10.
Euter Ribaldi)
( Salutations)
cosini
Only Dount Fantuzzi keeps us waiting.
Magrani
And the Duke himself.
Guidott!
Look, there he wanders to and fro, as if Borgia did not exist, no
Mariscotti,and even as if there were no Beatrice.
Ribaldi
I beg of you! Shee we the me idem!
Guidott!
The saiden? Wint m. idem? The Duchess,you mean?
Ribaldi
Yes,who is ablected for a night to play the Duchess!
cosinI
What are you thinking of, Ribaldi! She is much the Duchess of
Bologna,as any of
the others were,whom the Cardinal himself
Carried to the Duke!
Ribaldi
The Cardinal? What?
You are j Eking, are you not?
Arlotti
Nov you see that we know about it!
Cosini
What?
Arlotti
Oh! they say, that it was not at all the Cardinal, but a Florentine
joker, and that the
thing, as I told you is, but a carnival.
cosini
I beg of you!
Magnand
How can anyone believe such a thing, that the Duke of Bologna,
would make light of the church.
Ribald
How make light! Th=Cardinal
passed there by the Post
the Cope wishes our downfall, and Cassar is his son! It would
not be a bad idea
seoff at the wholeette byowd.
Guidott:
By my soul you are right! It pain me, that it was a real Cardin-
al, and a real me