Lomellino Monologue from Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy

From Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

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I should intercede for his life until he shall have paid my five thousand crowns. (Writes.) Death strikes the balance. (GIANETTINO: Vincent Calcagno.) Calcagno. The twelfth I write at my own risk, unless our mortal enemy be overlooked. (GIANETTINO: The end crowns all--Joseph Verrina.) He is the very head of the viper that threatens us. (Rises and presents the paper to GIANETTINO.) Two days hence death shall make a splendid feast, at which twelve of the chief of Genoa's nobles will be present. GIANETTINO (signs the paper). 'Tis done. Two days hence will be the ducal election. When the senate shall be assembled for that purpose these twelve shall, on the signal of a handkerchief, be suddenly laid low. My two hundred Germans will have surrounded the senate-house. At that moment I enter and claim homage as the Duke. (Rings the bell.)

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