Bellini Monologue from The Immortal Lure

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

male · dramatic · 1:09 min

Never! never! Only your unrelenting brain would think it. For this I know of her, that tho she has Deserted you for what must seem to be Only a new-found passion-- Yet is she womanly, and did you give her, As now you mean, to avid lusting eyes, Life would be smitten from her. (Giorgione: As it should!) And then from you, repentant of her fate? No, no, my son, I have not seen you rise, A planet from the sea, the world's first painter, To set in this: You owe my fathering more. And listen, I have brought to you a way Of laurels for forgetting. I have come With a commission from the Signoria, [ (Takes it from his breast.) Which names you the chief glory of this city And votes you proud permission to adorn San Marco's highest altar with perfection.

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