DRAMATIS PERSONE.

MEN.

MARINO FALIERO, Doge of Venice.
BERTUCCIO FALIERO, Nephew of the Doge.
LIONI, a Patrician and Senator.

BENINTENDE, Chief of the Council of Ten.
MICHAEL STENO, one of the three Capi of the Forty,
ISRAEL BERTUCCIO, Chief of

the Arsenal.

PHILIP CALENDARO,

DAGOLINO,

BERTRAM,

Signor of the Night,

First Citizen.
Second Citizen.

Third Citizen.

VINCENZO,

PIETRO,

BATTISTA.

>Conspirators.

Signore, di Notte" one of the Officers belonging to the Republic.

Officers belonging to the Ducal Palace.

Secretary of the Council of Ten.

Guards, Conspirators, Citizens, The Council of Ten, The Giunta, &c. &c.

WOMEN.

ANGIOLINA, Wife to the Doge.

MARIANNA, her Friend.

Female Attendants, &c.

Scene VENICE-in the year 1355.

MARINO FALIERO.

ACT I. SCENE I.

An Antichamber in the Ducal Palace.

PIETRO speaks, in entering, to BATTISTA.

PIETRO.

Is not the messenger return'd?

BATTISTA.

Not yet;

I have sent frequently, as you commanded,
But still the Signory is deep in council
And long debate on Steno's accusation.

PIETRO.

Too long-at least so thinks the Doge.

BATTISTA.

These moments of suspense?

PIETRO.

How bears he

With struggling patience.

Placed at the ducal table, cover'd o'er

With all the apparel of the state; petitions,

Despatches, judgments, acts, reprieves, reports,
He sits as rapt in duty; but whene'er

He hears the jarring of a distant door,
Or aught that intimates a coming step,
Or murmur of a voice, his quick eye wanders,
And he will start up from his chair, then pause,
And seat himself again, and fix his gaze
Upon some edict; but I have observed

For the last hour he has not turn'd a leaf.

BATTISTA.

'Tis said he is much moved, and doubtless 'twas Foul scorn in Steno to offend so grossly.

PIETRO.

Ay, if a poor man: Steno's a patrician,
Young, galliard, gay, and haughty.

BATTISTA.

He will not be judged hardly.

PIETRO.

Then you think

'Twere enough

He be judged justly; but 'tis not for us
To anticipate the sentence of the Forty.

BATTISTA.

And here it comes.-What news, Vincenzo?

Enter VINCEnzo.

VINCENZO.

Decided; but as yet his doom's unknown:

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