Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_The_ CARDINAL'S _Study in the Palace at Mantua. The_ CARDINAL _is seated at a table covered with Persian embroidery, rose-colour picked out with blue, on which lies open a volume of Machiavelli's works, and in it a manuscript of Catullus; alongside thereof are a bell and a ma...
_A few weeks later. The new music room in the Palace of Mantua. Windows on both sides admitting a view of the lake, so that the hall looks like a galley surrounded by water. Out...
3. ACT III_Three months later. Another part of the Palace of Mantua: the hanging gardens in the_ DUKE'S _apartments. It is the first warm night of Spring. The lemon trees have been brough...
2. ACT II_A few months later. Another part of the Ducal Palace of Mantua. The_ DUCHESS'S _closet: a small irregular chamber; the vaulted ceiling painted with Giottesque patterns in blue...
5. ACT V_Two months later. The wedding day of the_ DUKE. _Another part of the Palace of Mantua. A long terrace still to be seen, with roof supported by columns. It looks on one side on...
1. ACT I_The_ CARDINAL'S _Study in the Palace at Mantua. The_ CARDINAL _is seated at a table covered with Persian embroidery, rose-colour picked out with blue, on which lies open a volu...