Lamore Dei Tre Re Tragic Poem In Three Acts

Author : Sem Benelli
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267816590
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book L'amore Dei Tre Re written by Sem Benelli and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from L'amore Dei Tre Re: Tragic Poem in 3 Acts And Avito entreated Fiora out of his love and despair, while she, feigning a cold anger, bade him go his ways, and fell to the waving of her kerchief. Yet still did Avito entreat and cry his passion and kiss the golden fringe that hung from her mantle. For her hand had embroidered it. Then more and more droopingly did she wave the scarf, until at last it was as lead in her hand. Then came she suddenly down from the high place-and fell weeping upon his heart and gave herself utterly to him. In the sunset they sat upon the great stone seat and drank their ecstacy of love, knowing not that old Archibaldo was stealing upon them. Though he was sightless, yet did he hear and know, and a great and bitter lust of vengeance came upon him. But Avito evaded him in his blindness, and Fiora, though she vaunted her lover cruelly to the old man's face, would not say his name. Then the old king, beside himself, seized her by her false throat and strangled her, and she lay dead upon the great seat. ... As he stood before her body to hide it, Manfredo came striding out of the gathering night. For when he had seen the kerchief drop from Fiora's hand fear had come upon him that ill had befallen her. His father told him what ill had really befallen and what he had done. Hearing, Manfredo cried aloud that there was such love, then, in the girl's heart - a love that was stronger than life - yet she would not give it him. He would fain to know to whom she had given it. Old Archibaldo knew not, and when Manfredo shrank from him, he cast Fiora's body over his shoulder and went his way. The Third Act. In the crypt of the castle, wherein the image of God Himself looked down upon it, was spread Fiora's bier with white flowers all about her and white candles at her head and feet. Around her the youth and the old woman of the castle made their moan and the distant choir answered them, praising God, who is Lord of Death as He is of life. Between their chanting, they whispered that Fiora had been slain in vengeance. Then out of the darkness came Avito. By Fiora's bier he knelt and cried for death with her. But when he thought to kiss her cold lips they were hot with a poison that the crafty old king had smeared upon them as a snare wherein to catch him whose harlot she had been. When the poison had spread through Avito's veins and he was like to die, Manfredo came also to the bier. He saw Avito and knew, but he would not slay him, since he, too, had come to die by the poison of a woman's lips. Then in the darkness old Archibaldo seized him for Fiora's lover, but when he knew that it was his son who was dead, too, he cried that all were gone where there is only the darkness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.