DRAMATIS PERSONE.

ANDRE-AS DORIA, Doge of Genoa.

GIANETTINO DORIA, his Nephew.

FIESKO, Count Lavagna, Chief of the Conspiracy.

MULEY HASSAN, a Moor.

ROMANO, a Painter.

Germans of the Doge's Body Guard.

LEONORA, Fiesko's Wife.

JULIA, Gianettino Doria's Sister.

BERTHA, Verrina's Daughter.

ROSA and BELLA, Leonora's Waiting Women.

Other Noblemen and Citizens.-Servants, &c.

The Scene lies in Genoa.-Time-the Middle of the 16th Century,

Anno 1557.

Both the Dorias wear Scarlet.-The rest of the Nobility, Black.

The Costume throughout is Old German.

FIESK O.

ACT I.

SCENE I.

A Saloon at FIESKO's.-Music and the noise of a Ball heard at a distance. Enter LEONORA (masked.)-ROSA and BELLA following her (in great agitation.)

LEONORA.

(Tearing off the mask.) No more! Not a word more! It is but too evident. (Throwing herself into a chair.)

This has completely overcome me!

ARABELLA.

But, my Lady!—

LEONORA.

(Rising.) Before my eyes, too! a notorious coquette ! In presence of Genoa's whole nobility! (strongly affected.) Rosa Bella! Think of that-before my sorrowing eyes!

ROSA.

See this business in its proper light, I entreat you—a mere piece of gallantry.

LEONORA.

Gallantry! The busy correspondence of their eyes; the anxious vigilance of his attentions! The long continued kiss imprinted with such fire upon her naked arm, that still the glowing mark remains there! Was this mere gallantry! Ah! and the enraptured look, with which, like painted Ecstasy, he gazed on her, as if the world itself had fallen away around them, and nought but he and Julia had survived !—Gallantry! you, my good girl, who have never loved, must not dispute with me between gallantry and affection!

ROSA.

So much the better, Madonna.-To lose one husband, is

to gain at least ten gallants.—