PAOLO AND FRANCESCA SCENE.-A gloomy Hall in the Malatesta Castle at Rimini, hung with weapons and instruments of the Chase; GUESTS and CITIZENS assembled, with SOLDIERS, HUNTSMEN and RETAINERS; hounds held in leash. As the scene opens a trumpet is blown outside. Enter GIOVANNI hurriedly down a gallery to the Hall with papers in his hands He pauses on the steps. GIO. Peace to this house of Rimini henceforth! Kinsmen, although the Ghibelline is fallen And lies out on the plains of Trentola, Still have we foes untrampled, wavering friends. Therefore, on victory to set a seal, |