Capponi
Where are you coming from so out of breath, young fellow?
Where did you come from?
Bennozzo
I come from the tower!
Several
Which tower?
you
Bennozzo
Where do think I've been, Rosina? On Aminelli's tower!
Rosim
What is that to me? àhall I be astonished at your having limbed
a tower?
Bennozzo
What do you think I saw?
Several
Well,what?
Bennozzo
It glitters in the distance like a red snake
And wind and moves and creeps this way
As from out the Iouds! There are helmets
Shialds, and lances,which in the flow
of the setting sun glisten,at least
The waters on the tower told me. And know, from Rome
And Sienna they draw near, and with them
Caesar Borgia himself.
( Excitement)
Capponi
Who says, that Borgia is with them?
Bennozzo
They all say so
Cappon!
Who has seen him? Borgis is no doubt still in Rome!
Basini
Or here and there!
Capponi
What do you mean by
that?
Basini
Don't you know, that
the Borgia has the power to be in two places
at once?
Capponi
What do you tell us?