAZES DOWN AT ANTONIETTA WHILE
SHE READS THE LETTER.
PHILIP (AS IF READING THE LETTER OUT) Though you're a
Venetian noblewomen now it can't be wrong of mo to
congrat atulate you on the young prinoe is first btrth-
day. And though your husband is at war . with us he
is the father of our rightful heir.
ANTONIETTA: Burn iti Then go and call my womon!
MARIA BURNS THE LETTER IN THE HEARTH
WHILE ANTONIETTA SITS THINKING, STILL
WATCHED BY PHILIP.
THEN MARIA GOES OUT TO CALL THE WOMEN.
PHILIP: I always meant you to be. duchess of Milan. In
giving you Carmagnola I was half ashamed: it was a
dosparate act of politics. We have to bribe those -
men, who change their loyalties from one month to thé
naxt. I little realised how things would turn out.
And when later you gave birth to a son I saw that
Carmegnola must be won from Venice. (DREAMILY)
Do you remember the lawn behind our palace? the stud-
farm, the kennels, the mist in the plain at full
moon? Do you remember those lines of Petrarchtd--me
Di pensier in ponsier, di monte in-monte, mi guida
ANTONIETTA (TO HERSELF) From thought to thoughts from hill
to.hill, Love is my guide.e.
THE WOMEN AND MARIA COME WITI
ANTONIETTA 'S BROCADE DRESS AND HEAD-
DRESS. THEY BEGIN DRESSING HER AGAIN.
SHE SICHS.
ANTONIETTA: So many parties. Audiences.
MARIA: You asked for this one. - so fix a smile an your
faco! d
RICCI BURSTS IN aN PHILIP.
RICCI: Carmagnola fell into our ambuscades He's lost
upwards of two hundred horset Do you hear? -
a PHILIP TURIS BLOWLY.


PHILIP:
What else do you think I intendod?
RICCI: But he himself escaped.
PHILIP: The point is this, did he throw himself into
the attack?
RICCI: On the contrary. He ambled into it. His
instrudtions were not to provoke an action.
PHILIP: I 1ike Carmagnolat
RICCI: One begins to wonder if hets commanding the
Venetian forces or curs, he loses his battles
so disarmingly.
PHILIP: Come down to the map-room and we'1l fix more
defeats for him.
PHILIP AND RICCI LEAVE JUST AS
ANTONIETTA, DRESSED NOW IN. MAGNIFICENT
BROCADE, HER HEAD-DRESS STÉADY,
STRUTS OUT OF THE PERSONAL AREÀ WITH
MARIA AND THE SERVING WOMIN *
: ANTONIETTA AND HER TRAIN CROSS THE
OPEN AREA FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AS THE DOGE
ANDA C CUNC ILLOR ENTER THE THRONE AREA.
ANTONIETTA INTERS THE THRONE AREA WITH-
OUT HER ATTIN DANTS, AND THE DGE HANDS
HER IN A KINDLY WAY TO A SEAT AT HIS
SIDE.
DOGE: Yo8 my dear?
ANTONIETTA: Nay I join my hushand? I miss him so mucht
DOGE: But of course you may, - I wonder you took the
trouble to ask me. (PATTING HER HAND) I don't
think you're used to our freedom. 1 You know, we
givo each other infinite liberty. And if we make
mistakes în that wide area, well, that's our fault...
ANTONIETTA: Is he well?
DOGE: Your husband has just had one of the most ignom-
inious defeats of his career.
ANTONIETTA: That?
DOGE: He fell into an ambush, Oh hets all right. A


defeat now and then eolours a commander's
career. But when ho invades Hilen-eme
ANTONIETTA: Milan?
DOGE: Does it sound alarming to a Visconti? Philip is
our eneny after all. Yours too.
ANTONINTTA: Tost Yos he ist f
A COUNCILLOR ENTERS.
COUNCILLOR: Council is about to sit.
DOGE:
When will you leave?
ANTNIETTA: Tonight.
DOGE: Good luck my dear.
ANTONIETTA:
Thank yous
THE COUNCILLOR BORS HER OUT.
DOGE: She almost smacked me round the face when I said
'invade Milan't Have you traced the letters she gets?
COUNCILLOR: To Milan, yes.
DOGE: He draws in his net, you see.
COUNCILLOR: Ho's got a mind 1ike a snake. In politics,
that warks.
DOGE: Do you think he means to get me as well?
COUNCILLOR: I think perhaps we ought to give Carmagnola
another warning about him. He's receiving that
slimy Savoyard Henri de Colombier every day still.
DOGE: On the catrary. Let our proveditors know that
they mustn't meddle with him or question his
finances. You know how sensitive ho 1s.
CCUNCILLOR: He's just asked for .another thousand ducate
by the way. To compensate hio cavalrymen for the
loss of their horses, beliéve it or not.
DOCE (LAUGHING) So ve pay .for his defeats as welli
CARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE PERSONAL AREA


IN UNIFORM, TIRED AND SLON. HE
THROWS HIMSELF ON HIS BED.
DOGE (AS HÉ PREPARES TO LEAVE THE THRONE AREA) We'11 give
it to him of course. But add a note that as this
kind of payment ien't usual ho should keep quiet
about it and pay it' out as 1f it' came from his om
pooket.
COUNC ILLOR: Sometimes I think he's got both you and Philip
just th ore he wants you.
DCGE (STOPPING) He ion't taking money from
is he?
Fhilip,
COUNCILLOR (AS THEY. LEAVE) We can't be ahsolutely sure
about that. - But it Beems-eevery muoh on the cards.
TIE THRONE AREA IS EMPTY.
CARMAGNOLA BEGINS, SV ORING.
Ti INEMY PRISONER IS SUDDENLY STAND-
ING THERE.
EN EMY PRISONER: My lord.
CARMAGNOLA (VAKING AS IF BY TFE FORCE or THE OTHER MAN'S
PRESENCE) Come and sit dorm. Here.
ENEMY PRISONER SITS DONN ON THE END
OF THE BED. IN THIS SCENE THEY TALK
IV URGENTLY LOW TONES, AS IF IN COM
PLICITY.
ENEMY PRISOVER: Stifling weather. Not ideal for war -
CARMAGNOLA: Oh it's good enough for mea As you '11 find
in a week from nowe I11 teach you how to make
war in Julyt
ENEMY PRISOVER: I've tried to explain-w-
CARMAGNOLA:
That was a damed airty trickt
ENEMY FRISONER: Piocinino mistook his ordors!
CRABGANOLA:
Piccinino never mistakes anything I trained
him, so I know.
ENEMY PRISONER: Hechas no axcuse to offer--
CARMAGNOLA:
Who?


ENEMY PRISONER: Our oommon friend. His orders simply
didn't reach Picoinino in time.
CARMAGNOLA: But you just now said Piocinino mistook his
ordersg
ENEMY PRISONER: My dear sir, I'm officially a prisoner of
war, Ioan t knon everything that's going on in the
Milanese oart.
CARMAGNOLA: I've half a mind to bond you backi Does he
want Venice as an ally or not? does he want the
united state ho's dreaming about, with access to
the Adriatic on one aide and the Zedoterranean an
the other---my God, do yau Bee what a Wonderful
chanoe that, is,-bringVonice and Milan together?
Tell him I'm preparing that, I'm softening their
minde for nothing short of thatt Doesn t he
realise that we shall all be flattened by powors
north of the Alps, by Spain or France or. the
Empire, 1f not this contury thon the next, if we
don't make common cause?
ENEMY PRISOER:. Hé said once that there nad never been
a military coumander dapable of. playing palitiosamg-
until yous
CARMAGNOLA: Well then, let me get Cn. with the jobt
INEMY PRISONER: i vay iconvoy that.as. quickly as possible,
before you attack, as 1 you. say you wili?
CARMAGN TOLA: I'll give you twelve hoursi
ENEMY PRIS) NER SALUTES ABRUPTLY AND
LEAVES,
THEN do AS CARMAGNOLA SETTLES BACK AGAIN,
THE ÉNEMY PRISONER RETURNS HURRIEDLY.
ENEMY PRISONER: I forgot to say---your aecount in Milan
has been oredited--
CARMAGNOLA: Get outi
ENEMY PRISONER LEAVES AGAIN.
CARMAGNOLA HAS JUST SETTLED TO SLEEP
WHEN HIS ADJUTANT ENTIRS.
ADJUTANT: The lady Visconti siri8


CARMAGNOLA (BOUNDING UP FROM THE BED) What?
ANTONIETTA APPEARS AND HIS ADJUTANT
WITHIRANS.
ANTONIETTA (AS THEY EMBRACE) I Aré there spies here too?
CARMAGNOLA: Spies?
ANTONIETTA: I'm followed everywhere:
CARMAGNOLA: You're so tired---tirod:
ANTONIETTA: mwwof trying to be Venetiant
CARMAGNOLA:
One day we shall be both Venetian and Milanese,
and there won't be any more treachory..
ANTONIETTA: Do they trust yai?
CARMAGNOLA: Thoy set, spies on me night and day. They call
thed provis ion mens But then they set spies on the
doge. And he sets spies on them. It's a demooracy,
Antonietta---a spying atate.
ANTONIETTA: A police state's simpler.
CARMACNOLA: Yos, lile was simplor under Philip, If you
knew his mind, as I did, you could influonoe it.
ANTONIETTA: Is he bribing you?
CARMAGNOLA: He puts money into my account in Milan. I
- can't touch the money, so 1s that bribory?
ANTONIETTA: And do they know in Venice?
CARMAGNOLA: They know everything, except what's in my
heart.
ANTONIETTA: And what's that?
CARMAGNOLA: Rosolving this war into peace. Making a
settlement of Lombardy, until Venice and Milan are
virtually one state. And guiding ny son to the
joint-throne of that state, to bring in a state of
divilisation...
ANTONIETTA: Yest
CARMAGNOLA: At the same time I havo to fight mock battles.


Neither side must seen not to fight, yet neither
side must win. And then Piccinino plays tho dirty
on mewma-he goes and wine a battlei But then you
can't always geem to be fighting without Bometimes
actually fighting: I can understand his position.
ANTONIETT: And do they both vant peace?
CARMAGNOLA: Does Vénice want her national dobt to go up
another four million dueats? does Philip vant to go
on being defeated?
ANTONIETTA; Vonice doesn't mind the expense if you beat
Philip. And Philip doesn't mind the defeats because
he knows he'll win in the end.
CARMAGNOLA: You say that?
ANTONIETTA: Isn't it true? He might not nin battles but
he's such a politiciant He's more than a match for
these seamen.
CARMAGNOLA: But that's the point of my working to bring
them togetheri
ANTONIETTA: But they don't vant to com togethert They
want the wari
CARMAGNOLA; Is that why you came?
ANTON IE TTA: I wanted to say thic---(URGENTLY, LOOKING ROUND
FIRST) if Philip wili sign a documont---about our Bon-
a deed of inheritance---mouldn't you be safer. to
withdraw, from both of. them-w-for a time?
CARMAGNOLA: Be à traitor to both?
ANTONIETTA: But youtre a mercenary 'soldiert Whon tho
deed of settlement's signed youtll be a prinoe,
or the father of a prince, with loyalty to
own statel As it is, we 're floating, on Oypet,
At least we won't be on' hire any morei
CARMAGNOLA: Venice agrecd to truét me. Theyeve given me
special poriers to treat with Philipe That means
an enormous political roles, I've got to go through
with 1t. I must prove nyself more than a hard-
riding, herd-svearing soldieri
ANTONIETTA: But you haven't the training!
CARMAGNOLA: I've got the conviction, whioh they-a-e


GREAT CONFUSION OUTSIDE.
CARMAGNOLA:
Vhat the hell?
HE COLLIDES WITH THE ADJUTANT ON HIS
VAY IN.
ADJUTANT: He've been surprisedt
CARMAGNOLA (DASHING CUT) - Fut a guara on my wifet
THE ADJUTANT BARS THE VAY AS SHE TRIES
TO GO AFTER CARMAGNOLA.
ADJUTANT: Madam, pleaset
SOUNDS OF BATTLE, HORSES. THE
ADJUTANT CALIS IN A SOLDIER WHO STANDS
BACK TO THE INTRANCE GUARDING ANTON-
IETTA, THE ADJUTANT THEN RUSHES OFF.
PHILIP APPLARS SUDDENLY IN THE THRONE
ARLA AS IT DRAVN BY THE SCUNDS OF WAR.
HE STARES ACROSS THE OPIN AREA.
FLASHES or BATILE ACROSS THE OPEN AREA.
BATTLE TRUMPEIS.
PHILIP (AS IF WATCHING THE BATTLE) Because of the summer
heat a blinding dust is being kicked ups They
oan't tell friend from en emy. Carmagnola has takon
to horse, he flies after the enemy but has over-
looked the fact that he doeen't know where the
en emy 1s, Hy own brilliant conmander, too,
seems to have
dropped clanger, being altogether
lost. Carmagnola is downt (WITE GREAT GLEE)
Downt
ANTONIETTA: Nol
not
PHILIP: Ho isn't dead. They take such care/to kill
each other, these damned. condottieri. And we pay
half our. exchoquers to thom. When the dust dios
down my brilliant cormander will send Carmagnola
his c ompliments, tagether with a barrel of wine,
and they'll probably cins dirty barraok songs
together until. four o'clook in the. morning.
(TO ANTONIETTA) That 's the man I married you too
Tnatts the man wo must turn into a gentleman and,
perhaps, the duke of Hilan, should I die young,
Whioh they prediot...
'HE SITS HIMSELF QUIETLY CN. HIS THRONE


AS IF TO SIUDY THE EFFICT OF HIS OWN
WORDS.
THE BATTLEF IELD QUIETENS AND CARMAGNOLA
RETURNS COVERED WITH DUST, PANTING HARD a
FOLLOVED BY HIS AIJUTANT IN AN EQUAL
STATE.
CARMAGNOLA (TO HIS ADJUTANT) That was a silly damned
tricki (TO ANOTNIETTA) Ho nearly puts: his pike
through met
ANTONIETTA: Tho?
CARMAGNOLA: This chapt Sends me for six and goes riding
aftor one of his own batmen, whom he nearly cuts in
twos
ADJUTANT: well, visibility mas down to nil.
CARMAGNOLA: I've always said, headquerters troops should
never bo let loose on a field of battle.
ADJUTANT: And 1t was an emergency after all.
CARMAGNOLA: It certainly was for méo If I hadn 't called
on Piocinino for help you might have killed mes
ADJUTANT (LAUGHING) I'd stick to you past the gates of
hellt,
CARMAGNOLA (PUTTING HIS ARM ROUND HIS SHOULDER) I wonder, o
am I really brave? I'm a marvellous actor, you
know.
ADJUTANT: Ien tt it the same?
CARMAGNOLA: And tonight I'm going to stage a brilliant
viotory. I'll ohow this eunuch duke to play me
tricksi Come to the moss, darling. (TAKING
ANTONIETTA'S HAND) call my officers.
ADJUTANT: Yes sir.
THEY ALL LEAVE.
PHILIP CLAPS HIS HAND CNCE AND
LAMFUGNANO APPEARS AT ONCE.
PHILIP: You mist have your ear glued to that door. I
only clapped once.
LAMFUGNANO: Service is my 1if0s


PHILIP: Vrite directly to Carmagnola, Tell him I
set Piccinino on his camp tonight so as to oover
the faet that we've reached full agreement. I
expeot Carmagnola to put in a stiff attack by way
of retaliation but I shall take this as I hope he
took my surpriao attack, as a blind. on the other
hand I must askifor * an imnediate return-of. prisoners,
if our agrecnent is to go through, assuming he gets
a victory, I'm préparing 'the deed of settlement
nowe
LAMPUGNANO: Deed of settlement?
PHILIP: Just ty foep your mouth shuts othervise you might
find service your feath, as toll as your lifet
I tolorate a man 11ke you just 60 far and-m
LAMPUGNANO LCAPS OUT OF TE THRONE
AREA.
PHILIP: Come backi
LAMFUGNANO RETURNS AS QUICKLY.
FAULIP: I want to hunt.
LAMPUGNANO HELPS HIM OUT OF THE
THRONE. THEY LEAVE.
TIE DCGE CROSSES THE OPEN AREA FROM
THE LEFT AND CORNARO MERTS ERM FROM
THE OTHER SIDE.
DOGE: Ah, there you arè. This is off the rocorda
(COMING DOWNSTAGE) Wetve just decidéd in council-
send a couple of mensaawe thought of young Mocenigo
and Fantino Hichieli---to Carmagnola as my personal
representatives. Thoy must enter his headquarters
in some ponp, as if this was my om visit. Hots
got to attack. No more of. those biasted skirmishos.
He's eathing away our résources, we're spending
more a day than we do in a month of paace. He
must cross the rivér Adda now, before Philip reforme
his navy. And then he'll damed vell take Milant
CORNARO: Carnagnola ts just been surprised in his own
canpo Nothing muoh, but he was almost liquidatedt
DOGE: Good Gods
CORNARO: We should have deait# wi th him ages ago,


DOGE: But where*s another commander?
CORNARO: Oh they're all the semet
DOGE: But they all play double toot Wo must push
him into wari
CORNARO:
I'll find Mocenigo and Hichieli right away 6
HE LEAVRS, RIGHT.
THE DOGE FOLLOWS AFTER HIM SLOWLY
AND RESIGNEDLY.
SOUNDS OF BATTLE, IN THE DISTANCE.
FLASHES ACROSS THE OPEN AREA.
CARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE PERSONAL AREA
FOLLOTED BY THE ENEMY PRISONER.
CARMAGNOLA: Do you hear it? That's the sound when I
mean busineset
ENEMY PRISONER: And tho prisonérs sir?
CARMAGNOLA; You shall have them baok at onoe.
ENEMY PRISONER: Unoonditionally?
CARMAGNOLA: Uneonditionally.
MEMY PRISONER:
Despite the fact that wo have Venetian
prisoners in our hands?
CARMAGNOLA;
Despite that fact.
ENEMY PRISONER: May I convey that tow-?
CARMAGNOLA: You may. I just want to tickle Picoinino's
arse tonight, that's all. Nothing serious. After
all,. ne military mon must have sane fun.
THE ADJUTANT ENTERS.
ADJUTANT: May me have instructions about the prisoners sir?
CARMA GN OLA: How many have come in so.far?
ADJUTANT: Upwarde of three hundred.
CARMAGNOLA: see that they get a drink and send them back.
ADJUTANT: In exchange.


CARMAGNOLA: No. Just send them back. Whatts the
matter? Are you stuek to the ground?
THE ADJUTANT SALUTES AND LEAVES.
CARMAGNOLA: And now leave me alone, to liston to that
music.
THE ENEMY PRISONER BOTS AND- LEAVES.
THE RUMBLE OF BATTLE CONTINUES.
CARMAGNOLA LIES ON THE BED AND CLOEES
HIS EXES a
TWO HOODED FIGURES ENTER AND.STAND BY
THE ENTRANCE -
CARMAGNOLA HAPPENS TO OPEN HIS EYES,
SEES THEM AND JUMPS UPo ONE OF THÉ
FIGURES SMARTLY OFFERS HIM A LETTER.
HOODED FIGURE: : : From the dogeo
CARMAGNOLA (WITHOUT TAKING THE LETTER) Let mé Be0. your
faoost
THEY DRAN THEIR HOODS ASIDE FOR A
HOMENT.
CARMAGNOLA: Michielit Modenigot What's going on?
(TAKING THE LETTER) You gave me quite a fright.
It wasn't that I thought you humen---I can deal
with anything human-e-but tho other world... Well
sit down for God's saket Vhat, are you going to
keep up tho farce?
HOODED FIGURE: : We have instructions to watoh you open the
letter.
CARMAGNOLA (OPANING IT) You Venetians love mystery, don't
you? Woll now I've done it let's have a drink.
HOODED FIGURE: wo must leave at onde.
CARMAGNOLA: By the way, how did you penetrate my camp?
HOODED FIGURE: fie showed the dogets seal. There ien't
a Vonotian alive who wouldn't give his life far thatt
CARMAGNOLA (STRIDING AFTER THEM) Is that another sneer?
I've had enough--eel
BUT THEY HAVE GONE.


HE READS THE LETTIR.
CARMAGNOLA (SCREAMING) Adjutant! Adjutanti
AFTER SOME CONFUSION OUTSIDE THE
ADJUTANT APPEARS.
ADJUTANT: Yes air?
CARMAGNOLA:
Take this létter domn?
ADJU TANT: Yes sir.
CARMAGNOLA: vell how are you going to do it without
pen or paper?
THE ADTUTANT HURRIES OUT TO FIND
THESE AND CARMAGNOLA STRIDES UP AND -
DORN MIGHTILY, BROODING av THE LETTER.
AND THE ADJUTANT RETUENS EQUIPPED.
CARMAGNOLA: To the doge',
ADJUTANT: To the doge.
CARMAGNOLA: Don't gapet All headquarters troops gapet
Youll get a bullet in your mouth one day if you
loave it open wide enought +
ADJUTANT:
*To the doge'.
CARMAGNOLA;
'I am writing you personally to tell you that
I have had just about enough of your countrymen's
sneers and jibes about my powers as a commander.
You know as well as I do that I am treating as well
as fighting, and if you want treatios as well as
viotories you will have to wait for them. Not
content with two provision experts whose job is to
breathe down my neck you send orooaple'noblemen
dressed up like scarecrows who frighten me out of
my wits, being a devout man with a cortain number
of judioial but none the lose regretted murders an
my shoulders. I will not tolerate this at tmosphero
of mistrust and espionage in my ovn headquarters!
I will not tolorate civilians fresh from the counting
house caming here and teaching me war! Today I
deoidod to snatoh a victory and I aid it. I pulled
Piocinino's tail because he triod to pull mine.
And let me add-a-by way of a serious warning---that
if you oannot appreciate my servioes there are othor
more aiscerning employers in Italy who can.' (HE
PAUSES) *There are even employers who would give


their thrones (AT A HEIGHT OF RAGING INDIGNATION)
for my servioest who would call my child a princet'
ANTONIETTA APPEARS.
ANTONIETTA: Francescos So moh shoutings
CARMAGNOLA: My God, for two pins I'd go out and destroy
Milan now, just to.show themt : (TO THE ADJUTANT)
Youd better out that last bit out. And gét it
off tonightt Get it to Venice before those two
ghouls arrivet
ADJUTANT:
Thich two ghouls?
CARMAGNOLA: Get outi
THE ADJUTANT GOES OFF.
CARMAGNOLA: I took four hundred and seventy-two prisoners.
in less than an hourts. battle this afternoon. And
these damned seamen-we &
ANTONIETTA: That's enough.
SHE COAXES HIM TO A QUIET MOOD.
ANTONIETTA: What did they say thon?
CARMAGNOLA: To attack at onoeo To beseige Milan. The
1deat
THEY SIT TOGETHER, MUSING IN SILINCE.
CARMAGNOLA: Ah, I feel good all of a suddent You know,
to be made such a fuss over---tvo of Venice's great-
est noblemen to travel all that way in fanoy dress,
just for me-a-what power I must havel >
ANTONIETTA: Darling.
CARMAGNOLA: All right, I11 win them a battlet I've
worked it outt I'll take Hantoohinro---aftor a
month's seige at most---I'll push on to Cremonamei
I think I'll have old Picoinino in a bog this
time, yes a bog---Adjutants adjutanti
THE ADJUTANT APPEARS AGAIN.
CARMAGNOLA: call my officorst
THC ADUTANT FOLLOUS HIM OUT PHEWING
AND SHAKING HIS HEAD. AND ANTONIETTA


LOWERS HER HEAD TO THE BED.
THE DAKN BEGINS TO COME UP IN THE
OPEN AREA.
PHILIP DUKE OF MILAN CROSSES THE OPEN
AREA FROM RIGHT TO LEFT IN A HUNTING
PARTY.
LAMPUGNANO HURRIES AFTER HIM.
LAMPUGNANO: He's seven miles from Montechiaro.
ANTONIETTA RAISES HER HEAD, LISTESING
PHILIP: What?
LAMPUGHANO: Hets back to his old games * our men got
davided. Thoy got in a bog!
PHILIP: I'1l give him bog?
THE CAMPANILEOF VEVICE BEGINS PEALING
AS FOR A CELEBRATION. THERE IS A
STIR IN THE THRONE AREA AS THE DOGE
AND HIS COUNCILLORS INTER.
DOGE'S COUNCILLOR: He's taken the Milanose in the reart
LAMPUGNANO: Shall we cancal the hunt?
PHILIP: No, we 11 canoel the deed of settlement: Tell
him that.
LAMPUGNANO: Yès sir.
THE HUNTING PARTY GOES ON.
DOGE'S COUNC ILLOR: Eight thousand horsemen surrendered to
hime
DOGE: Eight thousand!
COUNCILLOR: He's got all the enemy baggage. An immense
aa toht
DOGE: - You se0 what he oan dot
MARIA WITH SERVING WOMEN HURRIES IN
THE PERSONAL AREA TO DRESS ANTONIETTA
IN BROCADE, HEAD-DRESS AND CLOGS AS
BEFORE. THGY RAISE HER FROM THE BED.


COUNCILLOR: The Milaneso horses got caught up in briars
all the mon were stung, it must have boon a tre ati
You Bee, your letter worked a miraclet
DOGE: I think I'll visit his house in person. Fhat do
you say to that for an honour?
TRUMPETS AND MUSIC. THE BELLS OF ALL
VENIC E SCUND OUT.
DOGE: We'll maka that man a venetian if it kills ust
GARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE OPEN AREA FROM
THE LETT IN CERIMONIAL DRESS WITH
ATTENDANTS. THEY PAUSE TO WAIT FOR
ANTONIETTAS
SHE WOBBLES OUT OF THE PERSCNAL AREA
WITH HER HANDS ON THE HEADS OF TWO
SERVING WOMEN AND. MARIA BEHIND HER.
THE TNO PARTIES JOIN IN THE OPEN AREA
AND PROCEED RIGHT TOWARDS THE THRONE
AREA.
THERE ARE S CUNDS OF WILD CELEBRATION.
THE PROCESSION DISAPPEARS BEHIND THE
TIRONE AREA.
CARMAGNOLA APPEARS IN THE THRONE AREA
ALONE AND THE DOGE KISSES HIM ON BOTH
CHEEKS à
CARMAGNOLA: I'vo got a treaty in my pooket. He'll agree
to anything.
DOGE (MAKING HIM SITAT HIS SIDE) We went the
Tucoany and Bologna free entirely from his Romctor
feronce.
CARMAGNOLA; That'll be all right.
DOGE: But you mst now press the attack.
CARKACH OLA: To Milan?
DOGE: Wasn't that what you had in mind?
CARMAGNOLA: But hon? Reduce Milan to dhaos? and then
finance the ohaos? -He's the. only man who commands
the respeot of the Milanose nobility. They'd never
follow the Venetian flags
DOGE: It must be finished now.


CARMAGNOLA: But look at the expense alonet
DOGE (PRESENTING HIM WITH A DOCUMENT) These are the deeds
of a wonderful house in the Bresciano. For youi
The fiof of Castenedolo is yourst
COUNCILLOR (ENTERING AND BOWING TO CARMAGNOLA) All of Venice
ie wearing Carmagnola caps, your Magnificonce!
THIS IS A SIGNAL FOR THE DOGE AND
CARMAGNOLA TO RISE AND HEAD THE PRO-
CESSION. THEY LEAVE THE THRONE AREA
WHILE ANTONIETTA AND HER PARTY APPEAR
AGAIN IN THE OPEN AREA AND WAIT FOR
THEM. WHEN THE DOGE'S PARTY JOIN
THEM THEY ALL CROSS THE OPEN AREA.
TO THE SOUNDS OF CELEBRATION.
PHILIP AND HIS HUNTING PARTY ENTER
THE PERSONAL ARRA. THE SOUNDS OF
VANITIAN CELEBRATION GRADUALLY DIE AHAY
AS THE PROCESSION WINDS OUT OF SIGHT.
LAMPUGNANO HURRIES IN TO.THE PERSONAL
ARRA,
LAMPUGNANO: te'vo juet-had another mossage. He won't oome
near Hilan so long as the deed of settlement is signed.
PHILIP: Tell him in that case I'll sign it. But he
mustn't put his nose within ten miles of this oity.
LAMPUGNANO: And hos asking them for leave to visit the
baths of Abano again.
PHILIP: Good Godg Thoy must think he's got cast-iron
bowels, to stand all that treatmenti
LAMPUGNANO: Whatts more, they're letting him go. And the
doge paid a personal visit to his house on the Grand
Canal, which in the greatest honour a Vonotian
nobleman can get.
PHILIP: I've always made it a rule, never kiss a military
commandor's arse. They maké you pay for it in the
end.
LAMPUGNANO: Shall we put extra guarde on the aity walls
tonight?
PHILIP: of ocurso not: Now leave mé alone. (AS THEY
LEAVE) By the way, offor him five thousand duoats
and Genoa if he'll return to my serviae. He won't,


but he may as well feel I want him too
THDY LEAVE. THE NIGHT DRAWS ON.
PHILIP BEGINS PRAYING TO THE FOUR
CORNERS.
PHILIP (BURSTING OUT FERVENTLY) Oh God let me not diet
(AS AN AFERTOUGHT) Even if I'm the only onet
HE MOVES WEARILY TO HIS BED. THE
PALACE OWLS ARE HEARD AGAIN. SUDDENLY
HE CLAPS HIS HANDS AND WATCHES THE
ENTRANCE AS IF TO TIME THE ATENDANT.
THE ATTENDANT DASHES IN.
PHILIP: Not bad. All right, you dan.60.
THE ATTENDANT LEAVES AGAIN. HILIP
CROSSES HIMSELF AND LIES DOWN.
CARMAGNOLA AND ANTONIETTA PASS ACROSS
THE OPEN AREA FRO RIGHT TO LEFT,
STROLL: ING, STILL IN THEIR CEREMONIAL
DRESS, FRAGMENTS OF STREAMERS HANGING
i : FROM - THEIR SHOULDERS.
CARMAGNOLA: (STOPPING) Do you hear the owls?
ANTONIETTA: Yes.
CARMAGNOLA: They romind yai of--? (SHE NOIS) I'm
tired of war. (LOOKING UP AT THE SKY) How I need
civilisation!
ANTONIETTA: Did they offer you more monoy, bosides the
fief?
CARMAGNOLA: They'd give me those stars if they could.
Yes, a thousand ducats a month in peace and
and in war all ransons and prize monoy. And aatho
entire command of the Venetian armies in Lombardy,
ANTONIETTA: And you still aren't pleased?
CARBAGNOLA: The world isn't just for us, my dear. Wo
have to realise certain ideas.
ANTONIETTA: And what vill you do?
CARLAGNOLA: At this moment, taka you h ome and behavo 1ike


a good husband.
HE BEGINS SINGING QUIETLY, AND THEY
WANDER OFF ARM IN ARM.
PHILIP SNORES.
LIGHT BEGINS TO COME UP IN THE OPEN
AREA. THE CRYING OF THE OWLS CEASES.
PHILIP STARTS AWAKE, CLAPS HIS HANDS
QUICKLY, JUMPING OUT OF BED AS BEST
HE CAN. RICCI COMES IN.
PHILIP (PUILING CN A DRESSING GOWN) I'm going to get
marriedi
RICCI: What?
PHILIP: Call a counoil quick. Get the nobles heated up
about it. It'l1 take their minds off our dofeat.
LAMPUGNANO DASHES IN.
LAMPUGNANO: Florence attaokod Luccaf
PHILIP: what? is totre in luok, lucks Itve been waiting
for an act of uhprinoipied aggrossion for weeksi
Now we oan jump on Florencel
LAMPUGNANO: The militery/want to know
PHILIP: But first I'll get married.
LAMFUGNMHO: Married?
PHILIP (TWEEKING HIS CHEEK) Didn't you know? I've
fallen in love. (AS THEY HELP HIM OUT) I had
a dream. I heard a man say to his wife, "And
now I'm g oing to take you home andoesnd Uocht
THEY ALL STUMBLE OUT OF THE PERSONAL
AREA.
IT IS STILL DAWN. THE DOGE AND
PAOLO CORNARO, WITH COUNCILL ORS,
PASS SLOWLY ACROSS THE OFEN AREA FROM
THE LIT.
DOGE: I can think of nicer things than discussing
Carmagnola all night---slooping in my own bed, for
inetanoe.


THEY ALL STRETCH AND YAWN AND LOOK
UP AT THE SKY.
CORNARO: What marvellous skies we have.
DOGE: Yet he never did seem intoxicated with
did hé?
Some people s imply aon't get bitten. oad. Do
you know what he said to me when he passed us just
now? Didn't you hear him?
COUNCILLOR: No.
DOGE: Most unoanny. He said, are you ooming from a late
counoil or going to an éarly one? And he laughed.
And I said, as a matter of fact.we've been talking
about you. That seemed to tickle him no end. Ho
doesn "t'suspeot a thing.
COUNCILLOR: That's usualt with solf-destructive people.
THIEY STROLL ON AND PASS OUT OF SIGHT
BEHIND THE THRONE ARRA. WE HEAR THEIR
VOICES, TALKING CASUALLY, AND ONE OF
THEM LAUGHS SOFTLY. * THB LIGHT CONTINUES
TO GROW. THIN A THEY ENTER THE THRONE
AREA.
DOGE : After all hets been given moro publio honours than
any other military commender in Venetian history--
two vast houses, a fiof, an income that made even
the Grand Chanoollor reel when he heard it. Philip
can offer him nothing by comparison. And yet...
CORNARO: Philipts most powerful weapon is charm, beliove
it. or not. He can oharm even me, his worst enemy..
DOGE: The faot remains that hets just attacked Florence.
Do we rob ourslves of a commander at this moment,
the only commander who can beat him-p?
CORNARO: But if hets being oharmed----?
DOGE: Don't you see weive got to take a chanoe? Fe've
invested in Carmagnola. And we've got to I wait
for the dividend.
CORNARO: If any.
CONCILLOR: Hero we go again. This is where wé started
last night.
CORNARO (TO THE DOGE) Very well. But I'm warning you,


he won't move à yard towards Milan.
THE ENEMY PRISONER ENTERS THE PERSONAL
AREA AND TAKES A SEAT AS IF. A MEETING
HAD BEEN ARRANGED. HE WAITS. THERE
IS THE SOUND OF DISTANT BATTLE.
DOGE: One thing we must do 18 keep his wife in Venico. If
only to interoépt her lotters.
COUNCILLOR: Yes, I've seen to that.
DOGE: Another point is this, we've got an absolutely water-
tight casé against him if we ever need At. For one
thing he '8 plotted to put his san, techinoally speak-
ing a Venetian nobleman, an the throne of Milan with-
out our prior knowledge.
CORNARO: You Boe, from poor old Carmagholats point of
view this damn-fool deed of . settlement whioh Philip
never means to sign is a step towards uniting Venice
and Milan.
DOGE: Also he's dying to be a prinde. He'd make quite a
good one 6 by the way.
COUNCILLOR: AB long as other people did his dirty tricks
for him.
DOGE: I wonder he never learned a good repertoire of
dirty tricks from Philip.
CARMAGNOLA ENTERS THE PERSOAL AREA
HURRIEDLY, IN UNIFORM AGAIN. THE
ENEMY PRISONER RISES SMARTLY.
CARMAGNOLA:
Well? I'vè only got a moment for you--i
ENI EMY PRISONER: Yos, it's true he *s marrying.
CARMAGNOLA: And why?
ENEMY FRISONER: Woll, naturally, as a political ploy.
Tonrid Vonice of an ally.
CARMAGNOLA: The duke of Savoy aotually agreed to leave us
if Philip married his daughter?
ENEMY PRISONER: Yes.
CARMAGNOLA: The damed foolt Ali right then. He'll get
his war. But I'll make him pay. I'll have him
hanging by one leg from his own battlements, and
the owls fighting eaoh other to get at his oarrion
flesht


ENEAY PRISONER: Philip, duke of Milan?
CARM/GNOLA:
That' ts the men I meant
THE ADJUTANT COMES IN HURRIEDLY.
ADJUTANT: Trevisano's surrounded--- (SEEING THE ENEMY
PRISONER FOR THE FIRST TIME).
CARMAGNOLA: Call my officers.
ADJUTANT: Yes sir.
HE LEAVES AGAIN.
CARMAGNOLA (ALSO PREPARING TO LEAVE) You, hear that?
ENEMY PRIS ONER (FOLLOWING HIM) - I hope you don't think
Philip capable of issue?
CARMAGNOLA: rell I always calied him the eunuch duke but-soe
ENEMY PRISONER: I should have thought his sterility was
famous :
CARMAGNOLA (STOPPING) Sterile?
ENEMY PRISOVER: Apart from the faot that he has already
signed the deed of settlementi
CARMAGNOLA (TO HIDE HIS ASTONISHED EXCITEMENT AT THE NEWS)
I'm supposed to believe that, the day before he
marries?
I EMY PRISONER: The dooument's. here, in my quarterst
A COUNCILLOR RUSHES INTO THE TIRONE AREA.
COUNCILLOR: Florence has capitubated: savoy is arming
against us.
DOGE: My Godt
THEY JUMP UP.
CORNARO: Get an envoy to Carmagnolal
DGE: Perhaps you should go yourself.
THEY LEAVE TEE THRONE AREA.
CARMAGNOLA STANDS BEFORE THE ENEMY
PRISONER AS IF HIS POWERS OF SPEECH
WERE PARALYSED.


ENEMY PRISONER: I ought to ada a personal message from
Philip: that the doge's council had an all-night
meeting to disouse your fate.
CARMAGNOLA: My fate----?
I IMY PRISONER: + And' ho hopes you wan't let our quarrel
develop itoo: bitterly in the next two dayée The
Venetian. fléet is already forming at the mouth of
the Po: thirty-seven gaileys, forty-eight emall
oraft, with ten thousand oarsmen in all--
CARMAGNOLA: Do you. think I don't know. that, you hired
snake?
EN HMY PRISONER: And I believe theytre promising you a
whole oity 1f you win. Over telve thousand men
have been put under your command. But remember
this: we oan pitch an équal force agains t you,
we have Pisa, Mantua and Ferrara on our side,
besides Savoy. You've just lost Florenoe. The
German empéror is on his way down into Italy---
CARMAGNOLA: At this moment my commander Trevisano is
surrounded--me
ENEIY PRISONER: You can get him out of danger without
moving from this spoti
CARMAGNOLA;
Fetoh Picainino offs Do you hear that?
ENEMY FRISONER (TRIUMPHANT) will you pronise to send
Trevisano no immediate relief? until I 0 ome back?
SOUNDS OF ALARM IN THE DISTANCE:
CARMAGNOLA: Get me that deed of settlement, quicki
THE ENELIY PRISONER DISAPPEARS AT
ONCE. CARHAGNOLA STANDS EXHAUS TED,
IRRESOLUTS.
THE ADJUTANT DASHES IN AGAIN.
ADJUTANT:
Trevisano wants supporti There are dead and
wounded everywheret
CARMAGNOLA: Tell him to fighti
ADJUTANT: He's asking you to crcate a diversion!
CARMAGNOLA: Take this letter domn. (FURTHER ALARMS OUT-
SIDES WHICH CARMAGNOLA DISREGARDS) "To the doge.
Another message has come from duke Philip of' Milan.


He wishes to assure us of his good- will and
integrity. : He reminds us that he is Italian,
and desires. to
prove himself"such; that, as
1t'is credibly reported that the emperor is coming
down to Italy, he wishes to make common causé
against him with Venice and Florence. And he is
begging me to arrange the preliminaries of such
a league o' 1 r Get that off at once.
ADJUTANT: And the present situation?
CARMAGNOLA: Shall I move camp and give Piccinino the
finest walk-over he's ever had?
THE AIJUTANT STARES AT HIM, SALUTES
AND GOKS. THE DISTANT BUGLES CONTIN-
UE TO SOUND, WHILE CARMAGNOLA PACES
UP AND DOWN, PREOCCUPIED.
PHILIP ENTERS THE THRONE AREA WUITE
ALONE, STRAINING ON HIS STICK, MAKING
SURE NO ONE IS FOLLOWING HIM. HE
STANDS WATCHING CARMAGNOLA BELOW IN
THE PERSONAL AREA. AND WHAT KE NOW
SAYS SEEMS TO TORTURE CARMAGNOLA,
PARALYSE HIM MORE COMPLETELY THAN
THE WORDS OF THE ENEMY PRISONER.
PHILIP: You see, all I have is my mind. My great
monents are thoughts, as yours are victories.
A political man can't help sacrificing lives.
He always has to choose the oheaper of two paths
expensive with. ovil. How oan I put 1t? To
bring your son to my throne, I must make the
throne valuablé, respeoted. Hence my declaration
ofwar. I must make Venice see the necoesity of
joining me, rather than resisting mo. Power 1s
a great persuader. of course there are idealists
even in politics but they never get high offioe.
There are certain implacable facts. Your train-
ing is necessarily alow.
CARMAGNOLA: Oh God, what have I done? Oh Godi
PHILIP: And the idea of one Italien atate shining wi th
oivilisation, perhaps under your son, the prince
of both Venice and Milan, is an ideai too, 1t may
be a dréam too, but Dante, Petrarch dreamed it.
By the time it got to our level it became. a plan.
And that's where you come in. Have I made you
strong enough, with the endless fuel of my ideas,
night after night, pacing across that bedroom
floor to the sound of the owl8--e-?


CARMAGNOLA: Oh Gods
PHILIP: can you fulfil the ideal without being an
idealist? There is the hub of all political pain.
HE STANDS WATCHING CARMAGNOLA.
THE ADJUTANT ENTERS QUIETLY, AS PHILIP
LIMPS BAINFULLY OUT OF THE THROE AREA.
ADJUTANT: Sir, therets someone from Venice.
CARMAGNOLA (IN ANT OUTBURST)
I won't have any more spiest
ADJUTANT: He comes from the doge.
CARMAGNOLA:
The doge himself 1s a spy--t
CORNARO SUDDENLY STANIS BEFORE HIM.
CARMAGNOLAS Ah, it's you,
THEY EMBRACE.
CORNARO: ' Trevisano capitulated' an hour ago. i've arrest-
ed. him and his officers on a charge of cowardice.
CARMAGNOLA: And 80 you should. AE if I oan move camp
and teach Trevisano tactios.
CORNARO (WATCHING: HIM) : :The carnago was frightful.
CARMAGNOLA (TO THE DIJUTANT) All right.
THE ADJUTANT LEAVIS.
CARMAGNOLA:
*The carnage was frightful'. - That doesn 't
carry an inference, does it?
COFVARO: No. Otherwise we would have arrested you, surely?
CORNARO COVERS THIS WITH A LAUGH.
CARMAGNO OLA: And why are you hero?
CORNARO: If you attack now, if you take Milan now,
Milan will be yours. That ts my message. You
may sit where Philip 1s sitting at this moment,
but it must be done quicklyt The summer's passing
awayi
CARMAGNOLA CONSIDERS THIS WITH GREAT
DELIBERATIAN.


CARMAGNOLA: My answer to Philip after monthe of
negotiation will be to destroy his oity?
CORNARO: My lord, why do you trust this proved liar?
CARMAGNOLA: Oh I bould take his thronet But could I
win the loyalty of hie noblemen?
CORNARO: You're a Viéconti after allt
CARMAGNOLA: But-w
CORNARO: My dear sir, you doubt youreelf---your powers?
CARMAGNOLA: Yos, I-ese-l
HE STOPS IN CONFUSION AMD THERE IS
SILENCE.
CORNARO: Hy lord, will you attack Milan?
CARMAGNOLA: - I shall do what I'm ordered to do.:
CORNARO: Xou are ordered to cease negotiating with
Philip.
TARMAGNOLA (AFTER A CRUSHED PAUSE) Very weil.
CORNARO: You'will cross the riwr Aada. You will
reduce Milan.
CARMAGNOLA NODS. CORNARO IS
ABOUT TO LRAVE WHEN CARMAGN OLA
SPEKAS AGAIN.
CARMAGNOLA: May I--? (CORNARO TURNS) - -agive you
my coneidered answer in an hour?
CORNARO (WITH A LONG SIGH) - Very wéll.
HE LEAVES SLOWLY.
CARMAGNOLA STANDS THINKING TO HIMSELF
FOR SOME TIME.
CARMAGNOLA: Adjutants Adjutant!
THE ADJUTANT APPEARS.
CARMAGNOLA: Show the savoyard in.
THE ADJUTANT DISAPPEARS AND THEN


USHERS IN THE ENEMY PRISONER.
WHEN CARELAGNOLA AND THE ENI EMY PRISONER
ARE ALONE THE LATTER JAYS A DOCUMENT
ON THE TABLE WITHOUT A WORD.
CARMAGNOLA: Leave quickly.
THE ENEYY PRISONER GOES.
CARMAGNOLA SITS DOTN TO READ THE
DOCUMENT WITH GREAT SATISFACTION.
THERE IS THE SOUND OF A DISTANT
CANNONADE.
IE ENEMY PRISONER PASSES ACROSS THE
OPEN AREA ON HIS WAY BACK TO HIS
QUARTERS. THE ADJUTANT WALKS BEAIND
HIM.
ADJUTANT: Monsieur Henri Colombiers
ENEMY PRISONER (TURNING) oui?
AT THIS MOMENT TWO HOODED FIGURES
COME IN FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE AND
SEIZE THE ENEMY PRISONER.FROM BERIND
WHILE HIE IS FACING THE ADJUTANT.
THEY PUT FANDS OVER HIS MOUTH AND
BEAR HIM STRUGGLING AWAY. THE ADJUTANT
STROLLS BACK AFTER THEM.
CORNARO ENTERS THE PERSONAL AREA
AGAIN SILENTLY.
CORNARO: nell sir?
CARMAGNOLA STARTS AND THRUSTS THE
DEED or SETTLEMENT AWAY.
CARMAGNOLA: Sit down by me.
CORNARO DOES so. THERE IS AGAIN
THE RUMBLE OF DISTANT CANNONS.
CARMAGNOLA POURS TINE BUT COPNARO
LEAVES HIS UNTOUCHED a
CARMAGNOLA: I shall attacko
CORNARO: Ahi
CARMAGNOLA: But aftor caroful consideration I must
point out that a full-scale atteck this surmer


is out of the
with your pérmissi an I
should 1ike to oeation: plan
a spring campaign next year $
when we will scotch this eunuch duke.
CORNARO: But your men are : in fine candition. Picoinino
has just lost a battles
CARMAGNOLA: All the same, moving from camp now, on the
basis of a hastily prepared campaign, at the height
of the summer, * would be disastroud to mp mind.
CORNARO: Is. that your last word?
CARMAGNOLA: Yes.
CORNARO: Iy instructiona were to plead with you for an
immediate attack but that if for any reascn you felt
it impossible this yéar, I was ' to ask you to return
to Venice for consultations. I am to sey that
various plens have éuggestad themselves to the
signary for a spring campaign next year but that
much difference of orfinion existsmm
CARMAGNOLA: Well, of courso, it does take a lot of
preparation---
CORNARO: mewand since you ènjoy péculiarly intimate
conversance with Lombard goography on both sides
of the Po the dogo bogs you to come to Vonice as
soon as you oan.
CARMAGNOLA: of dourse &
CORNARO: Then I shall arrange for thé Marquis of Mantua
to receive you on the way with full military
honours-wpe
CARMAGNOLA: Ohs
CORNARO: And of dourse all Venioe will turn cut for you
as usual. When will you leave?
CARMAGNOLA: Shy (WITH A SMILE) with a lovely wife in
Veniee, I could even leave tonight.
CORNARO RISES.
CARMAGNOLA - (POINTING OUT HIS UNTOUCHED GLASS) Won't you
drink to me before we leave?
CORNARO:
With all my heart, sir.
HE FUTS BACK THE GLASS IN A FEW GULFS.


CARMAGNOLA (ALSO RISING, AND TAKING THE DEED OF SETTLE-
MENT) Have I convinced you---personally, I mean?
CORNARO: Well, a campaign, now might get us 'into the storny
season, yes
MORE CANNON, CLOSER NOW.
THEY LEAVE TOGETHER.
ANTONIETTA CROSSES THE OPEN AREA ON
CLOGS, HER HANDS ON THE HEADS OF TWO
SERVING WOMEN AS BEFORE, AGAIN ACCOM
PANIED BY MARIA.
A DOGE 'S COUNCILLOER COMES FROM THE
OPPOSITE SIDE AND BOTS TO HER. SHE
IS ABOUT TO PASS ON WHEN HE SPEAKS TO
HER.
COUNCILL QR: My lady Visconti.
ANTONIETTA (TAKING IT AS A NORMAL GREETING) Good morning.
COUNCILLOR (GENTLY STOPPING HFR) Vould you like to return
to your house, my lady?
ANTONIETTA: I beg your pardon?
COUNCILLOR:
Will you please return to your house?
ANTON IETTA: I'm on my way to the countrys
COUNCILLOR: It would pleasé the doge, my lady, if you
return ed to your house.
ANTONIETTA (STARING AT HI) Oh my Gods.
MARIA: Whatts the matter?
ANTONIETTA: Turn, turnt
STEADYING HERSELF ON THE SERV INC
WOMEN, SEE TURNS BACK.
ANTONIETTA: Follow met
THE COUNCILLOR RIAINS AT A. DISTANCE
WATCHING RIGIDLY AS THR LITTLE PARTY
RETURNS THE' WAY IT CALE, WITI MARIA
GIVING FRIGHTNED GLANCES BACK AT HIM a


SLOWLY THE COUNCILLOR FOLLOWS THEM.
AT ONCE THE BELL OF THE CAMPANILE
SOUNIS, TOGETHER WITH TRUMPETS AND
THE MUSIC OF CELEBRATION. DRULB 6
WE HEAR CHEERING CROIDS.
THE SAML COUNC ILLOR ENTERS THE THRONE
AREA ALONE AND SIMPLY STANDS THERE.
CARMAGNOLA AND CORNARO TOGETHER WITH
ATTENDANTS PASS ACROSS THE OPEN AREA
IN PROCESSIGN FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.
AS THEY DO so TWO MUFFLED FIGURES
ENTER THIE PERSONAL AREA AND RANSACK
ALL TIE DRAWERS THEY CAN FIND, COLLECT
UP DOCUMENTS, FULL AWAY THE BED, BLAN-
KETS. WHEN THIS IS DONE THEY REMOVE
EVERY ARTICLE OF FURNITURE TOO. THE
PERSONAL AFEA IS LEFT VITH A STOOL
ONLY. A THIRD FUGURE ENTERS AND ATT-
ACHES A HEAVY CHAIN WITI ANKLE GRIPS
TO THE FLOOR. IT FAS BEC OME A
PESSOS CELL:
THE SOUNDS OF CELEBRATION Ca TINUE
AND CARMAGN OLA PASSES SMILING.
A FANFARE OF TRUMPETS VLECOMES HIM
AS HE PASSES OUT OF SIGHT EEHIND THE
THRONE AREA.
THE COUNCILLOR IN TEE THRONE AREN
WAITS TO RECEIVE HIM, AND CAHMAGNOLA
ENTERS THE AREA SMILING, TURNING AT
ONCE TOWARDS THE DUCAL THRONE TO EM
BRACE THE DOGE, WHOM HE H NDS ABSENT.
HE LOOKS AT THE COUNCILLOR QUESTION-
INGLY.
COUNC ILLOR: Your magnificence, the aage had a slight fall
coming down the stairs and mutst postpone the audionce,
with your permission.
CARMAGNOLA: But I've much to say to him, I've come a long
may-w-couldigo to his apertments?
COUNCILLOR: He won't be out of the doctor's hands until
late today.
CARMAGNOLA: I'm sarry, then.


CARMAGNOLA LEAVES THE THRONE AREA
AGAIN WITH THE COUNCILLOR BEHIND HIM.
THE SOUNDS OF CELEBRATION CONTINUE IN
THE DISTANCE.
THEY BOTH APPRAR AGAIN IN THE OPEN ARRA,
ACCOMPANIED NOT7 BY PAOLO CORNARO.
CARMAGNOLA STOPS ABOUT CENTRE STAGE,
MEANING TO LEAVE THEM.
CARMAGNOLA (POINTING UPSTAGE LEFT) liell, thie is my way.
COUNCILLOR: No, my lord, your way lies here (POINTING
TOWARDS THE PERSONAL AREA).
CARMAGNOLA: But, surely, the gatos are there---?
COUNC ILLOR: Count Carmagnola, that (POINTING IMPLACABLY)
18 your way.
CARMAGNOLA (AFTER A QUESTICTING STARE AT CORNARO) Ah, I
was right thent I was rights
THE TWO MUFFLED FIGURES RE-ENTER AND
CLOSE av HIM. PAOLO CORNARO SLIPS
ARAY WITHOUT A WORD.
THE SOUNDS OF CELEBRATION HAVE CEASED.
IN THE SILENCE PRILIP ÉNTERS THE
THRONE AREA AND CALMLY COMPOSES HIM-
SELF ON THE THRONE AS IF TO WATCH
A GRERT SPECTACLE.
CARMAGNOLA IS LED INTO THE PERSONAL
AREA AND HIS LEG IS LOCKED IN THE IRON
GRIP. THEY LEAVE HIM.
THE CAMPANILE BIGINS TO TOLL AS FOR
A TRAITOR.
CARMAGNOLA: So audden
PHILIP (STRAINING FORTARD) Did he say something?
ANTONIETTA APPEARS IN THE PERSONAL
AREA.
CARMAGNOLA: Antoniettat You see?
ANTONIETTA: They found the deed of settlementa They
saw all my letters...


CARMAGNOLA: Do you know---they offered me Milan---tho
Venetians didf---I turned it domn, because I
couldn't bear towsato--g
PHILIP STRAINS FORWARD AGAIN.
TYO ATTENDANTS INTER THE PERSONAL. AREA
AND BEGIN STRIPPING CARMAGNOLA OF HIS
ROBES. THEY LEAD HIM OUT.
PHILIP: Hé won't take long to oonfess. Like all military
men he's rather soft underneath.
THE CAMPANILE CONTINUES TOLLING.
PHILIP (TO ANTONIETTA) Your house is ready for you. You
can stay in Venioe a month or so after his exeoution--
AN TONI IETTA: Not
PHILIP: Then come back to us, with your ohild. And who
knows I may have anothor husband for you.
CARMAGNOLA SCREAMS, OFF.
ANTONIETTA: . I love himt I love himt
ATTENDANTS ENTER AND TAKE HER OUT,
CRYING.
RICCI ENTERS THE THRONE AREA.
RICCI: The Venetian, navy
PHILIP: S8aht I only heard one soreamo
RICCI: My lord?
PHILIP: Exaotly as I thought, one touch of the braziers
and he told them everything. Well, they know the
man they re dealing with now. I mean me. It
doesn *t do to leave the servioe of a politioal
man like me,
RICCI (STARING AT HIM) Yes sir.
PHILIP: You seé, Carmegnola's in prison.
RICCI: Carmagnola?! The great Carmagnolag
CARMIONOLA IS LED BACK INTO THE
PERSONAL AREA, SHIVERING AND CRYING.
ANTONIETTA WALKS ACROSS THE OPEN


AREA, HILPED BY MARIAS THE TOLLING
CONTINUES.
PHILIP: You wore saying?
RICCI:
Thé Venetian fleet in the Po has been all but
annihilated.
PHILIP: Thatts gratifying.
RICOI: Is that all you have to say after your finest
viotory yet?
PHILIP: If youta had as many triumphs as I've had you ta
know they turn sour in your mouth.
THE BISHOP ENTERS TFE PERS CTAL AREA.
PHILIP WAVES RICCI AWAY, AS IT TO
ENJOY A NEW SPECTACLE.
CARMAGNOLA: Have they decided?
BISHOP: Not yet.
CARMAGNOLA: Rhat are the indie tmén ts?
BISHOP: Failing to support Trevisano. Collusion with
Philip duke of Milan over the battle of Cremona.
CARMAGNOLA: And my wife---?
BISHOP: She *11 be safe. Her property will remain hers.
I can assure you of that.
CARMAGNOLA: Do you remember our conversation?
BISHOP: Yes.
CARMAGNOLA: I tried to. find what you said---inside. I
think I did. One day, in the evening, after a
little skirmish, when the sun was going down and
it was etill dusty, I felt a marvellous peace and
knew it. was sc omething basio, the thing that joined
me to the rest of the world. I wasn 't alone any
more.
BISHOP: Yet you ended heres
CARMAGNOLA: Because I aid what my heart advised, and not
my head.
BISHOP: Your heart advised you to negotiate with a liar


and a pagan?
CARMAGNOLA: Yese
BISHOP: with the end of putting your Bon on his throne?
CARMAGNOLA: With the end of stopping wari
BISHOP: You, a military cormander?
CARMAGNOLA: He taught me to be more than thatt
BISHOP: He?
CARMAGNOLA: Philips
BISHOP: Do you realise he plotted and sohemed your
downfall?
CARMAGNOLA: Yeb.
BISHOP: Do you forgive him?
CARMAGN OLA: Yos, fathers with all my heart.
A SIGH ESCAPES PHILIP.
BISHOP: If they decide on your death, would you like to
remain Venetian?
CARMAGNOLA: My humble wish is to be buried in the Frari,
among the gréat Venetians, beoause in my heart I am
no traitor, only a fool.
BISHOP: Venice lavished all she could cn yous Do you
forgive her? do you forgive Francesco Foscari,
the dage? paolo Cornaro?
CARMAGNOLA: .With all my heart.
BISHOP: Have you anything to pay?
CARMAGNOLA: Believing that power can ever be turned to
good, that mas my sin.
BISHOP: What ought you to have done?
CARMI GNOLA: Given up poner.
BISHOP: Can good only be achieved by tho powerless then?
CARNAGNOLA: Good is a light that shines from a man, not
from his place, his baton, his cotrt.


98 ds
BISHOP: Then think of your presence here as a step on the
vay. You are laying down your power now. God has
been showing you all this time that at last it must
be given up. You are about to realise yourself--e
CARMAGNOLA: But I'm afraid, afraid----g
THE BISHOP BLESSES CARMAGNOLA:
BISHOP: Misereitur tui onnipotens Deus, ot, ajmissis
pecoétis tuie, pérduoat to ad vitam aotérnam.
CARMAGNOLA: Amon.
BISHOP: Indulgéntion, absolutionem, et remiasionem
peogatorum tuorun tribuat tibi omnipotons et
misorioors Dominus.
CARMAGNOLA: Amen.
BISHOP: Dominus noster Jesus Christus
absolvat;
et ego auctoritate ipedus. te 09.r00 ab omi
vinoulo excommmicationie, ot interdicts, in
quantum possum, ot tu andiges; deinde ezo to
absolvo a peocatis tuis, in nomine Patris, et
Filii (SIGN OF THE CROSS) et Spiritus sanoti.
CARMAGNOLA: Amen.
THE BISHOP LEAVES.
PHILIP: Do you remembor? Di pensier in pensier, di
monte in monte...
CARMAGNOLA: From thought to thought, from hill to
PHILIP: M1 guida Amor.
CARMAGNOLA; Love is my guide.
PHILIP: E, com* Amor la 'nvita, or ride or piagne or
teme or Blassicural
CARMAGNOLA: And my spirit smiles, oriés, fears, feels
sefe accbrding to what Love wantsi
FHILIP: Onde alla vista uom ai tal vita esperto diria:


quésti 'arde, e'disuo 'stato & incerto.
CARMAGNOLA (CRYING OUT DESPARATELY) So that any man expert
in a life like mine would say, He burns, hers uncort-
ain of his life, of what's epaig to happen, he burns,
A HOODED FIGURE BEARING A CROSS STANDS
AT THE DOOR AND CARMAGNOLA STARTS.
THE HOOD IS POINTED, VITI SLITS FOR
THE EYES : A CASSOCK REACHES TO THE
FENT.
THE BISHOP RETURIS. THE TOLLING OF
THE CAMPANILE BECOMES LOUDIR. THERE
IS THE DRUM TAP or EXECUTION.
BISHOP: You will receive zaxt communion, my Bon, at the
churoh of san Fantin-e
CARMAGNOLA (IN HORROR) san Fentint
THE HOODED FIGURE WITH THE CROSS GOES
BEFORE CARMAGNOLA. THE BISHOP FOLL-
OVS THEM OUT.
A PROCESSION OF SIMILARLY HOODED
FIGURES LED BY THE CROS3 (THE OTHERS
HOLD CANDLES ON WOODEN HOLDERS) CROSS
THE OPEN ARFA TOTAR DS THE RIGHT.
CARMAGNOLA FOLLOWS ALONE, ALSO HOODED
NOm.
PHILIP: Count Carmagnola is on his way to his last
communion, having been confessed. By traditian
the traitors of Venice are given last oommunion
at the dismal, dark-fronted church of san Fentine
THE SOUND OF FRIARS CHANTING FROM
INSIDE THE CHURCH.
THE PROCESSION DISAPPEARS. PHILIP
STANDS, CRANING, TO KEEP SIGET OF
THEAI, HIS MOUTH OPEN i SHAYING ON HIS
STICK.
THE DRUM-TAES, THE GREGORIAN CHANT
AND THE BELL OF THE CAMPANILE REACH
THEIR CLIMAX.
H ILIP: He will now be taken, relioved of his hood and
cloak, to the placo of execution, between the
colums at the edge. of the sea. HiS head will
be sevéred from his-body. The dage, by the way,


mas against thé death penalty. So was Faolo
Cornaro. But they were out-votod. Carmagnola
is considerod too poverfud, and too knowledgeable,
to live. His exeouption was voted by twenty seven
to nineteenf
THE PROCESSION, PASSES AGAIN ACROSS THE
OPEN AREA SLOWLY AND THIS TIME. CARMAGNOLA
HAS A GAG IN HIS HOUTE AND IS WEARING
A SCARLET VEST WITH TRIMMED SLEEVES,
LEGGINGS OF THE SAME COLOUR, A CRILSO
JERKIN AND A VELVET ÇAP A LA CARMAGNOLA.
HIS HANDS ARE TIED BERIND HIM.
WE HEAR'A CROWD. THE DRUM BEATS COME
TO IHE FORE. THE LIGHT GROWS MORE
BRILLIANT.
PHILIP FOLLOWS EVERY MOVEMENT CLOSER Y /
CRANING.
THE DOGE AND HIS COUNCILL ORS FOLLOW
THE PROCESSION AT A DIS' TANCE. THE
DOGE HAS HIS HEAD BOWRD MUTELY, AND'
TALKS UNSTEADILY a CORNARO HELPS HIM.
IN THE SAME PARTY ARE AN TONIETTA AND
HARIA IN LONG BLACK VEILS.
THE BELL OF THE CAMPANILE CEASES -
THE CROWD IS HUSHED a THE OPEN AREA
IS EMPTY.
PHILIP: I vast crowd... a 17ho not many days before cheered
Carmagnola thr cugh the side-canals on his way to
the ducal palace.
SILENCE.
SUDDENLY THERE IS THE SOUND OF A FALL-
ING AXE---A GREAT THUMP FOLLOWED BY
ANOTHER. AT EACH STROKE PHILIP IS
CONVULSED WIH HORROR, so MUCH THAT
HE SEEMS ABOUT TO FALL.
AT THE THIRD STROKE THERE IS. A GREAT
CRY OF SEINTURAI SVENTURAI FROM THE
CROND.
FHILIP IS TREHBLING WIT THE EFFORT
TO CALL OUT TO SOMEONE. so POWER-
FUL IS HIS HORROR THAT, HIS STICK
FALLEN TO THE GROUND, HIS BOLY SEEMS
TO. BE SUSTAINED CT INVISIBLE WINGS.


IN A LAST RFFORT HE MANAGES TO CRY OUT:
PHILIP (POINTING) Eis headt His headg
RICCI AND LAMPUGNANO RUSH INo
THE BELL OF TEE CAMPANILE IS HEARD
AGAIN..
THE COURTIERS BEAR PHILIP BACK TO THE
THRONE.
PHILIP: Bloodt I sawawes
LAMPUGNANO: Yes, yest
PHILIP CONTINUES TO STARE IN THE
DIRECTION OF THE EXECUTION.
THE DOGE AND HIS COUNCILLORS STROLL
BACKA
ANTOVIE TTA AND MARIA ALSO PASS SLOTLY
ACROSS THE OPEN AREA, ANTONIETTA
FAINTS AND THE DOGE'S COUNCILLORS
RUN FORWARD TO PICK HER UP. SHE IS
CARRIED AWAY.
MARIA REMAINS ALONE. SHE LETS OUT
A LONG KEENING CRY AND BEGINS TEARING
THE CLOTHES ATAY FROM HER BREAST AND
LOOSENING HER HAIR FRANTICALLY UNTIL
IT IS AIL OVER HER. FACE. A COUNCILLOR
RUSHES BACK AND SUPPORTS HER OFF.
HER CRIES DIE AWAY.
PHILIP:
Did you hear the crowd? Bad luck, bad luck',
they said.
RICCI: The crond?
PHILIP: But it isn't truo. He wont Yes he won in the
endt
HE BEGINS LAUGHING QUIRTLY.
LAMPUGNANO: Who won?
PHILIP: Carmagnola. Do you know, they ve even promised
to bury him in the Frari, among the greatest heroos
of Venetian history? Shall we hunt?


1o8
THEY HELP HIM OUT OF THE THRONE.
THE CAMPANILE CONTINUES TO TOLL.
CURTAIN


APPENDIX 1.
COSTUMES
The doge's official costume was the s0-called -
'dalmatic', a wide-sleeved, loose and long restment
with slit sides, of gold or silver, with a cloak of
golden brocade trimmed with ermine on top; he wore
a hat of fine cambric Which was never taken off even
in church, with ear-flaps and strings; on this he
plac ed the biretta or como, with its horn-shaped
orown, made sometimes with cloth of gold and some-
times with crims on silk bordered with gold, and Occ-
asionally studded with gems. For an audience he
might wear a dark scarlet robe with a biretta of the
same colour.
For a normal audtence in the Collegio the doge
had on his right the Lord Chancellor in a great dark-
blue toga and ample white collar falling on to the
shoulders, with a wide hat. The six councillors had
bright red togas with dark blue hats rather like swollen
berets.
The toga (the obligatory wear of the Venetian
nobleman wherever he went) had voluminous sleeves, the
length of which depended on his social distinotion.
The doge 's reached to the ground.


Trumpeters for great state occasions, in process ion,
were six in number and had their long silver instrumen ts
held out in front of them by pages.
N.B. The words CUSTODES LIBERTATIS may be suspended
over the doge's throne, in imitation of the Collegio throne.
It could surmount the St Mark's banner dropped behind the
throne when the scene is. Venice, while the Visc cnti arms
could be dropped. for the Milanese scenes.
APPENDIX 2.
MAINCRARACTERS
FRANCESCO CARMAGNOLA was born in 1390, BHILIP DUKE OF
MILAN in 1392, and FRANCESCO FOSCARI, doge of Venice,
in 1362. Carmagnola was therefore forty-two when, on
5th May 1432, he was led to his execution. Foscari
became doge in 1423 when he was sixty-one.
There are portraits of Carmagnola and Foscari,
but Philip always refused to have his portrait painted:
however, the description of him that has been left by
a chronicler is very detailed. Philip and Foscari
were said to resemble each other; though to judge by
his portrait the doge Foscari was the handsomer of the
two.