{ "schema": "magalia-opera-libretto-1", "source": { "url": "http://www.impresario.ch/libretto/libhaejul_i.htm", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-11", "raw_file": "impresario-giulio-cesare.raw.html", "bytes": 76219, "sha256": "c548e395662682f3aac3c7d6ad2e2731c40bb1d0de9f4e36b906e7a5cf9536b2", "encoding": "iso-8859-1", "title": "Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Libretto - italiano)", "representation": "Web transcription; source bytes retained; HTML entities decoded and layout whitespace normalized; spelling is not silently corrected.", "editorial_cautions": [ "Website has spelling/transcription defects; Italian retained exactly after HTML whitespace normalization.", "No da capo repeat instructions occur in this web text. Absence from this witness is not a claim that arias lack da capo.", "CLEOPATREA and SEST speaker typos mapped to CLEOPATRA and SESTO; raw markers preserved in raw HTML.", "Speaker headings and musical/scene labels represented structurally; all scene and musical headings retained as stage segments.", "SCENA ULTIMA in Act III mapped to scene 10.", "HTML line metadata records containing-element ancestor positions. 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(Caesar and Curio cross the bridge with their followers.)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 1, unit gc-a1-s01-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 83 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 83 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s01-u003", "act": 1, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 1 - Coro", "en": "No. 1 — Chorus", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 1, unit gc-a1-s01-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 84 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 1 - Coro", "source_rows": [ 84 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s01-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CHORUS", "kind": "chorus", "it": "Viva, viva il nostro Alcide!\nGoda il Nilo di questo dì!\nOgni spiaggia per lui ride,\nogni affanno già spari.", "en": "Long live, long live our Alcides!\nLet the Nile rejoice in this day!\nEvery shore smiles for him;\nevery sorrow has already vanished.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 1, unit gc-a1-s01-u004; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 110 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 110 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Questa è Cornelia.", "en": "This is Cornelia.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh sorte,\ndel nemico Pompeo l'alta consorte?\nCesare, a questa un tempo\nsacrai la libertade.", "en": "O fortune!\nThe noble wife of our enemy Pompey?\nCaesar, to her I once\nsurrendered my freedom.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108, 108, 108, 108 ], "notes": [ "Surrendered my freedom is conventional language of becoming a captive lover." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Signor, Roma è già tua. Teco han gli dei\noggi diviso il regno, ed è lor legge\nche del grand'orbe al pondo\nGiove regoli il ciel, Cesare il mondo.", "en": "My lord, Rome is already yours. Today the gods\nhave divided rule with you, and it is their law\nthat, under the burden of the great universe,\nJove governs heaven, Caesar the world.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108, 108, 108, 108 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Da Cesare che chiedi,\ngran germe de' Scipioni, alta Cornelia?", "en": "What do you ask of Caesar,\nillustrious offspring of the Scipios, noble Cornelia?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108, 108 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Dà pace all'armi!", "en": "Bring peace to arms!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Dona l'asta al tempio,\nozio al fianco,\nozio alla destra.", "en": "Offer the spear to the temple,\nrest to your side,\nrest to your right hand.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108, 108, 108 ], "notes": [ "The side carries the sword; the right hand wields weapons." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s02-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Virtù de' grandi è il perdonar le offese.\nVenga Pompeo, Cesare abbracci, e resti\nl'ardor di Marte estinto:\nsia vincitor del vincitore il vinto.", "en": "To forgive injuries is the virtue of the great.\nLet Pompey come; let Caesar embrace him, and let\nthe ardour of Mars be extinguished:\nlet the vanquished become the conqueror of the conqueror.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 2, unit gc-a1-s02-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 108 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 108, 108, 108, 108 ], "notes": [ "Caesar is understood as the subject of abbracci, let him embrace; the object Pompey is supplied from context." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u001", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA TERZA", "en": "SCENE 3", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u002", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "I detti, Achilla (con stuolo di Egizii)", "en": "The preceding characters, Achillas (with a company of Egyptians)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 142 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 142 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u003", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Achilla entra con stuolo di Egizii che portano aurei bacili", "en": "Achillas enters with a company of Egyptians carrying golden basins.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 142 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 142 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "La reggia Tolomeo t'offre in albergo,\neccelso eroe, per tuo riposo, e in dono\nquanto può donare un tributario trono.", "en": "Ptolemy offers you his palace as lodging,\nexalted hero, for your rest, and as a gift\nall that a tributary throne can give.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ciò che di Tolomeo\noffre l'alma regal Cesare aggrada.", "en": "Caesar welcomes what Ptolemy's\nroyal spirit offers.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Acciò l'Italia ad adorarti impari,\nin pegno d'amistade e di sua fede\nquesta del gran Pompeo superba testa\ndi base al regal trono offre al tuo piede.", "en": "So that Italy may learn to worship you,\nas a pledge of friendship and of his loyalty,\nhe offers at your feet this proud head\nof great Pompey, as a support for your royal throne.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u006; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ahi lassa!\nConsorte! Mio tesoro!", "en": "Alas, unhappy me!\nHusband! My treasure!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Grand'ardir!", "en": "Such audacity!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tolomeo,\nBarbaro traditor! Io manco, io moro...", "en": "Ptolemy,\nbarbarous traitor! I faint, I die…", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "si sviene", "en": "She faints.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 175 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 175 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u014", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Curio, su, porgi aita\na Cornelia, che langue!", "en": "Curio, come, give help\nto Cornelia, who is fainting!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u015", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "piange", "en": "He weeps.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 180 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 180 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che scorgo? Oh stelle!\nil mio bel sole esangue!", "en": "What do I behold? O stars!\nMy lovely sun, bloodless!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [ "Lovely sun is a lover metaphor for Cornelia." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da sé", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 187 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 187 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Questa Cornelia? Oh, che beltà!\nche volto!)", "en": "(Is this Cornelia? Oh, what beauty!\nWhat a face!)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u019", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Padre, Pompeo! mia genitrice! Oh dio!", "en": "Father, Pompey! My mother! O God!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140 ], "notes": [ "Preserves the libretto mother language; historically Cornelia was Sextus stepmother." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u020", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Per dar urna sublime\nal suo cenere illustre,\nserbato sia il nobil teschio.", "en": "To provide a noble urn\nfor his illustrious ashes,\nlet the noble head be preserved.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u021", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh dei!", "en": "O gods!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u022", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ad Achilla\nE tu involati, parti! Al tuo signore\ndi che l'opre de' regi,\nsian di ben o di mal, son sempre esempio.", "en": "(To Achillas.)\nAnd you, take yourself away—go! Tell your master\nthat the deeds of kings,\nwhether good or evil, always set an example.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140, 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u023", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che non è re, chi è re fellon,\nche è un empio.", "en": "He is no king, who is a treacherous king,\nwho is a wicked man.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u024", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cesare, frena l'ire...", "en": "Caesar, restrain your anger…", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u025", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Vanne! Verrò alla reggia,\npria ch'oggi il sole a tramontar si veggia.", "en": "Go! I shall come to the palace\nbefore today's sun is seen to set.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 140, 140 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u026", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 3 - Aria", "en": "No. 3 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 216 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 3 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 216 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u027", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "aria", "it": "Empio, dirò, tu sei,\ntogliti a gli occhi miei,\nsei tutto crudeltà.\nNon è da re quel cuor,\nche donasi al rigor,\nche in sen non ha pietà.", "en": "Wicked is what I shall call you;\nremove yourself from my sight:\nyou are all cruelty.\nThat heart is not fit for a king\nwhich gives itself to harshness\nand has no pity within it.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 140 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 3 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 140, 140, 140, 140, 140, 140 ], "notes": [ "Empio, dirò, tu sei literally You are wicked, I shall say; English reorders the suspended sentence." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s03-u028", "act": 1, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte con seguito; parte Achilla con stuolo di Egizii", "en": "He leaves with his followers; Achillas leaves with the company of Egyptians.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 3, unit gc-a1-s03-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 221 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 3 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 221 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u001", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA QUARTA", "en": "SCENE 4", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u002", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Curio, Sesto, Cornelia", "en": "Curio, Sextus, Cornelia", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 225 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 225 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u003", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 227 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 227 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Già torna in se'.", "en": "She is coming to herself again.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Madre!", "en": "Mother!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cornelia!", "en": "Cornelia!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "che ritorna in se'", "en": "She comes to herself again.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 238 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 238 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh stelle!\nEd ancor vivo? Ah! tolga\nquest'omicida acciaro\nil cor, l'alma al sen.", "en": "O stars!\nAnd do I still live? Ah, let\nthis murderous steel take\nheart and soul from my breast!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223, 223, 223, 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "vuol rapire la spada dal fianco di Sesto per", "en": "She tries to seize the sword from Sextus' side in order to", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 243 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 243 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "isvenarsi, e Curio la frastorna", "en": "kill herself, and Curio prevents her.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 243 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 243 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ferma! Invan tenti\ntinger di sangue in quelle nevi il ferro.\nCurio, che ancor t'adora,\ne sposa ti desia, se pur t'aggrada,\nvendicarti saprà con la sua spada.", "en": "Stop! In vain you attempt\nto stain the steel with blood upon that snow.\nCurio, who still adores you\nand desires you as his wife, if you approve,\nwill know how to avenge you with his sword.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223, 223, 223, 223, 223 ], "notes": [ "Snow refers to the whiteness of Cornelia breast or skin." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sposa a te?", "en": "Your wife?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sì.", "en": "Yes.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u014", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ammutisci!", "en": "Be silent!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u015", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tu nemico a Pompeo, e tanto ardisci?", "en": "You, Pompey's enemy, dare so much?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cornelia, se m'aborri,\nm'involerò al tuo aspetto;\nsol per non molestarti,\ngiurerà questo cor di non amarti.", "en": "Cornelia, if you abhor me,\nI shall withdraw from your sight;\nonly so as not to trouble you,\nthis heart will swear not to love you.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223, 223, 223, 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Leaves.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 268 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 268 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Madre!", "en": "Mother!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u019", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Viscere mie!", "en": "My own flesh and blood!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223 ], "notes": [ "Viscere mie literally my entrails, an intimate expression for a beloved child." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u020", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Or che farem tra le cesaree squadre,\ntu senza il caro sposo, io senza il padre?", "en": "What shall we now do among Caesar's troops,\nyou without your dear husband, I without my father?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223, 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u021", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 4 - Aria", "en": "No. 4 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 280 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 4 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 280 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u022", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Priva son d'ogni conforto,\ne pur speme di morire\nper me misera non v'è.\nIl mio cor, da pene assorto,\nè già stanco di soffrire,\ne morir si niega a me.", "en": "I am deprived of every comfort,\nand even the hope of dying\nis denied to wretched me.\nMy heart, engulfed by anguish,\nis already weary of suffering,\nand death is denied to me.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 4 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 223, 223, 223, 223, 223, 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u023", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Leaves.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 288 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 4 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 288 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u024", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 290 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 290 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u025", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Vani sono i lamenti;\nè tempo, o Sesto, ormai\ndi vendicar il padre;\nsi svegli alla vendetta\nl'anima neghittosa,\nche offesa da un tiranno invan riposa.", "en": "Lamentations are vain;\nit is time now, Sextus,\nto avenge your father.\nLet the sluggish soul awake\nto vengeance,\nwhich, wronged by a tyrant, rests in vain.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 223, 223, 223, 223, 223, 223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u026", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Nr. 5 - Aria", "en": "No. 5 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 299 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Nr. 5 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 299 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s04-u027", "act": 1, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "aria", "it": "Svegliatevi nel core,\nfurie d'un alma offesa,\na far d'un traditor\naspra vendetta!\nL'ombra del genitore\naccorre a mia difesa,\ne dice: a te il rigor,\nFiglio si aspetta.", "en": "Awake within my heart,\nFuries of an injured soul,\nto take harsh vengeance\non a traitor!\nThe shade of my father\nrushes to my defence\nand says: “Son, severity\nis expected of you.”", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 4, unit gc-a1-s04-u027; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 316 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 316 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 319 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 319 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Regni Cleopatra; ed al mio seggio intorno\npopolo adorator arabo e siro\nsu questo crin la sacra benda adori;\nsu, che di voi, miei fidi,\nha petto e cor di sollevarmi al trono,\ngiuri su questa destra eterna fede.", "en": "Let Cleopatra reign; and around my throne\nlet worshipping peoples, Arab and Syrian,\nrevere the sacred band upon this brow.\nCome: whichever of you, my faithful followers,\nhas courage and heart to raise me to the throne,\nswear eternal loyalty upon this right hand.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315, 315, 315, 315, 315, 315 ], "notes": [ "The sacred band is the royal diadem; the listed peoples are the libretto imperial imagination." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 330 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 330 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Regina, infausti eventi!", "en": "Queen, ill-fated events!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che fia? che tardi?", "en": "What has happened? Why do you delay?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Troncar fe' Tolomeo\nil capo...", "en": "Ptolemy has had the head\ncut off…", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315, 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ohimè! di chi?", "en": "Alas! Whose?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "... del gran Pompeo.", "en": "…of great Pompey.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Stelle! costui che apporta?", "en": "Stars! What news does this man bring?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Per stabilirsi al soglio\na Cesare mandò fra' doni involto...", "en": "To establish himself upon the throne,\nhe sent Caesar, wrapped among his gifts…", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315, 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u014", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che gli mandò?", "en": "What did he send him?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u015", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "... l'esanimato volto.", "en": "…the lifeless face.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Su, partite, miei fidi,\nparte seguito", "en": "Come, depart, my faithful followers.\n(The followers leave.)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315, 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "a Nireno", "en": "To Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 358 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 358 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "E tu qui resta;\nalle cesaree tende\nson risolta portarmi, e tu , Nireno\nMi servirai da scorta.", "en": "And you, stay here.\nI am resolved to go\nto Caesar's tents, and you, Nireno,\nwill serve as my escort.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u018; 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e la corona\ndovuta alla mia fronte\ngiustamente pretendo.", "en": "I contend for what is mine, and justly claim\nthe crown that is owed\nto my brow.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315, 315, 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u024", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Vanne, e torna omai, folle,\na qual di donna è l'uso,\ndi scettro invece a trattar l'ago e il fuso!", "en": "Go, and return now, foolish woman,\nto what is a woman's occupation:\nto handle the needle and spindle instead of a sceptre!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 315, 315, 315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s05-u025", "act": 1, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Anzi tu pur, effeminato amante,\nva dell'età sui primi albori,\ndi regno invece a coltivar gli amori!", "en": "Rather you, effeminate lover,\ngo in the first dawn of your years\nand cultivate love instead of a kingdom!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 5, unit gc-a1-s05-u025; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "T'accusò d'inesperto e troppo ardito.", "en": "He accused you of being inexperienced and too bold.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tant'osa un vil Romano?", "en": "Does a base Roman dare so much?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Il mio consiglio\napprendi, oh Tolomeo!\nVerrà Cesare in corte; e in tua vendetta\ncada costui, come cadde Pompeo.", "en": "Learn my counsel,\nPtolemy!\nCaesar will come to court; and in vengeance for you\nlet him fall as Pompey fell.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399, 399, 399, 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Chi condurrà l'impresa?", "en": "Who will carry out the enterprise?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Io ti prometto\ndarti estinto il superbo al regio piede,\nse di Pompeo la moglie\nin premio a me il tuo voler concede.", "en": "I promise you\nto lay the proud man dead at your royal feet,\nif your will grants me\nPompey's wife as my reward.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u013; 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E col bel volto impiaga.", "en": "She binds with her hair, and wounds with her lovely face.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Amico, il tuo consiglio è la mia stella;\nvanne, pensa e poi torna.", "en": "Friend, your counsel is my guiding star;\ngo, consider it, then return.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 399 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 399, 399 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte Achilla", "en": "Achillas leaves.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 445 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 445 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s06-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 6, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Muora Cesare, muora, e il capo altero\nsia del mio piè sostegno.\nRoma, oppressa da lui, libera vada,\ne fermezza al mio regno\nsia la morte di lui più che la spada.", "en": "Let Caesar die, die, and let his proud head\nbe the support of my foot.\nLet Rome, oppressed by him, go free,\nand let his death give my kingdom\nmore stability than the sword.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 6, unit gc-a1-s06-u018; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 467 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 8 - Recitativo accompagnato", "source_rows": [ 467 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Alma del gran Pompeo,\nche al cenere suo d'intorno\ninvisibil t'aggiri,\nfur'ombre i tuoi trofei,\nombra la tua grandezza, e un'ombra sei.\nCosì termina al fine il fasto umano.\nIeri che vivo occupò un mondo in guerra,\noggi risolto in polve un'urna serra.\nTal di ciascuno, ahi lasso!\nil principio è di terra, e il fine è un sasso,\nMisera vita! oh, quanto è fral tuo stato!\nTi forma un soffio, e ti distrugge un fiato.", "en": "Soul of great Pompey,\nwhich invisibly wanders\naround his ashes,\nyour trophies were shadows,\na shadow your greatness, and a shadow you are.\nThus human splendour ends at last.\nYesterday, alive, he held a world at war;\ntoday, reduced to dust, an urn encloses him.\nSuch is the fate of each—alas!—\nthe beginning is earth, and the end a stone.\nWretched life! Oh, how frail is your condition!\nA breath forms you, and a breath destroys you.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 8 - Recitativo accompagnato", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 479 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 479 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra, introduce Cleopatra e Nireno", "en": "He enters, introducing Cleopatra and Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 482 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 482 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Qui nobile donzella\nchiede chinarsi al Cesare di Roma.", "en": "Here is a noble maiden\nwho asks to bow before Rome's Caesar.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Se n' venga pur.", "en": "Let her come.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tra stuol di damigelle\nio servo a Cleopatra,\nLidia m'appello, e sotto il ciel d'Egitto\ndi nobil sangue nata;\nma Tolomeo mi toglie,\nbarbaro usurpator, la mia fortuna.", "en": "Among a company of maidens\nI serve Cleopatra.\nI am called Lydia, and beneath Egypt's sky\nI was born of noble blood;\nbut Ptolemy, that barbarous usurper,\nrobs me of my fortune.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u009; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 502 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 502 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Se Cornelia mi sprezza,\noggi a Lidia rivolto\ncollocherò quest'alma in sì bel volto).", "en": "(If Cornelia scorns me,\ntoday, turning to Lydia,\nI shall lodge this soul in so lovely a face.)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u014", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "s'inginocchia avanti Cesare e dice piangendo", "en": "She kneels before Caesar and speaks in tears.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 507 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 507 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u015", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Avanti al tuo cospetto, avanti a Roma,\nmesta, afflitta e piangente\nchieggio giustizia.", "en": "Before your presence, before Rome,\nsad, afflicted, and weeping,\nI ask for justice.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 513 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 513 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Oh dio! che innamora!)\n(leva da terra Cleopatra)\nSfortunata donzella, in breve d'ora\ndeggio portarmi in corte,\noggi colà stabilirò tua sorte.", "en": "(O God! She makes me fall in love!)\n(He raises Cleopatra from the ground.)\nUnfortunate maiden, in a short while\nI must go to court;\nthere today I shall settle your fate.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 518 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 518 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u019", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Che bel crin!)", "en": "(What lovely hair!)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u020", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 522 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 522 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u021", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Che bel sen!)", "en": "(What a lovely breast!)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u022", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Signor, i tuoi favori\nlegan quest'alma.", "en": "My lord, your favours\nbind this soul.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u023", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "E la tua chioma i cori.", "en": "And your hair binds hearts.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u024", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 9 – Aria", "en": "No. 9 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 532 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 9 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 532 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u025", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "aria", "it": "Non è sì vago e bello\nil fior nel prato,\nquant'è vago e gentile\nil tuo bel volto.\nD'un fiore il pregio a quello\nsolo vien dato,\nma tutto un vago aprile\nè in te raccolto.", "en": "No flower in the meadow\nis so lovely and beautiful\nas your lovely face\nis beautiful and gracious.\nThe worth of a flower\nis given to that flower alone,\nbut a whole lovely April\nis gathered in you.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u025; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u029", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cerchi pur Tolomeo con empietà\ndi cor le vie del trono,\nche a me d'avito regno\nfarà il Nume d'amor benigno dono.", "en": "Let Ptolemy seek the paths to the throne\nwith a wicked heart:\nthe god of love will graciously give me\nmy ancestral kingdom.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u029; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u030", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 10 - Aria", "en": "No. 10 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u030; HTML ancestor starts at line 553 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 10 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 553 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u031", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Tutto può donna vezzosa,\nse amorosa\nscioglie il labbro, o gira il guardo.\nOgni colpo piaga un petto,\nse difetto\nnon v'ha quel che scocca il dardo.", "en": "A charming woman can do everything\nif, lovingly,\nshe opens her lips or turns her gaze.\nEvery stroke wounds a breast,\nif there is no fault\nin the one who shoots the dart.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u031; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 10 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [ "Love as weapon continues the military and erotic comparison." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u032", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "mentre Cleopatra vuol partire, vien ritenuta da Nireno", "en": "As Cleopatra is about to leave, Nireno stops her.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u032; HTML ancestor starts at line 562 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 10 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 562 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u033", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u033; HTML ancestor starts at line 564 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 564 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u034", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ferma, Cleopatra, osserva,\nqual femmina dolente\ncon grave passo e lacrimoso ciglio\nquivi si porta.", "en": "Stay, Cleopatra; observe\nwhat grieving woman\ncomes here with heavy steps\nand tearful eyes.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u034; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u035", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Al portamento, al volto\ndonna volgar non sembra;\nosserviamo in disparte\nla cagion del suo dolo.", "en": "In her bearing and face\nshe seems no common woman.\nLet us watch from aside\nthe cause of her sorrow.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u035; HTML ancestor starts at line 464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 464, 464, 464, 464 ], "notes": [ "Source dolo is read as duolo, sorrow; independently checked against Bologna 1724 transcription text lines 396–397. The base Italian is retained." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s07-u036", "act": 1, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "si ritirano", "en": "They withdraw.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 7, unit gc-a1-s07-u036; HTML ancestor starts at line 578 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 578 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u001", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA OTTAVA", "en": "SCENE 8", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u002", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cleopatra (nelle vesti di Lidia) e Nireno in disparte, Cornelia, poi Sesto", "en": "Cleopatra (in the guise of Lydia) and Nireno aside; Cornelia, then Sextus", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 581 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 581 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u003", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 11 – Aria", "en": "No. 11 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 583 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 11 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 583 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 586 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 11 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 586 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Nel tuo seno, amico sasso\nsta sepolto il mio tesoro.", "en": "In your bosom, friendly stone,\nmy treasure lies buried.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 11 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 590 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 590 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ma che! vile e negletta\nsempre starai, Cornelia?", "en": "But what? Will you always remain\nbase and neglected, Cornelia?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 597 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 597 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(E' Cornelia, costei,\nla moglie di Pompeo?)", "en": "(Is this Cornelia,\nPompey's wife?)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ah no! tra questi arnesi\nun ferro sceglierò, con mano ardita\ncontro il Tolomeo dentro la reggia...", "en": "Ah, no! Among these arms\nI shall choose a blade, and with a daring hand\nagainst Ptolemy within the palace…", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Non sì tosto Cornelia ha preso una spada fuori", "en": "No sooner has Cornelia taken a sword from", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 605 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 605 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "degli arnesi di guerra che Sesto sopraggiunge", "en": "the weapons of war than Sextus arrives.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 605 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 605 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Madre, ferma; che fai?", "en": "Mother, stop! What are you doing?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u014", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Lascia quest'armi:\nvoglio contro il tiranno\nuccisor del mio sposo,\ntentar la mia vendetta.", "en": "Leave these weapons!\nAgainst the tyrant\nwho killed my husband\nI wish to attempt my revenge.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579, 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u015", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Questa vendetta a Sesto sol si aspetta.", "en": "This vengeance belongs to Sextus alone.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "toglie la spada a Cornelia", "en": "He takes the sword from Cornelia.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 619 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 619 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh dolci accenti! oh care labbra! dunque\nsull'alba de' tuoi giorni\nhai tanto cor?", "en": "Oh, sweet words! Oh, dear lips! So,\nat the dawn of your days,\nhave you so much courage?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Son Sesto, e di Pompeo\nerede son dell'alma!", "en": "I am Sextus, and I am heir\nto Pompey's soul!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u019", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Animo, oh figlio, ardire! Io coraggiosa\nti seguirò,", "en": "Heart, my son, and daring! I shall bravely\nfollow you.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u020", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ma, oh dio! chi al re fellone\nci scorterà?", "en": "But, O God, who will escort us\nto the treacherous king?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u021", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "che sorte fuori impetuosamente", "en": "She comes forward impetuously.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 637 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 637 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u022", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cleopatra", "en": "Cleopatra—", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579 ], "notes": [ "Cleopatra nearly reveals her identity; Nireno interruption and her continuation conceal it." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u023", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "in disparte", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 641 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 641 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u024", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Non ti scoprir!", "en": "Do not reveal yourself!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u025", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "E Lidia ancor, per ché quell'empio cada,\nti saran scudo, e t'apriran la strada.", "en": "—and Lydia too, so that the wicked man may fall,\nwill be your shield and open the way for you.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u026", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "E chi ti sprona, amabile donzella,\noggi in nostro soccorso offrir te stessa?", "en": "And what urges you, lovely maiden,\nto offer yourself today to our aid?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u027", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "La fellonia d'un re tiranno, il giusto.\nSotto il nome di Lidia\nio serbo Cleopatra;\nse in virtù del tuo braccio ascende al trono,\nsarai felice, e scorgerai qual sono.", "en": "A tyrant king's treachery; justice.\nUnder the name of Lydia\nI serve Cleopatra.\nIf through the strength of your arm she ascends the throne,\nyou will be fortunate, and discover who I am.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579, 579, 579, 579, 579 ], "notes": [ "Source serbo is read as servo, I serve; independently checked against Bologna 1724 transcription, which prints io servo a Cleopatra (text line 441). Base Italian retained. The a is absent in the base witness." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u028", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Chi a noi sarà di scorta?", "en": "Who will be our escort?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 579 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 579 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u029", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "accennando a Nireno", "en": "Pointing to Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u029; HTML ancestor starts at line 660 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 660 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s08-u030", "act": 1, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Questi, che alla regina è fido servo,\nsaprà cauto condurvi all'alta impresa.", "en": "This man, who is the queen's faithful servant,\nwill know how to lead you carefully to the great enterprise.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 8, unit gc-a1-s08-u030; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751, 751 ], "notes": [ "The stage presents Cornelia as mother; ancient comparison distinguishes stepmother." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 764 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 764 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Oh che sembianze, Amore!)", "en": "(O Love, what beauty!)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ingrato, a quel Pompeo, che al tuo gran padre\nil diadema reale\nstabilì sulla chioma,\ntu recidesti il capo in faccia a Roma?", "en": "Ungrateful man! That Pompey who established\nthe royal diadem upon the head\nof your great father—\nyou cut off his head in the face of Rome?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751, 751, 751, 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Empio, ti sfido a singolar certame;\nveder farò con generosa destra\naperto a questo regno\nche non sei Tolomeo, che un indegno.", "en": "Wicked man, I challenge you to single combat!\nWith a noble right hand I shall make plain\nto this kingdom\nthat you are no Ptolemy, but an unworthy man.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751, 751, 751, 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh là! da vigil stuol sian custoditi\nquesti Romani arditi.", "en": "Guards! Let these bold Romans\nbe kept under vigilant guard.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751, 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Alto signor, condona\nil lor cieco furor!", "en": "Great lord, forgive\ntheir blind fury!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751, 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Per or mi basta\nch'abbia garzon sì folle\ndi carcere la reggia.\naccenna alla guardie\nCostei, che baldanzosa\nvilipese il rispetto\ndi maestà regnante,\nnel giardin del serraglio abbia per pena\nil coltivar i fiori.", "en": "For now it is enough for me\nthat so foolish a youth\nshould have the palace as his prison.\n(He gestures to the guards.)\nAs for this woman, who insolently\nscorned the respect\ndue to reigning majesty,\nlet her punishment be to cultivate flowers\nin the garden of the seraglio.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u013; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 800 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 800 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Quanto costui s'inganna!)", "en": "(How deceived he is!)", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 751 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 751 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s10-u019", "act": 1, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte con seguito", "en": "Leaves with followers.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 10, unit gc-a1-s10-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 803 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 803 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u001", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA UNDICESIMA", "en": "SCENE 11", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u002", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Achilla (con guardie), Cornelia, Sesto", "en": "Achillas (with guards), Cornelia, Sextus", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 806 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 806 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u003", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cornelia, in quei tuoi lumi\nsta legato il mio cor.\nSe all'amor mio\ngiri sereno il ciglio\ne i talami concedi,\nsarà la madre in libertà col figlio.", "en": "Cornelia, in those eyes of yours\nmy heart is bound.\nIf you turn a kindly gaze\nupon my love\nand grant the marriage bed,\nthe mother shall be free together with her son.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41, 41, 41, 41, 41, 41 ], "notes": [ "Talami literally marriage beds, metonymy for marriage with sexual implication. Mother/son language translates the drama; it does not establish biological parentage." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u004", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Barbaro, una Romana\nsposa ad un vil Egizio?", "en": "Barbarian! A Roman woman\nbecome the wife of a base Egyptian?", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41, 41 ], "notes": [ "Sposa is a noun with the verb understood. Vil means base/ignoble; the refusal carries social and ethnic contempt as well as condemnation of coercion." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u005", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "A te consorte?\nAh no! pria della morte....", "en": "To you as wife?\nAh, no! Before death…", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41, 41 ], "notes": [ "Pria della morte literally means before death. The frozen web witness ends with an ellipsis; the modern Bologna transcription has a full stop. The fragment is preserved without supplying an omitted action. A refusal, preference for death, or interrupted threat may be inferred from the dramatic context, but none is silently completed here." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u006", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh là: per regal legge orma si guidi\nprigionier nella reggia\ncosì audace garzon.", "en": "Guards! By royal command, let so bold a youth\nnow be led as a prisoner\ninto the palace.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41, 41, 41 ], "notes": [ "Witness orma is read as omai, now, a declared correction; Italian source retained." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u007", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Seguirò anch'io\nl'amata prole, il caro figlio mio.", "en": "I too shall follow\nmy beloved child, my dear son.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41, 41 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u008", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tu ferma il piede e pensa\ndi non trovar pietade acciò che chiedi,\nse pietade al mio amor pria non concedi.", "en": "Stay where you are, and remember\nthat you will find no pity for what you ask\nunless you first grant pity to my love.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 41, 41, 41 ], "notes": [ "Acciò che is read as a ciò che, for what, a declared word division. Repeated pietade exposes the coercive bargain." ] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u009", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 15 - Aria", "en": "No. 15 — Aria", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 833 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 15 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 833 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u010", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Tu sei il cor di questo core,\nsei il mio ben, non t'adirar!\nPer amor io chiedo amore,\npiù da te non vo' bramar.", "en": "You are the heart of this heart;\nyou are my beloved—do not be angry!\nFor love I ask for love;\nI do not wish to desire more from you.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 834 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 15 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 834, 834, 834, 834 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u011", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Leaves.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 839 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 15 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 839 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u012", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 840 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 840 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u013", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Madre!", "en": "Mother!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 41 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u014", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Mia vita!", "en": "My life!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 41 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u015", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Addio!", "en": "Farewell!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 41 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u016", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "mentre le guardie vogliono condur via Sesto,", "en": "As the guards are about to lead Sextus away,", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 851 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 851 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u017", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cornelia corre a ritenerlo per un braccio", "en": "Cornelia runs to hold him back by one arm.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 851 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 851 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u018", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Dove, dove, inumani,\nl'anima mia guidate? Empi, lasciate,\nche al mio core, al mio bene\nio porga almen gli ultimi baci. Ahi pene!", "en": "Where, where, inhuman men,\nare you leading my soul? Wicked men, allow me\nat least to give the last kisses\nto my heart, to my beloved. Alas, anguish!", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 41 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 41, 41, 41, 41 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u019", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 16 - Duetto", "en": "No. 16 — Duet", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 859 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 16 - Duetto", "source_rows": [ 859 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a1-s11-u020", "act": 1, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA e SESTO", "kind": "duet", "it": "Son nata/o a lagrimar/sospirar,\ne il dolce mio conforto,\nah, sempre piangerò.\nSe il fato ci tradì,\nsereno e lieto dì\nmai più sperar potrò.", "en": "I was born to weep / to sigh,\nand for my sweet consolation,\nah, I shall always weep.\nIf fate has betrayed us,\na clear and joyful day\nI shall never again be able to hope for.", "source_locator": "Act 1, scene 11, unit gc-a1-s11-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 860 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 16 - Duetto", "source_rows": [ 860, 860, 860, 860, 860, 860 ], "notes": [ "The witness compresses the two voices as nata/o and lagrimar/sospirar. This English retains the paired alternative in one aligned segment; it does not invent absent repeat instructions." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s00-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 0, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "ATTO SECONDO", "en": "ACT II", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 0, unit gc-a2-s00-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 865 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 865 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s00-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 0, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Deliziosa selva di cedri con il monte Parnasonel prospetto, il quale contiene in se' la reggia della Virtù.", "en": "A delightful cedar grove, with Mount Parnassus in the background; it contains within it the palace of Virtue.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 0, unit gc-a2-s00-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 866 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 866 ], "notes": [ "The web witness fuses Parnaso nel into Parnasonel; translation separates the words." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA PRIMA", "en": "SCENE 1", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 867 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 867 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cleopatra, Nireno", "en": "Cleopatra, Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 868 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 868 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 869 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 869 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Eseguisti, oh Niren, quanto t'imposi?", "en": "Have you carried out, Nireno, what I ordered you?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 870 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 870 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Adempito è il comando.", "en": "Your command has been fulfilled.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 872 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 872 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Giunto è Cesare in corte?", "en": "Has Caesar arrived at court?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 873 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 873 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Io ve'l condussi,\ned ei già a queste soglie il piè rivolge.", "en": "I brought him there,\nand he is already turning his steps towards these doors.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 874 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 874, 874 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ma dimmi: è in pronto\nla meditata scena?", "en": "But tell me: is the scene\nwe planned ready?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 876 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 876, 876 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Infra le nubi\nl'alta regina sfavilla;\nma che far pensi?", "en": "Amid the clouds\nthe lofty queen shines forth;\nbut what do you intend to do?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 878 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 878, 878, 878 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Amore\ngià suggerì all'idea\nstravagante pensier: ho già risolto,\nsotto finte apparenze\nfar prigionier d'amor ch'il cor m'ha tolto.", "en": "Love\nhas already suggested an unusual thought\nto my imagination: I have resolved,\nunder a false appearance,\nto make love’s prisoner of the man who has taken my heart.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 882 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 882, 882, 882, 882, 882 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "A lui ti scoprirai?", "en": "Will you reveal yourself to him?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 886 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 886 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Non è ancor tempo.", "en": "It is not yet time.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 888 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 888 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Io che far deggio?", "en": "What must I do?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 889 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 889 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Attendi\nCesare qui in dispare; indi lo guida\nin questi alberghi, e poi lo guida ancora\ncolà nelle mie stanze e a lui dirai,\nche per dargli contezza\ndi quanto dal suo re gli si contende,\npria che tramonti il sol Lidia l'attende.", "en": "Wait here, aside,\nfor Caesar; then guide him\ninto these rooms, and afterwards lead him\nthere, into my chambers, and tell him\nthat, to explain to him\nwhat her king denies her,\nLydia awaits him before the sun sets.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 891 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 891, 891, 891, 891, 891, 891, 891 ], "notes": [ "The speaker is still performing the identity of Lidia. The historical indirect-object gli can refer to her; the denied rights are Lidia’s ostensible grievance." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s01-u015", "act": 2, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 1, unit gc-a2-s01-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 898 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 898 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA SECONDA", "en": "SCENE 2", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 899 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 899 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Nireno, poi Cesare; Cleopatra (nelle vesti di Virtù)", "en": "Nireno, then Caesar; Cleopatra dressed as Virtue.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 901 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 901 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Da Cleopatra apprenda\nchi è seguace d'amor l'astuzie e frodi.", "en": "Let anyone who follows Love\nlearn cunning and deception from Cleopatra.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 902 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 902, 902 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 905 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 905 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Dov'è, Niren, dov'è l'anima mia?", "en": "Where, Nireno, where is my soul’s beloved?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 904 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 904 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "In questo loco in breve\nverrà Lidia, signor.", "en": "Lydia will soon come\nto this place, my lord.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 907 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 907, 907 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 17 - Sinfonia", "en": "No. 17 - Instrumental piece", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 909 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 17 - Sinfonia", "source_rows": [ 909 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Qui s'ode vaga sinfonia di vari strumenti", "en": "An attractive instrumental piece is heard, played by various instruments.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 910 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 17 - Sinfonia", "source_rows": [ 910 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 911 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 911 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Taci!", "en": "Be quiet!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 912 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 912 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che fia?", "en": "What is it?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 914 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 914 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cieli, e qual delle sfere\nscende armonico suon, che mi rapisce?", "en": "Heavens! What harmonious sound\ndescends from the celestial spheres and carries me away?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 916 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 916, 916 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Avrà di selce il cor chi non languisce.", "en": "Anyone who does not languish must have a heart of flint.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 919 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 919 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 18 - Sinfonia", "en": "No. 18 - Instrumental piece", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 920 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 18 - Sinfonia", "source_rows": [ 920 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u015", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "S'ode nuovamente una sinfonia; s'apre il Parnasso, e vedesi in trono la Virtù, assistita dalle nove Muse", "en": "Another instrumental piece is heard. Parnassus opens, and Virtue is seen enthroned, attended by the nine Muses.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 921 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 18 - Sinfonia", "source_rows": [ 921 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u016", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 922 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 922 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u017", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Giulio, che miri? e quando\ncon abisso di luce\nscesero i Numi in terra?", "en": "Julius, what do you see? And when\ndid the gods descend to earth\nin such a boundless blaze of light?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 923 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 923, 923, 923 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u018", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 19 - Aria", "en": "No. 19 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 927 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 19 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 927 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u019", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "nelle vesti di Virtù", "en": "Dressed as Virtue.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 929 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 19 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 929 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u020", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "aria", "it": "V'adoro, pupille,\nsaette d'amore,\nle vostre faville\nson grate nel sen.\nPietose vi brama\nil mesto mio core,\nch'ogn'ora vi chiama\nl'amato suo ben.", "en": "I adore you, eyes,\narrows of love;\nyour sparks\nare welcome within my breast.\nMy sorrowful heart\nyearns for your pity,\ncalling you always\nits beloved treasure.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 928 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 19 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 928, 928, 928, 928, 928, 928, 928, 928 ], "notes": [ "Pupille means the eyes; it does not mean female pupils. Cleopatra addresses Caesar’s eyes while posing as Virtue." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u021", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 938 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 938 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u022", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Non ha in cielo il Tonante\nmelodia che pareggi un sì bel canto.\nVola, mio cor, al dolce incanto...", "en": "The Thunderer in heaven has no melody\nthat equals such beautiful singing.\nFly, my heart, to this sweet enchantment…", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 939 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 939, 939, 939 ], "notes": [ "Tonante is Jupiter, the Thunderer. The Bologna transcription has a V’adoro ecc. repeat instruction after Caesar’s praise; the base web witness omits it." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u023", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Mentre Cesare corre a Cleopatra, si chiude il Parnasso, e torna la scena come prima", "en": "As Caesar runs towards Cleopatra, Parnassus closes and the scene returns to its previous appearance.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 942 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 942 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u024", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "... e come?\nAh! che del mio gioir invido è il Nume!", "en": "…but how?\nAh! The god is jealous of my joy!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 939 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 939, 939 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u025", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Signor, udisti, e che ti par di Lidia?", "en": "My lord, you have heard her: what do you think of Lydia?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 944 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 944 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u026", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Virtù cantata da Lidia possiede?\nAh! Che se già piangente\nmi saettò tra le armi, io ben m'aveggio\nche bellezza sì vaga\ncantando lega, e lagrimando impiaga.", "en": "Does Lydia possess such talent?\nAh! If, weeping, she already shot her arrows at me\namid the weapons, I now clearly see\nthat such lovely beauty\nbinds by singing and wounds by weeping.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 946 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 946, 946, 946, 946, 946 ], "notes": [ "The web witness’s Virtù cantata da Lidia possiede? is corrupt. Translation follows Virtù cotanta / Lidia possiede? in the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene II. Virtù here can mean accomplishment or talent, while recalling the staged personification of Virtue." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u027", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Signor, se amor t'accese,\nnon affligger, no, no; Lidia è cortese.\nAnzi, se non t'è grave, ella t'attende\nnelle sue stanze oror.", "en": "My lord, if love has set you aflame,\ndo not distress yourself; no, no, Lydia is kindly disposed.\nIndeed, if it does not trouble you, she awaits you\nin her chambers this very moment.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 948 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 948, 948, 948, 948 ], "notes": [ "Oror is read as or or, confirmed by the Bologna 1724 transcription." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u028", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Lidia mi brama?", "en": "Lydia longs for me?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 951 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 951 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u029", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ed ella a Cleopatra\nanche ti scorterà.", "en": "And she will also\nescort you to Cleopatra.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u029; HTML ancestor starts at line 953 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 953, 953 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u030", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Guidami tosto in seno al mio tesoro,\nacciò che dolce rendo il mio martoro.", "en": "Lead me at once into my treasure’s arms,\nso that my torment may become sweet.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u030; HTML ancestor starts at line 955 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 955, 955 ], "notes": [ "The web witness’s rendo is translated with the subjunctive sense of renda, as in the Bologna 1724 transcription." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u031", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 20 - Aria", "en": "No. 20 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u031; HTML ancestor starts at line 957 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 20 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 957 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u032", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "aria", "it": "Se in fiorito ameno prato\nl'augellin tra fiori e fronde\nsi nasconde,\nfa più grato il suo cantar.\nSe così Lidia vezzosa\nspiega ancor notti canore,\npiù graziosa\nfa ogni core innamorar.", "en": "If, in a pleasant flowery meadow,\nthe little bird hides\namong flowers and foliage,\nit makes its singing sweeter.\nIf charming Lydia likewise\npours forth melodious notes,\nmore charming still,\nshe makes every heart fall in love.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u032; HTML ancestor starts at line 958 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 20 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 958, 958, 958, 958, 958, 958, 958, 958 ], "notes": [ "Notti canore in the web witness is read as note canore, confirmed by the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene II." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u033", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cambiamento", "en": "Change of scene.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u033; HTML ancestor starts at line 965 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Cambiamento", "source_rows": [ 965 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s02-u034", "act": 2, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Giardino del serraglio, dove corrisponde quello delle fiere", "en": "The garden of the seraglio, adjoining the enclosure of wild beasts.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 2, unit gc-a2-s02-u034; HTML ancestor starts at line 965 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Cambiamento", "source_rows": [ 965 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA TERZA", "en": "SCENE 3", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 967 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 967 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cornelia, poi Achilla", "en": "Cornelia, then Achillas.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 968 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 968 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cornelia, con piccola zappa nelle mani, che vien coltivando i fiori", "en": "Cornelia, holding a small hoe, is tending the flowers.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 968 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 968 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 21 - Arioso", "en": "No. 21 - Arioso", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 970 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 970 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Deh. Piangete, oh mesti lumi,\ngià per voi non v'è più speme.", "en": "Ah, weep, sorrowful eyes;\nfor you there is no longer any hope.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 971 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 971, 971 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 973 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 973 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 975 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 975 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Bella, non lagrimare!\nCanterà il tuo destin le crude tempre.", "en": "Beautiful one, do not weep!\nYour fate will change its cruel disposition.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 974 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 974, 974 ], "notes": [ "Canterà in the web witness is read as cangerà, confirmed by the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene III." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Chi nacque a sospirar piange per sempre.", "en": "Whoever was born to sigh weeps for ever.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 977 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 977 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Un consenso amoroso,\nche tu presti ad Achilla,\npuò sottrarti al rigor di servitù.", "en": "A loving consent\nthat you grant to Achillas\ncan release you from the harshness of servitude.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 979 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 979, 979, 979 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Olà! Così non mi parlar mai più.", "en": "Enough! Never speak to me like that again.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 982 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 982 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "vuol partire", "en": "Prepares to leave.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 983 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 983 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh dio! ascolta; ove vai?", "en": "Oh God! Listen; where are you going?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 984 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 984 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s03-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Fuggo da te per non mirarti mai.", "en": "I flee from you, so that I need never look at you again.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 3, unit gc-a2-s03-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 986 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 986 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA QUARTA", "en": "SCENE 4", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 988 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 988 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "I detti, Tolomeo", "en": "The same characters, Ptolemy.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 990 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 990 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "mentre Cornelia fugge, incontra Tolomeo, che la prende per la mano", "en": "As Cornelia flees, she encounters Ptolemy, who takes her by the hand.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 990 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 990 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 992 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 992 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Bella, placa lo sdegno!", "en": "Beautiful one, calm your anger!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 993 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 993 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Lasciami, iniquo re!", "en": "Let me go, wicked king!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 995 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 995 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sire, qua mi portai,\nper ammollir questa cruedel, che adoro.", "en": "Sire, I came here\nto soften this cruel woman whom I adore.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 997 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 997, 997 ], "notes": [ "Cruedel is treated as a spelling defect for crudel." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Fu pietosa a' tuoi detti?", "en": "Did she show pity at your words?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1000 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1000 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ella mi sprezza ognor, ed io mi moro.", "en": "She always spurns me, and I am dying.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1002 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1002 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1005 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1005 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Respiro, oh ciel!) Bella, lo sdegno\nammorza!", "en": "(I can breathe again, heavens!) Beautiful one,\nquench your anger!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1004 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1004, 1004 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "tira da parte Achilla", "en": "Draws Achillas aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1008 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1008 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Amico, e ben?", "en": "Well, my friend?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1004 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1004 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Signor, oggi vedrai\nCesare estinto al suolo,\nre vendicato, e regnator tu solo.", "en": "My lord, today you will see\nCaesar dead upon the ground,\nyou avenged as king, and yourself sole ruler.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u014; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 1014 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1014 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u018", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 22 - Aria", "en": "No. 22 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 1019 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 22 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1019 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u019", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "a Cornelia", "en": "To Cornelia.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 1021 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 22 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1021 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u020", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Se a me non sei crudele,\nognor sarà fedele\na te questo cor.\nMa se spietata sempre\nver me non cangi tempre,\naspetta sol rigor!", "en": "If you are not cruel to me,\nthis heart will always\nbe faithful to you.\nBut if, ever pitiless,\nyou do not change your disposition towards me,\nexpect only severity!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 1020 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 22 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1020, 1020, 1020, 1020, 1020, 1020 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u021", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 1027 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 22 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1027 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u022", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 1028 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1028 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u023", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Bella, cotanto aborri\nchi ti prega d'amar?", "en": "Beautiful one, do you so deeply abhor\nthe man who begs you to love him?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 1029 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1029, 1029 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u024", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Un traditore\ndegno non è d'amor.", "en": "A traitor\ndoes not deserve love.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 1032 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1032, 1032 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u025", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tanto rigore?\nMa se un re ti bramasse?", "en": "Such severity?\nBut if a king desired you?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 1034 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1034, 1034 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u026", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sarei una furia in agitargli il core.", "en": "I would become a Fury to torment his heart.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 1037 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1037 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u027", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Possibil che in quel volto\nnon alberghi pietà? che in questo seno...", "en": "Can it be that no pity\ndwells in that face? That in this breast…", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 1039 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1039, 1039 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u028", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "stende la destra al seno di Cornelia, che sdegnosa si ritira", "en": "He reaches his right hand towards Cornelia’s breast; she draws back indignantly.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 1042 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1042 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u029", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Freni l'anima insana\nlo stimolo del senso:\npensa che son Cornelia, e son Romana.", "en": "Let your crazed soul restrain\nthe goad of lust:\nremember that I am Cornelia, and I am Roman.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u029; HTML ancestor starts at line 1043 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1043, 1043, 1043 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u030", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u030; HTML ancestor starts at line 1047 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1047 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u031", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tanto ritrosa a un re? perfida donna!\nForza userò, se non han luogo i prieghi,\ne involarti saprò ciò ch'or mi nieghi.", "en": "So unwilling towards a king? Faithless woman!\nI shall use force if entreaties find no place,\nand I shall know how to steal what you now deny me.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u031; HTML ancestor starts at line 1048 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1048, 1048, 1048 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u032", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 23 - Aria", "en": "No. 23 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u032; HTML ancestor starts at line 1050 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 23 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1050 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u033", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "aria", "it": "Sì, spietata, il tuo rigore\nsveglia l'odio in questo sen,\nGiacché sprezzo questo core,\nprova, infida, il mio velen!", "en": "Yes, pitiless woman, your severity\nawakens hatred in this breast.\nSince you spurn this heart,\ntaste my poison, faithless one!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u033; HTML ancestor starts at line 1051 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 23 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1051, 1051, 1051, 1051 ], "notes": [ "Giacché sprezzo in the web witness is read as Giacché sprezzi, confirmed by the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene IV." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s04-u034", "act": 2, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 4, unit gc-a2-s04-u034; HTML ancestor starts at line 1054 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 23 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1054 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA QUINTA", "en": "SCENE 5", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1055 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1055 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cornelia, poi Sesto", "en": "Cornelia, then Sextus.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1057 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1057 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1058 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1058 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "che rientra", "en": "Re-enters.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1060 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1060 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Su, che si tarda? or che partì il lascivo,\nun generoso ardir l'onor mi salvi;\ntra le fauci de' mostri\nmi scaglierò da queste eccelse mura,\ncibo sarò di fiere;\nnon paventa il morir un'alma forte.\nAddio Roma, addio Sesto! Io corro a morte.", "en": "Come, why delay? Now that the lustful man has gone,\nlet a noble boldness save my honour;\nfrom these lofty walls I shall throw myself\ninto the jaws of the monsters;\nI shall become food for wild beasts.\nA brave soul does not fear death.\nFarewell, Rome; farewell, Sextus! I hasten to death.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1059 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1059, 1059, 1059, 1059, 1059, 1059, 1059 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1067 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1067 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ferma! che fai?", "en": "Stop! What are you doing?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1066 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1066 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Chi mi trattiene il passo?", "en": "Who holds back my steps?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1069 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1069 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Madre!", "en": "Mother!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1071 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1071 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Madre? che veggio?\nFiglio, Sesto, mio core!\nCome qui ne venisti!", "en": "Mother? What do I see?\nMy son, Sextus, my heart!\nHow did you come here?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1073 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1073, 1073, 1073 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Io, per sottrarti al regnato lascivo\ndi Niren con la scorta\nquivi occulto  mi trassi.", "en": "To rescue you from the lustful ruler,\nI came here secretly,\nguided by Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1077 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1077, 1077, 1077 ], "notes": [ "Regnato in the web witness is read as regnator, confirmed by the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene V." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Troppo è certo il periglio\nin cui, figlio, t'esponi.", "en": "The danger to which you expose yourself,\nmy son, is all too certain.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1080 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1080, 1080 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s05-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 5, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Chi alla vendetta aspira\nvita non cura, oh madre.\nSì cadrà Sesto, o cadrà il tiranno.", "en": "Anyone who seeks vengeance\ndoes not care for life, mother.\nYes, either Sextus will fall, or the tyrant will fall.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 5, unit gc-a2-s05-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1082 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1082, 1082, 1082 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA SESTA", "en": "SCENE 6", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1085 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1085 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "I detti, Nireno", "en": "The same characters, Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1087 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1087 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1088 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1088 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1090 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1090 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cornelia, infauste nove. Il re m'impone,\nche tra le sue dilette io ti conduca.", "en": "Cornelia, unhappy news. The king commands me\nto lead you among his favourites.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1089 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1089, 1089 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh dio!", "en": "Oh God!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1093 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1093 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Numi, che sento?", "en": "Gods, what do I hear?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1095 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1095 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Non vi turbate, no: unqua sospetto\na Tolomeo non fui; ambi verrete\nlà dove il re tiranno\nè in preda alle lascivie;\ncolà Sesto nascoso\nin suo potere avrà l'alta vendetta;\negli solo ed inerme\nfar non potrà difesa.", "en": "Do not be troubled, no. I have never\nbeen suspected by Ptolemy. You shall both go\nwhere the tyrant king\nis given over to his lusts.\nThere Sextus, hidden,\nwill have his great vengeance within his power;\nthe king, alone and unarmed,\nwill be unable to defend himself.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1097 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1097, 1097, 1097, 1097, 1097, 1097, 1097, 1097 ], "notes": [ "Egli in the final clause refers to Ptolemy, not to Sextus." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Molto, molto ti devo.", "en": "I owe you so very much.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1101 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1101 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s06-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 6, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Assista il cielo una sì giusta impresa!", "en": "May heaven assist so just an undertaking!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 6, unit gc-a2-s06-u010; 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Translation follows dee fare amante / un regio cor in the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene VII." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "finge di dormire", "en": "Pretends to sleep.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1150 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No 26 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 1150 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1151 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1151 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra", "en": "Enters.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1153 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1153 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che veggio, oh Numi? il mio bel sol qui dorme?\nVaga Lidia, adorata,\nah! se di tanto incendio\nche mi bolle nel seno,\nti penetrasse al cor qualche scintilla,\nben potresti sperar dalla tua sorte\nd'essermi forse un dì sposa e consorte.", "en": "What do I see, gods? My beautiful sun sleeps here?\nLovely, adored Lydia,\nah! If some spark of the great fire\nthat boils within my breast\nwere to enter your heart,\nyou might well hope that your destiny\ncould make you my wife and consort one day.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1152 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1152, 1152, 1152, 1152, 1152, 1152, 1152 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "sporgendo", "en": "Rising.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1161 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1161 ], "notes": [ "Sporgendo in the web witness is read as Sorgendo, “rising,” the stage direction in the Bologna 1724 transcription, Act II, Scene VII." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sposa? t'adorerò fino alla morte.", "en": "Your wife? I shall adore you until death.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1160 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1160 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Olà!", "en": "Enough!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 1163 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1163 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u015", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che ti conturbi?", "en": "What troubles you?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 1164 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1164 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u016", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Una donzella,\nserva di Cleopatra a tanto aspirar?", "en": "A girl,\na servant of Cleopatra, aspire to so much?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 1166 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1166, 1166 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u017", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cesare, frena l'ire!\nGiacché desta m'aborri,\nperché m'abbi ad amar, torno a dormire.", "en": "Caesar, restrain your anger!\nSince you abhor me awake,\nI return to sleep so that you may love me.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 1169 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1169, 1169, 1169 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s07-u018", "act": 2, "scene": 7, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "va per tornar al suo luogo", "en": "Moves to return to her place.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 7, unit gc-a2-s07-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 1171 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1171 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA OTTAVA", "en": "SCENE 8", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1172 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1172 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "I detti, Curio, dopo congiurati (di dentro)", "en": "The same characters, Curio; then conspirators, heard from within.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1174 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1174 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1175 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1175 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra con spada impugnata", "en": "Enters with sword in hand.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1177 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1177 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cesare, sei tradito.", "en": "Caesar, you are betrayed.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1176 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1176 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "snuda il brando", "en": "Draws his sword.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1180 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1180 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Io tradito.", "en": "I, betrayed?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1179 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1179 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che sento?", "en": "What do I hear?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1182 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1182 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Mentr'io ver le tue stanze,\nsignor', t'attendo, odo di genti e spade\nripercosso fragor, ed una voce\ngridar: «Cesare mora», ed improvviso\na te ne volo, ad arrecar l'avviso.", "en": "As I wait for you, my lord,\non my way towards your chambers, I hear the resounding clash\nof men and swords, and a voice\ncrying, “Let Caesar die!” At once\nI fly to you to bring the warning.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1184 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1184, 1184, 1184, 1184, 1184 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Così dunque in Egitto\nregna la fellonia? Bella, rimanti;\nsono infausti per noi cotesti lidi.", "en": "Does treachery, then,\nreign in Egypt? Beautiful one, stay here;\nthese shores are ill-fated for us.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1189 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1189, 1189, 1189 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Fermati, non partir, che tu m'uccidi.", "en": "Stay, do not go: you will kill me.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1192 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1192 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Lascia, Lidia!", "en": "Let me go, Lydia!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1194 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1194 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che Lidia?\nIo volerò al conflitto in tua difesa,\nsino agli stessi abissi\nscenderia Cleopatra.", "en": "What Lydia?\nI shall fly into battle to defend you;\nCleopatra would descend\neven into the depths of hell.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1196 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1196, 1196, 1196, 1196 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 1200 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1200 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u015", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(ohimè, che dissi?)", "en": "(Alas, what have I said?)", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 1196 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1196 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u016", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cleopatra?", "en": "Cleopatra?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 1202 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1202 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u017", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sì.", "en": "Yes.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 1204 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1204 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u018", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Dov'è?", "en": "Where is she?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 1205 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1205 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u019", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cesare, volgi\nin questo seno, e non altrove, il lampo\ndi quegli occhi che adoro:\nSon Cleopatra, e non più Lidia in cambio.", "en": "Caesar, turn the brightness\nof those eyes I adore\nupon this breast, and nowhere else:\nI am Cleopatra, no longer Lydia in her place.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 1206 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1206, 1206, 1206, 1206 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u020", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sei Cleopatra?", "en": "You are Cleopatra?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 1210 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1210 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u021", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "In breve\nde' congiurati il temerario ardire\nquesto aspetto regal farà che cada;\ntorna al fianco, signor, quella tua spada!", "en": "Very soon\nthis royal presence will bring down\nthe conspirators’ reckless audacity.\nReturn that sword to your side, my lord!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 1212 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1212, 1212, 1212, 1212 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u022", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 1216 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1216 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u023", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Curio, a sì strani eventi\nresto immobile sasso.", "en": "Curio, at such strange events\nI stand like a motionless stone.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 1217 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1217, 1217 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u024", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CURIO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Stupido son.", "en": "I am dumbfounded.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 1219 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1219 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u025", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che udisti mai, cor mio?\nLidia è Cleopatra? e la spregiasti? Oh dio!", "en": "What have you heard, my heart?\nLydia is Cleopatra? And you spurned her? Oh God!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 1221 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1221, 1221 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u026", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "che frettolosa ritorna", "en": "Returns hurriedly.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 1224 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1224 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u027", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Fuggi, Cesare, fuggi!\nDalle regie tue stanze a questa fonte\nvolano i congiurati.", "en": "Flee, Caesar, flee!\nFrom your royal chambers the conspirators\nare rushing to this fountain.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 1223 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1223, 1223, 1223 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u028", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Come! nemmen Cleopatra\nvalse a frenar sì perfido ardimento?", "en": "What! Could not even Cleopatra\nrestrain such treacherous audacity?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 1228 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1228, 1228 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u029", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "La porpora reale\nscudo non è bastante al tradimento.", "en": "The royal purple\nis not a sufficient shield against betrayal.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u029; HTML ancestor starts at line 1230 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1230, 1230 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u030", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Vengano pure, ho core.\nCesar non sappe mai che sia timore.", "en": "Let them come; I have courage.\nCaesar never knew what fear is.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u030; HTML ancestor starts at line 1232 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1232, 1232 ], "notes": [ "Sappe is translated as the intended seppe, “knew.”" ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u031", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh dio! tu il mio cor mi struggi;\nsalvati, o mio bel sol! Cesare, fuggi!", "en": "Oh God! You tear my heart apart.\nSave yourself, my beautiful sun! Caesar, flee!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u031; HTML ancestor starts at line 1235 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1235, 1235 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u032", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 27 - Aria e Coro", "en": "No. 27 - Aria and chorus", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u032; HTML ancestor starts at line 1238 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 27 - Aria e Coro", "source_rows": [ 1238 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u033", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "aria", "it": "Al lampo dell'armi\nquest'alma guerriera\nvendetta farà.\nNon fia che disarmi\nla destra guerriera\nche forza le dà.", "en": "At the flash of weapons\nthis warrior soul\nwill take vengeance.\nThe warrior right hand\nthat gives this soul strength\nshall not be disarmed.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u033; HTML ancestor starts at line 1239 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 27 - Aria e Coro", "source_rows": [ 1239, 1239, 1239, 1239, 1239, 1239 ], "notes": [ "The agency of disarming is implicit in Non fia che disarmi. The passive English avoids assigning a definite agent; the final relative clause makes the warrior hand the giver of strength to the soul." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u034", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte con Curio", "en": "Exits with Curio.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u034; HTML ancestor starts at line 1244 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 27 - Aria e Coro", "source_rows": [ 1244 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u035", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "di dentro", "en": "From within.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u035; HTML ancestor starts at line 1246 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 27 - Aria e Coro", "source_rows": [ 1246 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u036", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CHORUS", "kind": "chorus", "it": "Mora Cesare, mora!", "en": "Let Caesar die, let him die!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u036; HTML ancestor starts at line 1245 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 27 - Aria e Coro", "source_rows": [ 1245 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u037", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 28 – Recitativo accompagnato", "en": "No. 28 – Accompanied recitative", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u037; HTML ancestor starts at line 1248 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 28 – Recitativo accompagnato", "source_rows": [ 1248 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u038", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "sola", "en": "Alone.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u038; HTML ancestor starts at line 1250 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 28 – Recitativo accompagnato", "source_rows": [ 1250 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u039", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che sento? Oh dio! Morrà Cleopatra ancora.\nAnima vil, che parli mai? Deh taci!\nAvrò, per vendicarmi,\nin bellicosa parte,\ndi Bellona in sembianza un cor di Marte.\nIntanto, oh Numi, voi che il ciel reggete,\ndifendete il mio bene!\nCh'egli è del seno mio conforto e speme.", "en": "What do I hear? Oh God! Cleopatra too will die.\nCowardly soul, what are you saying? Ah, be silent!\nTo avenge myself I shall have,\non the field of war,\na heart of Mars in the likeness of Bellona.\nMeanwhile, gods who govern heaven,\ndefend my beloved!\nFor he is the comfort and hope of my breast.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u039; HTML ancestor starts at line 1249 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 28 – Recitativo accompagnato", "source_rows": [ 1249, 1249, 1249, 1249, 1249, 1249, 1249, 1249 ], "notes": [ "Bellona is a Roman war goddess; Mars is the god of war. The line stages Cleopatra’s shift from erotic enchantment to martial resolve." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u040", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 29 - Aria", "en": "No. 29 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u040; HTML ancestor starts at line 1257 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 29 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1257 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u041", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Se pità di me non senti,\ngiusto ciel, io morirò.\nTu da pace a' miei tormenti,\no quest'alma spirerò.", "en": "If you feel no pity for me,\njust heaven, I shall die.\nBring peace to my torments,\nor I shall breathe out my soul.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u041; HTML ancestor starts at line 1258 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 29 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1258, 1258, 1258, 1258 ], "notes": [ "Pità is read as pietà, as in the Bologna 1724 transcription." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u042", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cambiamento", "en": "Change of scene.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u042; HTML ancestor starts at line 1261 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Cambiamento", "source_rows": [ 1261 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s08-u043", "act": 2, "scene": 8, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Camera nel serraglio", "en": "A chamber in the seraglio.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 8, unit gc-a2-s08-u043; HTML ancestor starts at line 1262 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Cambiamento", "source_rows": [ 1262 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA NONA", "en": "SCENE 9", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1263 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1263 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Tolomeo circondato dalle sue favorite,", "en": "Ptolemy surrounded by his favourites;", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1264 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1264 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cornelia fra loro, poi Sesto", "en": "Cornelia among them; then Sextus.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1264 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1264 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "en": "No. 30 - Arioso and recitative", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1266 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1266 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "arioso", "it": "Belle dee di questo core,\nvoi portate il ciel nel volto,\nnon ha il ciel più bel splendore\ndi quel ch'avete in doppie stelle accolto.\nQuesto è luogo di pace,\nonde il ferro depongo,", "en": "Beautiful goddesses of this heart,\nyou carry heaven in your faces.\nHeaven has no finer splendour\nthan you hold within your twin stars.\nThis is a place of peace,\nso I put down my sword,", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1267 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1267, 1267, 1267, 1267, 1267, 1267 ], "notes": [ "The twin stars are the women’s eyes." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "pone la spada sopra una tavola", "en": "Places his sword on a table.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1272 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1272 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "arioso", "it": "che inutile ornamento\nora è questo in amor fiero stromento.", "en": "for this fierce instrument\nis now a useless adornment in love.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1267 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1267, 1267 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1275 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1275 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "arioso", "it": "(Numi! che fia di me?)", "en": "(Gods! What will become of me?)", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1274 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1274 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "arioso", "it": "Ma qui Cornelia?\nQuesto candido lin tu prendi in segno,\nsecondo il mio costume,\ndi colei che destino\nal regio letto, alle notturne piume.", "en": "But Cornelia is here?\nTake this white cloth as the sign,\naccording to my custom,\nof the woman I choose\nfor the royal bed, for the nightly pillows.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1277 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1277, 1277, 1277, 1277, 1277 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cornelia prende il fazzoletto, e poi lo getta con sdegno", "en": "Cornelia takes the handkerchief, then throws it away indignantly.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1283 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1283 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "entra, da se'", "en": "Enters; aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1285 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1285 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s09-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 9, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "arioso", "it": "(Ora è il tempo, oh mia destra!\nil proprio ferro\nche uccise il genitore, l'empio trafigga).", "en": "(Now is the time, my right hand!\nLet the very sword\nthat killed my father pierce the wicked man.)", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 9, unit gc-a2-s09-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1284 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 30 - Arioso e Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1284, 1284, 1284 ], "notes": [ "Sextus’s claim that Ptolemy’s own sword killed Pompey is part of the drama’s assignment of responsibility; it is not a historical finding." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA DECIMA", "en": "SCENE 10", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1289 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1289 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "I detti, Achilla", "en": "The same characters, Achillas.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1291 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1291 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "mentre Sesto vuol  prendere la spada di Tolomeo, vien sorpreso da Achilla, che entra in furia e la prende", "en": "As Sextus is about to take Ptolemy’s sword, Achillas surprises him, rushing in and taking it.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1291 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1291 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1292 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1292 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sire, prendi!", "en": "Sire, take it!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1293 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1293 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Che fia?", "en": "What is it?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1295 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1295 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1298 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1298 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Stelle crudeli!", "en": "Cruel stars!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1297 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1297 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Arma la man che non è tempo, o Sire,\ndi star fra vezzi in amorosa parte;\nqueste Veneri lascia, e vola a Marte!", "en": "Arm your hand, Sire; it is no time\nto stay amid caresses in love’s domain.\nLeave these Venuses and fly to Mars!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1300 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1300, 1300, 1300 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Qual nemica la fortuna...", "en": "What hostile fortune…", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1303 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1303 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Mentre io cerco di Cesare la strage,\ns'avventa egli fra i nostri,\nma il numero di molti\nalla virtù d'un solo al fin prevale;\nfugge con Curio, e da balcon sublime\nsi scaglia d'improvviso in mezzo al porto,\ned io miro in un punto Curio sommerso,\ne Cesare già morto.", "en": "While I seek Caesar’s slaughter,\nhe hurls himself among our men;\nbut at last the numbers of many\nprevail over the valour of one.\nHe flees with Curio, and from a lofty balcony\nsuddenly throws himself into the harbour;\nin a single moment I see Curio submerged\nand Caesar already dead.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1305 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1305, 1305, 1305, 1305, 1305, 1305, 1305, 1305 ], "notes": [ "Achillas reports Caesar as dead; the audience later learns this report is false. Translate the report without treating it as the drama’s final fact." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1313 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1313 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u013", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cesare morto?", "en": "Caesar dead?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1312 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1312 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u014", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 1316 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1316 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u015", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh Numi!", "en": "Oh gods!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 1315 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1315 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u016", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Or Cleopatra\nvola al campo romano,\ne delle trombe ai bellicosi carmi,\ndi Cesare in vedetta, corre co' suoi\ncontro il tuo campo all'armi.", "en": "Now Cleopatra\nflies to the Roman camp,\nand, to the trumpets’ warlike strains,\nin vengeance for Caesar, rushes with her men\nto arms against your camp.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 1318 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1318, 1318, 1318, 1318, 1318 ], "notes": [ "Vedetta in the web witness is read as vendetta, the word in the Bologna 1724 transcription." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u017", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "D'una femmina imbelle\nnon pavento i furori.", "en": "I do not fear\nthe fury of an unwarlike woman.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 1324 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1324, 1324 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u018", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "A te sol resta\nche in premio di tant'opra\nin isposa costei tu mi conceda.", "en": "All that remains for you\nis to grant me this woman as my wife\nas a reward for so great a deed.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u018; HTML ancestor starts at line 1327 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1327, 1327, 1327 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u019", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Temerario! Beltà che non ha pari\nd'un tradimento in guiderdon pretendi?", "en": "Presumptuous man! You demand\na beauty without equal as the reward for a betrayal?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u019; HTML ancestor starts at line 1331 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1331, 1331 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u020", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Sire...", "en": "Sire…", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u020; HTML ancestor starts at line 1333 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1333 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u021", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ammutisci e parti!\nSon re, e saprò premiarti.", "en": "Be silent and go!\nI am king, and I shall know how to reward you.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 1335 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1335, 1335 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u022", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Il mio servir questa mercé riceve?", "en": "Does my service receive this recompense?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 1337 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1337 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u023", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Olà!", "en": "Enough!", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 1338 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1338 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u024", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 1340 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1340 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u025", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "A chi fede non ha, fe' non si deve.", "en": "No faith is owed to one who has no faith.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 1339 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1339 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u026", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 1342 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1342 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u027", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ciascuna si ritiri;\ndopo breve soggiorno\nvittorioso fra voi farò ritorno.", "en": "Let each of you retire;\nafter a brief absence\nI shall return to you victorious.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 1343 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1343, 1343, 1343 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s10-u028", "act": 2, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte con le favorite", "en": "Exits with the favourites.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 10, unit gc-a2-s10-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 1346 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1346 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u001", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA UNDICESIMA", "en": "SCENE 11", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1347 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1347 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u002", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Sesto, Cornelia", "en": "Sextus, Cornelia.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1349 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1349 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u003", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Ecco in tutto perduta\nla speme di vendetta!\nFerro, inerme ti vedo;\nio per non più soffrir morte a te chiedo.", "en": "Now the hope of vengeance\nis utterly lost!\nSword, I see you powerless;\nI ask you for death, so that I may suffer no longer.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1350 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1350, 1350, 1350, 1350 ], "notes": [ "Inerme, “unarmed,” is addressed paradoxically to the sword; “powerless” renders its inability to accomplish revenge." ] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u004", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "tira la spada per uccidersi", "en": "Draws his sword to kill himself.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1354 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1354 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u005", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Fermo? che fai? se perverso il destino\nfè vano il colpo, invan disperi, oh Sesto.", "en": "Stop! What are you doing? If perverse destiny\nmade the stroke futile, you despair in vain, Sextus.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1355 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1355, 1355 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u006", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Or che Cesare è estinto\nche più sperar possiamo?", "en": "Now that Caesar is dead,\nwhat more can we hope for?", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1357 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1357, 1357 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u007", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Animo, ardire!\nNiren già t'apre il passo; al campo vanni;\ncolà tu rivedrai l'empio tiranno,\ne a lui fa poi mirar con alma forte,\nche incontrar sai, non paventar la morte.", "en": "Courage, boldness!\nNireno already opens your way. Go to the camp;\nthere you will see the wicked tyrant again,\nand then show him, with a brave soul,\nthat you know how to meet death, not fear it.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1358 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1358, 1358, 1358, 1358, 1358 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u008", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "Exits.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1362 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1362 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u009", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "solo", "en": "Alone.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1364 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1364 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u010", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Seguirò tanto con ignoto passo\nogn'orma del tiranno,\nfinché  nel suo periglio\nfarò che cada esangue\ndel padre l'uccisor per man del figlio.", "en": "I shall follow the tyrant’s every track\nwith unnoticed steps\nuntil, in his hour of danger,\nI make my father’s killer fall lifeless\nby the son’s hand.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1363 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1363, 1363, 1363, 1363, 1363 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u011", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 31 - Aria", "en": "No. 31 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1368 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 31 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1368 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a2-s11-u012", "act": 2, "scene": 11, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "aria", "it": "L'aure che spira\ntiranno e fiero\negli non merta\ndi respirar.\nMi sveglia all'ira\nquel cor severo,\nsua morte solo\nmi può placar.", "en": "The air he breathes,\ntyrannical and savage,\nhe does not deserve\nto breathe.\nThat cruel heart\nawakens me to anger;\nonly his death\ncan appease me.", "source_locator": "Act 2, scene 11, unit gc-a2-s11-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1369 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 31 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1369, 1369, 1369, 1369, 1369, 1369, 1369, 1369 ], "notes": [ "L’aure in the web witness is read as singular L’aura, as in the Bologna 1724 transcription. The adjectives describe the tyrant, not the air." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s00-u001", "act": 3, "scene": 0, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "ATTO TERZO", "en": "ACT THREE", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 0, unit gc-a3-s00-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1380 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1380 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s00-u002", "act": 3, "scene": 0, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Bosco vicino alla città di Alessandria", "en": "A grove near the city of Alexandria.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 0, unit gc-a3-s00-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1381 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1381 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s00-u003", "act": 3, "scene": 0, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "(con una parte del porto a margine)", "en": "(With part of the harbour at the edge.)", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 0, unit gc-a3-s00-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1381 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1381 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u001", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA PRIMA", "en": "SCENE ONE", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1383 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1383 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u002", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Achilla con seguito di soldati", "en": "Achillas with a retinue of soldiers.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1384 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1384 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u003", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1385 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1385 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u004", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "In tal' modi si premia\nil mio lungo servir, la fede mia?\nBarbaro re! ti pentirai fra breve\nd'avermi offeso. Andiamo,\nprodi campioni, e a Cleopatra avanti\noffriam le nostre insegne, offriamle il core,\ne sia menda al tarda l'alto valore.", "en": "Is this how my long service\nand my loyalty are rewarded?\nBarbarous king! Before long you will regret\nhaving offended me. Come,\nbrave champions: let us offer Cleopatra\nour standards, let us offer her our hearts,\nand let great courage make amends for our delay.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1386 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1386, 1386, 1386, 1386, 1386, 1386, 1386 ], "notes": [ "The witness's 'In tal’ modi' and 'menda al tarda' are defective forms. Translation follows 'In tal modo' and 'menda al tardar', supported by the 1724 transcription; the displayed Italian is unchanged." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u005", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 32 - Aria", "en": "No. 32 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1394 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 32 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1394 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u006", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Dal fulgor di questa spada\nvo' che cada\numiliato un empio cor.\nGià non dee soffrir l'offese\nche difese\nil suo regno col valor.", "en": "By the flash of this sword\nI want an impious heart\nto fall humbled.\nHe who defended\nhis kingdom with courage\nmust not endure insults.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1395 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 32 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1395, 1395, 1395, 1395, 1395, 1395 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s01-u007", "act": 3, "scene": 1, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "He exits.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 1, unit gc-a3-s01-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1401 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 32 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1401 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u001", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA SECONDA", "en": "SCENE TWO", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1402 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1402 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u002", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Tolomeo, Cleopatra, soldati di Cleopatra, soldati e guardie di Tolomeo", "en": "Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Cleopatra's soldiers, and Ptolemy's soldiers and guards.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1404 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1404 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u003", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 33 – Sinfonia", "en": "No. 33 – Sinfonia", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1405 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 33 – Sinfonia", "source_rows": [ 1405 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u004", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Al suono d'una bellica sinfonia segue la battaglia tra soldati di Cleopatra e di Tolomeo, e questi ultimi hanno la vittoria; finita la sinfonia, entra Tolomeo con Cleopatra prigioniera", "en": "To the sound of a warlike sinfonia, a battle takes place between Cleopatra's and Ptolemy's soldiers; the latter are victorious. When the sinfonia ends, Ptolemy enters with Cleopatra as his prisoner.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1406 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 33 – Sinfonia", "source_rows": [ 1406 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u005", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1407 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1407 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u006", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Vinta cadesti al balenar di questo\nmio fulmine reale.", "en": "You fell defeated at the flash\nof this royal thunderbolt of mine.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1408 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1408, 1408 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u007", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tolomeo non mi vinse;\nmi tradì quella cieca,\nche, tiran, ti protegge,\nsenz'onor, senza fede, e senza legge.", "en": "Ptolemy did not defeat me;\nthat blind power betrayed me,\nwhich protects you, tyrant,\nwithout honour, without faith, and without law.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1411 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1411, 1411, 1411, 1411 ], "notes": [ "The unnamed blind power is understood as Fortune; the Italian itself says only 'quella cieca'." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u008", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Olà! sì baldanzosa\ndel vincitor al riverito  aspetto?", "en": "What! So insolent\nin the revered presence of your conqueror?", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1415 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1415, 1415 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u009", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "alle guardie", "en": "To the guards.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1416 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1416 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u010", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "S'incateni costei.", "en": "Put this woman in chains.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1415 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1415 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u011", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Una guardia incatena Cleopatra", "en": "A guard puts Cleopatra in chains.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1418 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1418 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u012", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Empio crudel! ti puniranno gli dèi.", "en": "Cruel, impious man! The gods will punish you.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1419 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1419 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u013", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Costei, che per germano aborro e sdegno,\nsi conduca alla reggia; io colà voglio\nche, ad onta del suo ardire,\ngenuflessa m'adori a piè del soglio.", "en": "Let this woman, whom I as her brother abhor and despise,\nbe taken to the palace. There I intend,\ndespite her defiance,\nthat she kneel and worship me at the foot of the throne.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1420 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1420, 1420, 1420, 1420 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u014", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 34 - Aria", "en": "No. 34 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 1423 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 34 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1423 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u015", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "aria", "it": "Domerò la tua fierezza\nch'il mio trono aborre e sprezza,\ne umiliata ti vedrò.\nTu qual Icaro ribelle\nsormontar brami le stelle,\nma quell'ali io ti tarperò.", "en": "I will tame your pride,\nwhich abhors and scorns my throne,\nand I shall see you humbled.\nLike rebellious Icarus,\nyou long to rise above the stars,\nbut I will clip those wings of yours.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 1424 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 34 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1424, 1424, 1424, 1424, 1424, 1424 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s02-u016", "act": 3, "scene": 2, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte con i soldati", "en": "He exits with the soldiers.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 2, unit gc-a3-s02-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 1428 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 34 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1428 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u001", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA TERZA", "en": "SCENE THREE", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1429 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1429 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u002", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cleopatra, con guardie.", "en": "Cleopatra with guards.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1431 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1431 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u003", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1432 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1432 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u004", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "E pur così in un giorno\nperdo fasti e grandezze? Ahi fato rio!\nCesare, il mio bel nume, è forse estinto;\nCornelia e Sesto inermi son, né sanno\ndarmi soccorso. O dio!\nNon resta alcuna speme al viver mio.", "en": "And so, in a single day,\ndo I lose my splendour and greatness? Ah, cruel fate!\nCaesar, my beautiful god, is perhaps dead;\nCornelia and Sextus are unarmed and cannot\ncome to my aid. O heavens!\nNo hope remains for my life.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1433 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1433, 1433, 1433, 1433, 1433, 1433 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u005", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 35 – Aria", "en": "No. 35 – Aria", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1437 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 35 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 1437 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u006", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "aria", "it": "Piangerò la sorte mia,\nsì crudele e tanto ria,\nfinché vita in petto avrò.\nMa poi morta d'ogn'intorno\nil tiranno  e notte  e giorno\nfatta spettro agiterò.", "en": "I will weep for my fate,\nso cruel and so wicked,\nas long as I have life within my breast.\nBut when I am dead, all around him,\nby night and by day,\nI will become a ghost and torment the tyrant.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1438 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 35 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 1438, 1438, 1438, 1438, 1438, 1438 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s03-u007", "act": 3, "scene": 3, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte con le guardie", "en": "She exits with the guards.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 3, unit gc-a3-s03-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1440 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 35 – Aria", "source_rows": [ 1440 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u001", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA QUARTA", "en": "SCENE FOUR", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1441 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1441 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u002", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Cesare, Achilla, poi Sesto e Nireno", "en": "Caesar, Achillas, then Sextus and Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1443 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1443 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u003", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Giulio Cesare, da una parte, poi Sesto dall'altra con Nireno, ed Achilla, steso sul margine del porto mortalmente ferito", "en": "Julius Caesar on one side; then Sextus on the other with Nireno; and Achillas, lying at the edge of the harbour, mortally wounded.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1444 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1444 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u004", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 36 – Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria", "en": "No. 36 – Accompanied recitative and aria", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1445 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 36 – Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria", "source_rows": [ 1445 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u005", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "aria", "it": "Dall'ondoso periglio\nsalvo mi porta al lido\nil mio propizio fato.\nQui la celeste Parca\nnon tronca ancor lo stame alla mia vita!\nMa dove andrò? e chi mi porge aita?\nSolo in queste erme arene\nal monarca del mondo errar conviene?\nAure, deh, per pietà\nspirate al petto mio,\nper dar conforto, oh dio!\nal mio dolor.\nDite, dov'è, che fa\nl'idol del mio sen,\nl'amato  e dolce ben\ndi questo cor.\nMa d'ogni intorno i' veggio\nsparse d'arme e d'estinti\nl'infortunate arene,\nsegno d'infausto annunzio al fin sarà.", "en": "From the danger of the waves\nmy favourable fate brings me\nsafely to the shore.\nHere the heavenly Fate\nhas not yet cut the thread of my life!\nBut where shall I go? Who will bring me help?\nMust the monarch of the world\nwander alone on these deserted sands?\nBreezes, ah, in pity,\nbreathe upon my breast\nto bring comfort, O heavens,\nto my sorrow.\nTell me: where is she, what is she doing,\nthe idol of my breast,\nthe beloved, sweet treasure\nof this heart?\nBut all around I see\nthese unhappy sands\nstrewn with weapons and the dead;\nin the end this will be a sign of unhappy news.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1446 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 36 – Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria", "source_rows": [ 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446, 1446 ], "notes": [ "The source groups accompanied recitative and aria under one musical heading; the passage includes the opening accompanied recitative, 'Aure, deh, per pietà', and the following observation. Parca refers to a Fate who cuts life's thread." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u006", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Entrano Sesto e Nireno, in veste bellica e con visiera chiusa", "en": "Sextus and Nireno enter in battle dress with their visors lowered.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1462 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 36 – Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria", "source_rows": [ 1462 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u007", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1463 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1463 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u008", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Cerco invan Tolomeo per vendicarmi,\ne il mio destino spietato a me l'asconde.", "en": "I seek Ptolemy in vain to take my revenge,\nand my pitiless destiny hides him from me.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1464 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1464, 1464 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u009", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "sul margine del porto, mortalmente ferito", "en": "At the edge of the harbour, mortally wounded.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1468 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1468 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u010", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Hai vinto, oh fato!", "en": "You have won, O fate!", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1467 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1467 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u011", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Quai tronche voci?", "en": "What broken voices are these?", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u011; HTML ancestor starts at line 1470 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1470 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u012", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Avete vinto, oh stelle!", "en": "You have won, O stars!", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1472 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1472 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u013", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1475 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1475 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u014", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Due guerrieri? in disparte\nde' loro accenti il suono\nudir io voglio, e penetrar chi sono.", "en": "Two warriors? From a distance\nI want to hear the sound of their words\nand discover who they are.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 1474 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1474, 1474, 1474 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u015", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "si ritira in disparte", "en": "He withdraws to one side.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 1479 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1479 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u016", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "a Sesto", "en": "To Sextus.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u016; HTML ancestor starts at line 1481 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1481 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u017", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "E' questi Achilla, in mezzo al sen piagato.", "en": "This is Achillas, wounded in the middle of his breast.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u017; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 1487 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1487 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u021", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Amico, amico!", "en": "My friend, my friend!", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 1486 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1486 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u022", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "a Nireno", "en": "To Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 1490 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1490 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u023", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "ACHILLA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Oh cavalier ignoto,\nche con voci d'amico\narticoli il mio nome,\ndeh, se dia mai che ti conceda il fato\ndi favellar un giorno\nalla bella Cornelia, al sol di Roma,\ndigli che quell'Achilla,\nche consigliò di Pompeo la morte....", "en": "O unknown warrior,\nwho with a friend's voice\nspeak my name,\nah, if fate should ever grant you\nto speak one day\nto beautiful Cornelia, the sun of Rome,\ntell her that Achillas,\nwho advised Pompey's death…", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u023; HTML ancestor starts at line 1489 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1489, 1489, 1489, 1489, 1489, 1489, 1489, 1489 ], "notes": [ "The witness reads 'se dia mai'; translation follows the contextually clear 'se fia mai' in the 1724 transcription." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u024", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u024; HTML ancestor starts at line 1499 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1499 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u025", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Ah, cellerato!)", "en": "(Ah, wicked man!)", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 1498 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1498 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u026", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u026; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 1507 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1507 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u030", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Ah, traditor!)", "en": "(Ah, traitor!)", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u030; HTML ancestor starts at line 1506 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1506 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u031", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u031; HTML ancestor starts at line 1510 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1510 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u032", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Fellone!)", "en": "(Traitor!)", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u032; 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The seal is a token authorising command, not a modern identification document." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u034", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "dà il sigillo a Sesto e spira", "en": "He gives the seal to Sextus and dies.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u034; HTML ancestor starts at line 1523 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1523 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u035", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Spirò l'alma il fellon.", "en": "The traitor has breathed his last.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u035; HTML ancestor starts at line 1524 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1524 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s04-u036", "act": 3, "scene": 4, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tu scaglia intanto\nil cadavere indegno\ndel traditor nell'onde.", "en": "Meanwhile throw\nthe traitor's unworthy corpse\ninto the waves.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 4, unit gc-a3-s04-u036; 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mi porterò alla reggia,\ne m'aprirò con tal sigil l'ingresso.\nTeco Niren mi siegua:\no che torrò alla sorte\nCornelia e Cleopatra, o avrò la morte.", "en": "I reached the shore by swimming through the waves.\nDo not be troubled; I will go to the palace\nand gain entrance with this seal.\nLet Niren follow me with you:\neither I will wrest Cornelia and Cleopatra from fate,\nor I will meet my death.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 5, unit gc-a3-s05-u012; HTML ancestor starts at line 1549 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1549, 1549, 1549, 1549, 1549, 1549 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s05-u013", "act": 3, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 37 - Aria", "en": "No. 37 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 5, unit gc-a3-s05-u013; HTML ancestor starts at line 1552 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 37 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1552 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s05-u014", "act": 3, "scene": 5, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "aria", "it": "Quel torrente, che cade dal monte,\ntutto atterra ch'incontro lo sta.\nTale anch'io, a chi oppone la fonte,\ndal mio brando atterrato sarà.", "en": "That torrent which falls from the mountain\nthrows down everything that stands in its way.\nSo too, whoever sets his brow against me\nwill be thrown down by my sword.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 5, unit gc-a3-s05-u014; HTML ancestor starts at line 1553 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 37 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1553, 1553, 1553, 1553 ], "notes": [ "The witness reads 'oppone la fonte'; translation follows 'oppone la fronte' (sets his brow against/resists) in the 1724 transcription." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s05-u015", "act": 3, "scene": 5, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "parte", "en": "He exits.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 5, unit gc-a3-s05-u015; HTML ancestor starts at line 1557 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 37 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1557 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u001", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "SCENA SESTA", "en": "SCENE SIX", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u001; HTML ancestor starts at line 1558 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1558 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u002", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Sesto, Nireno", "en": "Sextus, Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u002; HTML ancestor starts at line 1560 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": null, "source_rows": [ 1560 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u003", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u003; HTML ancestor starts at line 1561 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1561 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u004", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Tutto lice sperar, Cesare vive.", "en": "We may hope for everything: Caesar lives.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u004; HTML ancestor starts at line 1562 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1562 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u005", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "NIRENO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Segui, oh Sesto, i suoi passi.", "en": "Follow his steps, Sextus.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u005; HTML ancestor starts at line 1564 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1564 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u006", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Achilla estinto? or sì che il ciel comincia\na far le mie vendette,\nsì, sì, mi dice il core\nche mio sarà il desiato onore.", "en": "Achillas dead? Now indeed heaven begins\nto take my revenge.\nYes, yes, my heart tells me\nthat the honour I desire will be mine.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u006; HTML ancestor starts at line 1566 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1566, 1566, 1566, 1566 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u007", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 38 - Aria", "en": "No. 38 - Aria", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u007; HTML ancestor starts at line 1568 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 38 - Aria", "source_rows": [ 1568 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s06-u008", "act": 3, "scene": 6, "speaker": "SESTO", "kind": "aria", "it": "La giustizia ha già sull'arco\npronto strale alla vendetta,\nper punire un traditor.\nQuanto è tarda la saetta,\ntanto più crudele aspetta\nla sua pena un empio cor.", "en": "Justice already has on her bow\nan arrow ready for revenge,\nto punish a traitor.\nThe longer the arrow delays,\nthe more cruel the punishment\nthat awaits an impious heart.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 6, unit gc-a3-s06-u008; 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ei qui sen' viene;\nio lo precorro, e questo\nchiede quel sangue ch'è dovuto a Sesto.", "en": "Know, perfidious monster, to your dismay:\nthe gods kept unconquered Caesar safe from treachery,\nand he freed Cleopatra\nfrom her unjust chains; he is coming here.\nI go before him, and this blade\ndemands the blood that is owed to Sextus.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 9, unit gc-a3-s09-u008; HTML ancestor starts at line 1661 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1661, 1661, 1661, 1661, 1661, 1661 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s09-u009", "act": 3, "scene": 9, "speaker": "TOLOMEO", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Del folle ardir ti pentirai ben presto.", "en": "You will soon regret your reckless boldness.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 9, unit gc-a3-s09-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1667 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1667 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s09-u010", "act": 3, "scene": 9, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Si battono, e Tolomeo vien ferito, e cade morto in scena", "en": "They fight; 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Finita la sinfonia entrano Curio e  Nireno e poi Sesto e Cornelia, con un paggio che porta lo scettro e la corona di Tolomeo", "en": "Caesar, Cleopatra, and their retinue, with trumpets and kettledrums. 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The report of Curio’s drowning in Act II is not final: Nireno here announces him victorious." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u009", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "a Nireno", "en": "To Nireno.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u009; HTML ancestor starts at line 1701 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1701 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u010", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Del suo fido servir premio condegno\navrà Nireno;", "en": "Nireno will receive a fitting reward\nfor his faithful service.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u010; HTML ancestor starts at line 1700 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1700, 1700 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u011", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "a Curio", "en": "To Curio.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u011; 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HTML ancestor starts at line 1714 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1714 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u017", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CORNELIA", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Se Sesto in mia difesa\npronto non accorrea,\ndi Cornelia l'onor era in periglio.", "en": "If Sextus had not hastened\nto my defence,\nCornelia's honour would have been in danger.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u017; HTML ancestor starts at line 1715 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1715, 1715, 1715 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u018", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "La vendetta del padre\nè ben dovuta al figlio;\nSorgi, Sesto, ed amico al sen t'accolgo.", "en": "A father's vengeance\nrightly belongs to his son.\nRise, Sextus: I welcome you to my breast as a friend.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u018; 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I offer them to you.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u021; HTML ancestor starts at line 1725 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1725, 1725 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u022", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "dà la corona e lo scettro di Tolomeo a Cesare", "en": "She gives Ptolemy's crown and sceptre to Caesar.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u022; HTML ancestor starts at line 1727 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1727 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u023", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Bellissima Cleopatra,\nquel diadema che miri, a te s'aspetta;\nio te ne cingo il crine;\nRegina dell'Egitto\ndarai norma alle genti, e legge al trono.", "en": "Most beautiful Cleopatra,\nthat crown you see belongs to you;\nI place it around your hair.\nAs queen of Egypt\nyou will give rule to the peoples and law to the throne.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u023; 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This is its staged political rhetoric; the ancient settlement and offices are examined separately in comparison24." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u025", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "da se'", "en": "Aside.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u025; HTML ancestor starts at line 1737 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1737 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u026", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "(Amor, chi vide mai più bella chioma?)", "en": "(Love, who ever saw more beautiful hair?)", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u026; HTML ancestor starts at line 1736 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1736 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u027", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 43 - Duetto", "en": "No. 43 - Duet", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u027; HTML ancestor starts at line 1739 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 43 - Duetto", "source_rows": [ 1739 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u028", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA", "kind": "duet", "it": "Caro!", "en": "My beloved!", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u028; HTML ancestor starts at line 1740 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 43 - Duetto", "source_rows": [ 1740 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u029", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "duet", "it": "Bella!", "en": "My beauty!", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u029; HTML ancestor starts at line 1742 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 43 - Duetto", "source_rows": [ 1742 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u030", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA e CESARE", "kind": "duet", "it": "Più amabile beltà\nmai non si troverà\ndel tuo bel volto.\nIn te/In me non splenderà\nné amor né fedeltà\nda te/da me disciolto.", "en": "A more lovable beauty\nwill never be found\nthan your lovely face.\nIn you / In me neither love\nnor fidelity will shine\nseparated from you / from me.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u030; HTML ancestor starts at line 1744 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 43 - Duetto", "source_rows": [ 1744, 1744, 1744, 1744, 1744, 1744 ], "notes": [ "The slash alternatives are retained from the witness rather than assigned silently to individual singers. This is not a score-based vocal-part collation." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u031", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "Recitativo", "en": "Recitative", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u031; HTML ancestor starts at line 1747 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1747 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u032", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CESARE", "kind": "recitative", "it": "Goda pur or l'Egitto\nin più tranquillo stato\nla prima libertà. Cesare brama,\ndall'uno all'altro polo\nch'il gran nome roman spanda la fama.", "en": "Let Egypt now enjoy\nits former freedom\nin a more peaceful state. Caesar desires\nthat Fame spread the great Roman name\nfrom one pole to the other.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u032; HTML ancestor starts at line 1748 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "Recitativo", "source_rows": [ 1748, 1748, 1748, 1748, 1748 ], "notes": [ "'Prima libertà' is read as former/original freedom. The proclamation is the drama's political language; it is not an editorial statement that Egypt became independent of Roman power." ] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u033", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "STAGE", "kind": "stage", "it": "No. 44 - Coro", "en": "No. 44 - Chorus", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u033; HTML ancestor starts at line 1752 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 44 - Coro", "source_rows": [ 1752 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u034", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CHORUS", "kind": "chorus", "it": "Ritorni omai nel nostro core\nla bella gioia ed il piacer;\nsgombrato è il sen d'ogni dolor,\nciascun ritorni ora a goder.", "en": "Let beautiful joy and pleasure\nreturn now to our hearts;\nthe breast is cleared of every sorrow,\nlet everyone return now to rejoicing.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u034; HTML ancestor starts at line 1753 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 44 - Coro", "source_rows": [ 1753, 1753, 1753, 1753 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u035", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CLEOPATRA e CESARE", "kind": "chorus", "it": "Un bel contento il sen già si prepara,\nse tu sarai costante ognor per me;\ncosì sortì dal cor la doglia amara,\ne sol vi resta amor, costanze e fè.", "en": "A lovely happiness already prepares itself in our breasts,\nif you will always be constant to me;\nthus bitter grief has left the heart,\nand only love, constancy, and faith remain there.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u035; HTML ancestor starts at line 1757 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 44 - Coro", "source_rows": [ 1757, 1757, 1757, 1757 ], "notes": [] }, { "id": "gc-a3-s10-u036", "act": 3, "scene": 10, "speaker": "CHORUS", "kind": "chorus", "it": "Ritorni ormai nel nostro core\nla bella gioia ed il piacer;\nsgombrato è il sen d'ogni dolore,\nciascun ritorni ora a goder.", "en": "Let beautiful joy and pleasure\nreturn now to our hearts;\nthe breast is cleared of every sorrow,\nlet everyone return now to rejoicing.", "source_locator": "Act 3, scene 10, unit gc-a3-s10-u036; HTML ancestor starts at line 1759 (coarse markup anchor, not an exact speech-line range)", "music_label": "No. 44 - Coro", "source_rows": [ 1759, 1759, 1759, 1759 ], "notes": [] } ], "translation_status": "Complete newly authored English translation of every frozen receiving-text unit; editorial notes preserve emendations and uncertain grammar.", "unit_definition": "A unit is a parsed utterance, stage-direction fragment, heading, or explicit repeated text. The 700 units are not 700 musical movements. Source typography sometimes combines recitative and aria in one speaker unit.", "version_limit": "Complete requested modern transcription of the three-act dramatic text. The 1724 witness was consulted through a modern transcription; original print facsimile and score were not collated exhaustively. Printed da capo instructions and musical repetitions omitted by the web witness are not reconstructed." }