"Poet, comedian, musician, swordsman, odd brain, ambitious soul, Salvator Rosa.." "is famous in history, primarily as a painter of landscapes and battles." "The imaginative nature of his eventful life and of his romantic paintings, .." "his typical figure of brilliant and versatile artist, have inspired,.." "with full freedom of imagination and invention, this film,.." "whose fairy-like story is centered on the mask of Formica,.." "incarnation of the popular Rosa as a friend and defender of the people." "Hang, hang, Masanie'!" "All enemies of the poor people, all on the gallows!" "The captain general Masaniello is serious about." "Shut up!" "But where do you come from?" "From the boonies?" "From Torniano." " We come every 15 days for the market." "Last time, we saw him go on horseback." " He tapped me on the shoulder." " Who?" "Masaniello !" ""Being dead the head of the revolt, the fishmonger said Masaniello,.." "in order to complete the work of justice.." "and restore order to the people of Naples,.." "the most illustrious and most excellent our Lord,.." "the Viceroy Duke of Argos, Prince of Castelvetrano,.." "Captain General, Earl of Bourget, Marquis d'Avila, Grandee of Spain,.." "Admiral of His Majesty..."" " Masaniello!" "They killed him!" "And who they're going to kill now?" " No one!" "Today, they won't kill anyone!" "Formica said that he'll come!" " Who?" " Formica!" "Jesus!" "And sets himself against all of these soldiers?" " Well ..." "You'll see, Formica, what fun he'll have with all these soldiers!" "The more they are, the more he'll enjoy!" "You'll see when he arrives!" "How this fish stinks, oh mother!" "He wrote it even to the viceroy, with his signature." "Formica says: "The prisoners will die, yes, but of old age!"" "Is it true?" " Yes, Formica said that he comes." " This time too?" "And saves them?" " Who's Formica, dad?" " Formica?" "Who is Formica?" "When he comes you'll realize who he is!" "But who is?" " It's not known." "His face is hidden by a black mask." "Has the courage of a lion!" " When he comes, does a whistle." "He already saved 4..." " And that fishmonger!" "He's a friend of the people." " Yes, but who's he?" "A young man..." ""..." "Lord of the house of Velasco,.." "has commanded and commands, that the infamous ringleaders of the revolt,.." "the nominees Antonio Falcone, Gaetano Aniello, Gennaro Benedetto,.." "to be hanged..." " Sir..." " Shut up!" "on the public square..." " Sir... as sign that His Highness the Viceroy is determined to be obeyed by everyone."" "Sir, watch your back!" ""Now begins the fun!"" "Excellency!" "This note of Formica was hung on the back of the crier." "Captain!" " Double the troops on the square." "Don't worry about the paper, and on the square, don't send even one more man." "Order of the Viceroy." "Please tell me, Lamberto,.." "why I gave orders not to send reinforcements in the square?" "Please, Baron." "Highness, imagine that this is the square." "Would you put your fingers here?" "This, the gate said "of death"." "The door of the castle from which usually exit the condemned." "Formica wants to free the prisoners here?" "Tall houses, narrow streets..." "Still one moment, Baron." "If so, no need for reinforcements, since,.." "the prisoners won't get out of the castle." " No?" "Or would he prefer this side, the well of Ferrante?" "A havoc in the square, our faithful people that wouldn't ask for better..." "Here too, reinforcements are useless, the prisoners will not go by there." "I know!" "You think:" "If I were Formica, I'd try the coup here,.." "on the scaffold, more difficult, but more reliable." "But here's the genial project of my friend Salvator Rosa,.." "since the condemned won't go by here either." "You see this door?" "Ever since tonight..." "When did they bring them there below?" " Last night." "And now?" " Now, we see them appear when..." "Holy Virgin!" "They hang them there without anyone seeing them?" "Where's Formica, Pasca' ?" " What can I say!" "How can Formica get them out of there?" "Now, when the crowd starts to understand where the condemned are,.." "even if someone still believes in the intervention of Formica,.." "tac!" ", the strings are pulled,.." "the game is done, and the legendary fame of the hero.." "follows the fate of the condemned." "We think for some time to add a title to our crown of Naples,.." "the Duchy of Torniano." "They say the young Duchess Isabella is whimsical and strange." "She never fancied any man." "Her husband would have the feud, and could surrender us the title." "You're bold and handsome, and could try to win that wild creature,.." "as you have won the diabolical arts of Formica." "You agree?" "Having decided to take a month's vacation out of Naples,.." "Formica kindly asks the Fatherly Government of the Viceroy.." "not to condemn any more people than these before his return." "Formica's not coming!" "And those wretches now?" "Goodbye!" "I wouldn't be in their place!" "Formica!" "What're you doing, Formica!" "Look!" "Formica!" "That one there, is called Formica!" "Want a mullet?" "Here, eat!" "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "To you!" "Giovanni, what a great vacation we take!" "Great vacation!" "At least one painting a day." "Yes, enjoyable vacation, I see it!" "Come on, Giacobbe, cheer up!" "Two months that we left with the idea of vacations!" "Shortly we'll pass the border and leave the Kingdom of Naples." " No,.." "is that box that you must leave." "You always take it along!" "Don't worry, loafer!" "This time I decided to paint, to rest, and that's it." "But, we're going to Rome!" " Who said that?" " And where to?" "We travel without a precise destination, at whim." "Really?" "So let me do it!" "Calm!" "Pull down your bags!" "Get off." "Order of Count Lamberto D'Arco." " No!" "Safe conduct of Count Lamberto D'Arco." ""Safe conduct of free and immediate passage for Cavalier Salvator Rosa."" "It is you?" "Oh, yes." "This is the signature of the Viceroy's nephew." "Forgive me, Your Excellency." "Orders so as to not let out of the border that rogue of Formica." "It's only right!" "If you want to look ..." " Oh, no." "In this case ..." "And then people, is valued by the face!" "You have eye, young man." "Thanks, Excellency." "Make way!" " Thanks!" "Come on, Giacobbe, come on!" "But, Excellency!" "Has changed season here, all of a sudden?" "It's all dry!" " Here is lacking water, Giovanni." "See the cracks in the soil?" "Drought!" "But it's all bare, everywhere!" "Far as the eye!" "But why?" "And the water?" "But the water, they hold it all here?" "Oh, here I must paint a picture at any cost!" "Whose is this wonder?" " Well, not mine." "You think we're not able to enter here?" "Enter here?" "And how do we do, sir?" "Don't you see how many guards?" "Whip, Giovanni!" ""Duchy of Torniano Free in the centuries"" "Master guard!" " Master guard!" " Block!" "Block!" "Block!" "What's up?" "You don't know, therefore, whose is this villa?" "But...of Her Grace, the Duchess Maria Isabella of Torniano." "What a revelation!" "You want me to get you degraded?" " Highness!" "Highness...for the truth, this man has ever seen you entering, before." "Go, Giovanni." "Highness!" "The coachman said Highness!" "Yeah, said Highness!" " Highness is only for the Viceroy!" "The Viceroy!" "The Viceroy of Naples!" " Incognito!" "Soon, the trumpets!" "Play the signal of the Viceroy!" "How wonderful!" "You see, that we take our vacation?" "What paintings!" "What paintings!" " Paintings?" "Paintings my foot!" "Let's go back, Excellency!" "No kidding!" "Don't you hear the trumpets?" "Don't you see how many people?" "Let's go back, Excellency!" "When did you ever go back, with me?" "Lazybones, we're here now." "Whip it!" "His Highness the Viceroy!" "His Highness the Viceroy!" "His Highness the Viceroy." "Simone!" " Your Grace?" "But if this is the Viceroy, my eyes are blue!" "Despite the dearest dreams of the Duke of Torniano, your grandfather,.." "and the keen desire of Your Grace, your eyes are black." "It's not the Viceroy." "But!" "You are not the Viceroy!" "I?" "I think not." "You think not?" "!" "Indeed, your announcers claimed it, but I am the first not to believe it." "But then, why..." "But in short, who are you?" "I am one..." "I am one who..." "You are one who's having fun, right?" "A lot!" "Yes, I confess." "Enough..." "Captain!" "Tie this villain!" "And his coachman too!" "Lash him to blood!" "You understand?" "To blood!" "And put in jail the head guard and all the guards." "Go!" "But!" "But first, you will tell me..." "how have you dared!" "Why you dared!" "Because I knew that the Duchess of Torniano.." "had two beautiful blue eyes!" "Stop!" "Blue, you said?" " Blue." "Black!" " Blue." "And just the blue that I had imagined." "You can distinguish colors so well?" " Up to the gradient!" "And you assert that my eyes are blue?" " I'll assert it even in extreme agony." "Really, gentlemen!" "Has not been always said, at court, that my eyes are black?" "Always, Your Grace." " Black, Your Grace!" "Pardon, Your Grace,.." "isn't it safer to ask the opinion of a painter?" " Wich painter?" "My God, I wouldn't know now..." "Would it suffice the opinion of Salvator Rosa?" " Salvator Rosa?" "Oh, great!" "If a great painter like Salvator Rosa pronounces opinion..." "Thanks!" "They're blue." "Oh, so... so you are not the Viceroy, but you are Salvator Rosa." "Then you not only know how to paint,.." "but also how to act, play, sing, and make rhymes, right?" "Not bad." "You are amusing." "Maybe you really are Salvator Rosa." "After all, you may as well stay." "Thank you, but I already called for my coach." " Why?" "I must leave." " Leave?" "We'll give you the yellow flat, very apt for a painter." "You know where it is?" "Come." "You see that terrace among the woods' treetops?" "It's there." "From up there you can see the whole valley to the sea." "Pity!" "In 2 days there is the feast of the musketeers of Count Lamberto,.." "a great lord from Naples." " Count Lamberto D'Arco?" "Yes, a true gentleman, really nice." "The soldiers in the lanes are all his." "So, agreed, you stay?" "Answer." "Why are you staring at me so?" "You stay?" "Have you ever heard of Formica, you?" "Formica?" " Never heard of him?" "Too bad!" "Excuse me." "Goodbye." "Have a good trip." "Goodbye." "Come back again." "Chiefs guard, is an hour at night!" "Close the gates!" "Excellency, your vacations!" "You compromise them!" "Find the sheds, and bring everything to the yellow apartment." "Simone!" "Simone!" "Just now, in the Throne Room, you stayed unmoved, and I admired you." "But now, here..." "No longer greetings, among old friends?" " I thought so too." "But if, from a week, you didn't show up, to whom you still call an old friend..." "Simone, but I left the Neapolitan border a few hours ago!" " Yes,.." "and from a week you throw stones at the windows and sow threatening notes." "But you say?" "I've just arrived!" " As Salvator Rosa!" "You say it as if..." "Oh, good!" "So, here in the villa, from a week, there would be a..." "Formica!" "But, so, it's not you?" " I ?" "No indeed!" "And he wants?" " There's an issue for water in town." "Here is scarce." "If it goes to the park fountains, cannot go to the fields." "The old Duke left it to fields, but the daughter..." "You had a taste..." "Poor thing." "Shrew, whimsical..." "Stubborn spinster, in short." "Count Lamberto, to be likeable, encourages her worst fantasies,.." "and led her to give water to the fountains." "So, the fields dry up..." "And Formica is throwing rocks." "Alright, it will be fun to find the usurper." "Farewell, old friend." "Her Grace the Duchess!" "I said eight guards, in the hall!" "Eight, not four!" "And now you shall put ten!" "Good evening, gentlemen." "What are four guards, to Formica!" "I said we have to provoke him." "Go!" "In your pockets, gentlemen?" "Nothing!" "Nothing!" "Of course!" "Nothing!" "You see?" "Last night at this hour, there was already a note in Simone's pocket!" "And tonight..." "I'd say!" "With this misery of guards, of course he didn't show up!" "Nor was anything in my pockets, Your Grace." "And Count Lamberto?" "Where is he?" " We have not seen him yet." "But where are you coming from?" " From the yellow apartment, Your Grace." "You too, nothing, huh?" " Not tonight, Your Grace." " There!" "Sorry." "So, you're in the yellow flat." "Yes." "And you were right." "The valley, up to the sea, is framed in my window." "If the guard in the park is not in place dear Simone, you'll be sorry." "I say something, clearly, I explain perfectly, and he, as a deaf!" "It will be fear, but from fifteen days, that man..." "Well, but didn't you decide to leave?" " Indeed, until 1:00, but then..." "But then?" " But then, I considered..." " Oh, good!" "Bravo!" " Tonight ..." "Tonight , below, there is 100 more than yesterday!" "You'll see, tonight, he will come!" "Would you look under your plates, gentlemen?" "No note?" "No warning?" "Nothing?" "Nothing, Your Grace." "Well, why did you stay?" " To meet the famous Formica." "That chair is for him?" "No, for Count Lamberto, but he's not here yet." "Sit down, gentlemen." "So you want to meet Formica!" "So you know he will come!" "I wouldn't know..." "It almost seems that he's expected." "Are you scared, you?" " A bit." "Imagine me!" "I dreamed of him last night!" "His Lordship Count Lamberto." "It is you, Lamberto!" " My homage, Your Grace!" "You bring news, at least?" "Here, still nothing." "Oh, yes, forgive me." "I forgot to introduce you..." "No need, right?" " Thanks, no need." " Good evening." " Good evening." "So, your news." "Come on, talk!" "What did I say?" "The note!" "Give me that note!" "Captain!" "Formica is over here, over here!" "Light up!" "Light everything up!" "The stone came from here." "The stone came from there." "On that tree there is someone." "Seize him, and bring him here." "He's coming!" "If we don't take off the water from the fountains before midnight, he'll come!" "Beautiful!" "Who did it, you?" "The park is all lit up so, to the Gate of the Poor." "Beautiful!" " Have you seen?" "What did I tell you?" "For a week, every night, through this window... and we can't seize him!" "He's very smart!" "Oh, but if he can escape with all this light..." "No, Count Lamberto did illuminate this side of the park.." "just because he discovered that the villain is on the other side,.." "exactly opposite,.." "and to make him believe he has fallen in his snare." " Snare?" "Forgive me if I steal you the pleasure of explaining Her Grace.." "your reasoning." "Count Lamberto thought that if the stone came from there,.." "while we are standing here, it would hit us,.." "and wouldn't reach the table center." "So, it comes from higher up." "And behold that the Count discovers above the window, see, on the emblem,.." "the tick of stones that hit there and bounce on the table." "If they bounce, they were clearly launched from the opposite side,.." "from the tree beyond the porch." "But the glass?" "Who broke the glass?" "Another stone, thrown by the same hand,.." "while the first one drops on the table." "But yes, it's so!" "The oak tree!" "Why did not we think of sooner?" "It is there that he's hiding!" " He was hiding, Your Grace..." "The Count has already arrested him, and will soon bring him to your justice." "Formica arrested?" " No, Your Grace." "I assure you, Formica is not involved in all this." "This is a figment of the imagination of a boy, who throws stones." "A boy?" "Lamberto!" "You say that the stone has been launched by a boy?" "There, you see, Your Grace?" "Much less than a boy, a woman." "Then Formica..." "Formica would be a woman!" "So he's not there!" "Allow me, Your Grace?" "Did you write this note?" "Huh?" "Answer!" "Who wrote it?" "Formica?" "Allow me Count, no use asking questions to the girl, the answers are here." ""If you don't close the fountains to send water to the fields,.." "I'll come myself, and that crow of Count Lamberto..."" "Where's the irony of Formica, in these words?" "Of this adventurer you can say any thing, that he's a braggart,.." "that he's a blackmailer, that he's a common highway robber,.." "that masks his lack of courage as he masks his face..." "What do you know, you, of Formica!" "He may not have written the notes,.." "the girl threw the stones, but I tell you that Formica is here." "Yes." "I won't close the fountains, so you'll see if he lacks the courage." "Courage!" "And if I make him come here and laugh in your face?" "So he's here!" " You think he's like you?" "In Naples he outwitted that guy, his soldiers and his guns." "It was a sight!" "Beautiful!" " You'll find out!" "You all will realize who's Formica!" "Tonight ..." " Tonight?" " Tonight?" "Tonight?" "Don't you think you should finish the speech?" "Hey, stop!" "Take her to the yellow apartment." "Order of Count Lamberto." "Now go and fetch me two measures of carmine." "Excellency, the bags are in the coach, way down in the stables!" "So you go to the carriage, way down to the stables." "Excellency, 300 steps spared." "The carmine is next to the pitcher." "Then, go fetch two measures of ultramarine." "No use to look around, because this is not there." "And a canvas like this!" "Since you must bring me also a tripod." "Yes, the tripod!" "Sit down." "Remain as well standing." "Indeed, is better!" "Meanwhile thank me for saving you from the scourge." "Formica will thank you!" "Soon!" "Want to see that he'll come and free me now?" "Why you keep naming Formica as if he was behind the door?" "He is there!" " Where?" " Formica is there even where he's not there!" "And you'll realize!" " But, won't you give some peace to that poor man?" "No?" "Must be here necessarily?" "He came to Rome from Naples dead tired!" "He wanted to wander a bit, to relax..." " He?" "Why?" "Isn't he a man like everyone else?" "Hasn't he right to be interested in..." "don't know, women around him?" "For example, last time I saw him, he stood just like this,.." "before a woman." "Would it be a crime if he happened here to enjoy these beautiful fountains?" "Sure!" "You must know him well, you!" "Imagine if Formica stops, like you, in front of a woman!" "Passes in front of her...and away!" "As for the fountains, you know what he'd say?" "Beautiful!" "For you, they are!" "But for us, it cost us the entire harvest!" "And me?" "For a pitcher of water I have to walk 5 hours!" "And my mule died!" "Here all the animals fall down from thirst!" "And when the Count will be the master?" "So I gathered all the farmers." "They're all with me." "And I said:" ""We need Formica!" "But where is he?" "Who seeks him out?"" "So I said: "I'll act as Formica!"" ""And if they catch you?" "So much the better!"" ""If they lash me and kill me, all the better!"" "Alright!" "I am one of Formica." "Yeah!" "And if you're one of Formica, why you made me seize?" "First, because now they're sure I'm on their side." "Second, if I hadn't seized you myself tonight,.." "they'd have seized you tomorrow, and hanged you." "Third, because so decided Formica." " What?" "Yes." "Formica is at Torniano." " Really?" "Three hours ago he was..." "there, where you were." "Here?" "Formica?" "But how did you?" "What's this, ultramarine?" "I had said carmine!" "Ultramarine." " Carmine!" " Ultramarine!" "You were serious, he was very tired?" "Tired, he was tired." "But if he came here, it means that he had rested." "Who knows?" "He may have come because he likes you." "Oh, hush!" " Yes, you!" "He told me himself." "And when, he saw me?" " When he passed near you, like that." "He also told me he would like to be near you, smile at you,.." "caress your hair, put an arm around your shoulders..." "There, you see?" "Formica would have kissed you like this." "So?" "Why did you say to Count Lamberto "You'll see what happens tonight"?" "Because my mates will divert water to the fields." "How many of them?" " Four." "Just four?" " I wasn't able to gather more!" "Where do I find them?" " At the sluice." "Why the sluice?" "Want to break the dike?" " Yes." "To jail." "The dike!" "They wanted to break the dike!" "How did you get to know?" "The girl." "The painter who came yesterday made her squeal." " Salvator Rosa!" "And so, I must thank you!" " Thank me?" "Proving you that Formica's issue was just a childish game is little thing,.." "compared to the second ribbon of the Order of St. Basil." "2 months ago, when granting me the first for the forks' device, you told me..." "Two months ago?" "You are right to be impatient!" "Forgive me, this is my only weakness." "Nice duchy, Torniano." "Fertile land!" "8 castles, 14 villages, 10,000 peasants." " 10,000 subjects... 10,000 subjects of Duchess Isabella!" "Good people, affectionate, traditional." "That will follow meekly every will of the duchess,... and of her beloved." "Thank you!" "That day, you can count on your third ribbon." "Lucrezia, we saw Formica!" "Just as we're seeing you!" "True?" " True?" "Sacrosanct!" "Formica!" " The one from Naples, him!" " Formica!" " Himself!" "And you saw him well, this close?" " So!" " So, so!" " Even closer." "Yeah, right over us!" "Was at least 30 steps away!" "Maybe not 30, but surely 20." " Yeah, at Torniano!" "In short, the sluice is there." "We, with hoes, right under the sluice." "Suddenly.." "a whistle that's still in my ears." " Just like in Naples, Lucrezia!" "We raise our heads..." "He was up there, standing, watching us." " Imagine us!" "What said he, what did he?" " He called me, with a sign." "Me?" "I approached him, not much, and he said:" ""Tell the people that the water will come!"" "Then came the guards." " Who brought us here." "And him?" " Vanished!" "Of those four peasants what shall we do?" "I'd let the Duchess decide, advising an act of rigor." "After tomorrow, isn't there a feast?" "The competition of your musketeers?" "They shoot there!" "What targets are they?" "How do they know if they hit right?" "And those rings, what for?" "There go arms and shins of men." "That's what they're for." "In the yellow apartment there's left nothing else." "Nothing, huh?" "Excellency, nothing." " Very well." "Then go fetch..." " Oh, no!" "With these newly arrived officers, I don't know where they put the coach." "I will lead you to it." " Again?" "But that's y...ehm..." "This is..." " Formica!" "Formica, who, on the musketeers' day,.." "pays the tribute of the sword to Duchess Isabella." "Good morning, good morning!" "Those young men, who are they?" "Your Grace, the musketeer officers pay you homage of the sword.." "and become so, now, your vassals." "Thanks." " As you see, I anticipate your every desire,.." "while you persist to not read into mine." " What?" "Didn't I thank you?" "Could you wish more?" "Well, you may call me Isabella, just for today." "I wish I could say it for all my life." "All the life?" "But you know that it's so long, a whole life!" "Think about it, and then..." "Simone!" "Where's Simone?" "No one is able to find Simone?" "I told him to wait!" "When I speak, I explain perfectly, and he, as deaf!" "But go, seek him, bring him here!" "Have you seen Simone?" " Simone..." "No, Your Grace." "Oh!" "But what is this?" "A fantasy, Your Grace." "A pure fantasy." "Formica pays you the homage of the sword." "The homage of the sword?" "Like a vassal!" "I want to see if you'll have that spirit when he will come." "Because he'll come, I have a hunch." "Unfortunately, today you won't see me, I'll be behind the canvas, painting him." "You think he hasn't seen it, this?" " It's possible." "He saw it!" "And he will make you pay for it, you'll see!" "By how you speak of this Formica, you seem so admired, impatient to see him!" "You'll end up making us all jealous!" "There's no reason to be jealous!" "I want to meet him, I want to see him, but... to impress him,.." "to humiliate him." "Yes!" "Just so he pays the homage of the sword!" "Like a vassal." " Yes!" "But I alone may say "like a vassal"!" "Not you!" "Got it?" "No!" "By executing them we'll give an exemplary lesson to these peasants." "And if Formica were to come, if he dared showing up to save them,.." "the muskets would change aim, firing on him." "That sounds good." "And if Formica does not come?" "Is it wise killing all five prisoners?" "I would save that girl." "She's already given us valuable information, Count." "Do you know that just now Duchess Isabella started talking about marriage?" "I'll send the girl here, so that she knows it was you who saved her." "Come on, bring her here." "It's the second time I save you." "You really don't know how to say thanks, huh?" " Oh, yeah?" "You made me say the names of my mates and then..." "That my tongue may drop, rather!" "Hear, I think they're protesting." "Not even now you thank me?" "Well, but you're more stupid than your dead mule, my girl!" "Didn't you say you had 4 pals in all?" "You hear how many you have now?" "Yeah!" "And those wretches?" "What?" "You think Formica gave me that order and then let them be killed?" "Formica?" "Comes here, for sure?" "He told you so?" " I, am telling you!" "Watch out then!" "If he doesn't come, I'll kill you!" "You kill me!" "But if he comes..." "If he comes..." "But if he doesn't come and save them..." "Hey!" "Why you told me you saved my life?" "You're up to some other trap for us!" "Take me back down!" "Take her back up...to jail!" "I don't want to go to jail!" " Until tonight." " Coward!" "I don't want to go to jail!" "Come on, people, come on!" "The sooner we start, the sooner the fun!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Cicci'!" "You see dad?" "See how cheerful dad is?" "And Lucrezia?" " Got it, Cicci'?" "Cheer up, Cicci'!" "Hey!" "Lucrezia!" " So, Lucrezia?" " She's not there!" "Fine, Lucrezia!" "Smart, Lucrezia!" "We do this, we do that..." "And then at the last moment ..." " Smart, Lucrezia!" "But, you saw him well, Formica, on the sluice, right?" " Formica?" "Sure!" "And you?" " Yes, but you were closer." "Yes, but you know that I can't see well by an eye." "And then, at night..." "You don't believe he'll come?" "I wish it for you Isabella, and for me too." "How many were the sentenced in Naples?" "3!" "Here they're 5!" "He'll come, he'll come!" "Then... no more jealousy!" "I say, we're not ready yet?" "My musketeers are the fastest in the viceroyalty." "Ready, captain?" "Your Lordship, we are loading from only 15 minutes, the time strictly necessary." "Speed up!" " Speed up!" "Speed up!" "Speed up!" "..." " Easy to say!" "Then misfortunes happen!" " They didn't realize yet that these are firearms!" "They have yet to measure the powder, put the wad,.." "press, measure the lead, put more wads,.." "press, trigger, light the fuse..." "There's time!" "Ciccì, there's still time!" "Besides, Formica at Naples appeared at the last moment, no?" "But if at Torniano he would show up a bit sooner..." "You know, can't fool around with guns." "I tell you there is time!" "Ready to fire!" "Ready to fire!" "What did he say?" " That we are ready to fire." "Now they do?" "They shoot?" "When is given the signal to light the fuses." " What's the signal?" " This." "No!" "I want to do it." "It's so hot ..." "Light the fuses!" "Go!" "Light the fuses!" "Your dignity, Isabella." "Daddy!" "Daddy!" "Bastards!" "Pull him down!" "But, I don't want!" "Enough!" "Formica!" "Formica!" "There he is!" " Captain, to your right!" "Behind the balcony!" "They killed him!" " No!" "There was no one on the horse!" "Yes, it's true." "I saw it, there was no one!" "All behind the terrace!" "Disperse!" "Seek him!" "Shouldn't be dismounted far from here." "Formica!" "Formica!" "Formica!" "He says to go that way!" " He wants to go that way!" "Yes, let's hide them among us, like in Naples!" "Captain!" "Over there!" "On the targets." "Run!" "On the targets!" "He can't escape you!" "Captain, quick!" "Over there, over there!" "Captain!" "Run!" "He's here!" "Get him!" "Captain!" "Here they are!" "Our soldiers!" "They'll catch you!" "Flee!" "Flee!" "Lord, you hurt yourself?" " Idiot!" "Damn him, where is he?" " Where is escaped?" " He's going to pay!" "Where did he go?" "Haven't you seen I was beneath there?" "Swooped upon me suddenly, the coward!" "I ripped this off him as he jumped down." "You by here, the others with me." "Who was right?" "You saw, he was here!" "And still is, he opened the fountains." "No, Your Grace." "I opened them myself." " Simone, at last!" "What's going on?" "The fountains shut, the coachman Giovanni locked in the stables!" "I just set him free." " Obviously, he came." "He's here!" "Yes, but before escaping, he said these exact words:" ""The duchess must not marry Count Lamberto, on pain of death"." "The duchess must not marry Count Lamberto, on pain of death?" "On pain of death!" "?" "But it goes on always so?" "It's not over?" "No!" "I assure you, these wedding rings are the most valuable work of my art master." "Otherwise we could execute them at Your Grace's taste, but it takes time." "Time?" "What time!" "They haven't yet understood that there is no time!" "Allow me, Your Grace." "The time mentioned by the maestro is not an eternity, 3 or 4 days, right?" "I would advise you to wait." "Wait 4 days for the rings!" "You're really gone mad, my dear!" "Oh, it's you, Lamberto. 5 hours that we can't find you!" "Have you caught him?" "There!" "I told you that you'd waste your time!" "Maybe not really wasted, Your Grace." "Certainly our friend Salvator Rosa would have concluded much more,.." "but I presume that we too have found something." " You got a track?" "For one, I am sure that Formica has not left the park, or I'd say, the villa." "Absolutely sure." "Now we only need open our eyes, and seek." "We really must not lose this other wonderful opportunity to capture him." "By the way, Lamberto." "You know that tomorrow we get married?" "At this time 25 heralds are proclaiming it throughout the duchy." "Lamberto, I am so happy!" " Thank you, Isabella!" "Happy to do him this spite." "Since Formica forbade, on pain of death, my marriage with you." "So said this man." "Who dared to repeat it, suggesting me - understand?" " to obey!" "Allow me, Your Grace, since this is a man who never threatened in vain,.." "and even now ..." "even now, Your Grace ..." "Let the rings as are." "Provided they're ready by tomorrow morning, they're fine." "So, for the banquet?" "For the banquet, I'd like to propose to Your Grace one of these necklaces." "If I had said:" ""Formica imposes you to marry Count Lamberto tomorrow",.." "Count Lamberto would have to wait this wedding for centuries." "It's been enough instead to say:" ""Formica forbids you..."" "So, the ban would be a move!" " Calculated." " Calculated?" "And what interest would have Formica?" " Calculated by me, Count." "This ban, I invented it!" "Lamberto, you think I could wear this necklace?" " It looks beautiful." "He says the Comtesse de Valois has one like it." " May I?" "Better." "The Valois are the best blood of France!" "No!" "If the Valois already has it, I can't have it!" "Perhaps the duchess is right, since there already one in Paris." "Let me see..." "I take it." "It's not very beautiful, but..." "No matter, I'll take it." "Have you seen?" "The game is very simple, right?" "And you, with what interest you have played it?" " I?" "Formica is certainly at Torniano to prevent this marriage." "Perhaps in the villa, you said." "Perhaps it is precisely in this room." "We need to speed things up, let him face a fact accompli." "For you this wedding is very important, but also for me." "Oh, your weakness!" "It's only fair." "Today I'm dear to the Duchess, today you're due the third ribbon." "But it amuses me to think what you will say to that girl tonight." "Formica didn't come?" "Didn't he free his pals?" "And the others?" "Haven't you seen this morning how they started to wake up?" "What is it again?" "Still don't believe me?" "But was it really him?" "Was it Formica to tell you about the wedding?" "Again!" "Yes, when he threw me under the painting." " Oh, yeah!" "When he threw you under the painting." "He treats you well, huh?" "Some friend of Formica you are, to let him throw you under a painting!" "Women are too stupid to make revolution." "Well, if I'm stupid, you tell me." " But, to divert suspicion, right?" "Don't you see that the Count must believe that Formica is against me too?" "This I understood." "But why the marriage?" "That's what I don't understand!" "You know it is a ruin for all?" "Because all people of Torniano are stupid like you." "If you don't kick them in the shins, they don't move!" "While we must act quickly, if the fields don't get water now, goodbye harvest!" "Now, with the Count who, by marriage, will be the master, they'll wake up." "And so tomorrow, while he thinks to be marrying,.." "Formica, with your buddies, will set him up the bundle." "Him, and his musketeers." "You understand, my pretty one?" "What have you got to say, now?" "But then,.." "you won't tell it to Formica?" "No." "He won't know... ever." "Light it again." "And to think I was born to go strolling, paint my paintings..." "No!" "I gotta make myself miserable over these folks!" "What do I care about them?" "What is it now?" " There's the gathering of all the boroughs leaders." " Oh, yeah?" "Formica will give orders to all for tomorrow." "And you, what you do?" " Don't you see?" "I go there." " And me?" "How do I get out?" "I go with you?" "No,..." "Better not." "If we go out together, the Guards could..." "Maybe I go out alone, before you." " No, you stay home." "I'll give you orders tomorrow." " Can't Formica do it, as for the others?" " No!" "Look, when he came this morning, you locked me in jail,.." "tomorrow you'll give me something to do a mile away." "And now, what you think?" "You think I'm not coming?" "Why you don't want me to come?" "You fear I might see something I shouldn't see?" "Now don't start doing the wife!" "You understand?" "Yes, I understand that you are a trickster!" "Who is going to betray us all!" "All together, us and him!" "But I'll come along, and you'll see!" "In jail, until tomorrow morning at 7!" " Traitor!" "Coward!" "Open the cell of that peasant." "And you, why don't you go to sleep?" "It's late already." "To sleep!" "Go!" "These too, all to sleep!" "You too, to sleep." "To sleep." "To sleep!" "You too, go to sleep." "I'm on it here!" "I'll take care." "Go, go!" "Say, are you deaf?" "Get out of here, I said!" "Listen, girl..." "Were you sleeping?" "Look, I let you free." "Yes, I let you go." "But you..." "You know Formica, right?" " And what should I do?" "Bring him these keys, and tell him:" ""The Duchess, so to show you in what count she holds your words,.." "will marry tomorrow." "And since she's not afraid of you, here it is,.." "this is the key to the gate beside the pheasantry,.." "and this is for the door behind the old guardhouse"." "You understand which?" "The old one." ""The Duchess tonight will be alone, no guards on the stairway, no one"." "Got it?" "Tell him so." "And tell him that I'll have a wedding dress, to marry Count Lamberto." "If he wants to see how it fits me..." "But you, you won't be in love with Formica?" "Me?" "I care a whiff, about Formica!" "Good girl!" "Alright then." "Tell him so, and give him the keys." "Don't loose them!" "Now I go out first, see if they've all gone, and a bit after, you go out, free." ""For the nuptials of Isabella and of Lambert,.." "I can't find rhymes equal to your advert"..." ""advert"..." "but why they named him Lambert?" "Maria, come here." "It is the first time I attend a wedding." "How beautiful must be!" "Wedding!" "I've seen many, but after my ones, I don't believe in them anymore!" "This makes younger." "What're you doing so stiff?" "And you?" "Not that!" "The white brocade!" "It's more suitable for the ceremony!" "So, Giovanni." " Yes, Excellency,.." "The boys are settling right next to the girls." "The incoming coach has 4 horses." " Yes, 4 fine horses." "Are the first guests at the wedding." " No, it's the first guest." "It's a man." "An old man." "But how does...?" "Yes, an old man, Excellency!" " The old are always early risers." "The closer to sunset, the more want to enjoy the sunrise." "Oh, Giovanni, after all life is boring when is so predictable!" "To know everything, to guess everything." "Well, now look." "You see that road bend, beyond the courtyard wall?" " Yes." "And then, farther, there is a plateau, you see?" " Yes." "On the road there is a coach. stopped." "On the esplanade, a group of peasants." "Should be about two hundred." "Well?" "You look at me dumbfounded." "Don't worry, Giovanni." "This I have not guessed, this ..." "Well, Giovanni?" "Excellency, I may have gone blind, but I don't see anything." "Not a wagon?" " Not a wheelbarrow, not even a peasant." "Nothing." "Oh!" "There's just an old woman, poor thing, shuffling along." "There, look, there, look, my lord." "What time is it?" " Past 8:00." "Gentlemen!" "The Duchess was kidnapped!" "Damsels, Her Grace has disappeared!" "What?" "Already?" "Right now that I had found the rhyme!" "Out everyone." " Not me, huh?" "Out everyone!" "Let pass now!" "Well?" "There's no one here?" "Well?" "Hey, you!" "That peasant who had to be here since 7:00, bring her now!" "She's not there." " Not there?" "!" "I found the prison empty, she's vanished." "Has vanished also Her Grace." " Who?" " Her Grace the Duchess." "Now you see what happens to you!" "You and Count Lamberto did abduct our Duchess!" "What have I done?" " You play your part well!" "Yes, you!" "The painter Salvator Rosa, is here, alone?" "Out, stupid." "You want to be caught?" "Go!" "I'll call you later." "Alone." "His Lordship Count Lamberto." "Say, captain." "Last night the Duchess went down to the prison and spoke to the girl." "Then she dismissed the guards and this morning..." " Enough." "Go." "The Duchess was kidnapped by the girl." "Girl and peasants are in agreement with you, and you're risking your head!" "But you say, Count?" " You're risking your head." "Like that!" "Like the prison guards who left their post, last night." "I'll regret much to have to use the same treatment tomorrow at dawn,.." "at cockcrow, with my distinguished friend Salvator Rosa." "But I think that Formica will regret it more." " Formica?" "Dear friend,.." "will be a malignancy of fate,.." "but every time I faced that rascal,.." "you were there as well." "Speak clearly." "You think that I'm one of Formica's?" "That you are one of Formica's?" "It is saying very little." "Oh!" "That I am Formica." "You are truly a great statesman." "A speculation I wouldn't have done, but it had to be done." " More important,.." "is to prove it's just a speculation." "Before tomorrow morning." " All right." "You think the Duchess was kidnapped by the peasants in league with me?" "I ask you a grace." "Wait a moment to judge me." "I'll join you soon, if you allow me, Count, in your apartment,.." "and I'll give you any explanations that you'll want to ask me." "Thank you." "Come in, you." "Hurry!" "Did you hear who came in, and just went out now?" "Since you are the big shot of all the locals,.." "if I were, as you say, a traitor,.." "I would have given you in to him, don't you think?" "What is it?" "Speak up!" "But I..." "I came just to tell you on the part of the others,.." "that if you don't tell me, now, where is the mistress, we..." "So you say that I kidnapped her, huh?" " Yes!" "In league with that guy." "And what would be the Count's interest?" "In the end, she didn't want to marry him." "And tell me, who told you all this nice stuff?" "Lucrezia!" "So you saw Lucrezia?" " Of course I saw her!" "When?" " Three hours ago." " Three hours, good!" "So she calmly chatted with you, and told you everything, with no hurry?" "Of course she was in a hurry!" "She almost ran over me with the wagon." "Can you tell me if there was a canvas, on the wagon?" "Of course there was a canvas." "And you know what was under the canvas?" "Under the canvas?" " There was the Duchess." "Barmy!" "And you know who abducted her?" "Lucrezia, that stupid!" "Cause she didn't trust me!" "But we..." " But you now go to Lucrezia's farmhouse, and wait for me there!" "And if you come here again with these airs..." "No, I...really, I didn't want to come, I didn't believe that you..." "It was the others!" "Yeah?" "Take this, to the others." "Scram!" "Let him go, order of the Count." "You heard?" "They accuse me of kidnapping her in league with you." "You, of being in league with them." "I think this clearly proves my innocence." "The Duchess was not kidnapped nor by you, nor by them or by me." "She was kidnapped by herself, to run behind Formica." "Captain, here!" "May I ask what you intend to do?" "I do surround the farm, and watch at sight in his room.." "the famous painter Salvator Rosa." "Because, my lord, do not believe me convinced!" "History is full of such great injustices dear Count." "Anyway, do watch me, if you deem it appropriate..." "But to surround the farm, no, it would be unforgivable." "You have to wait until there is Formica." "You really want me to seize him?" " Of course!" "Until he's not in your hands, you'll continue to suspect me." "And I promise to let you find him in the farm tomorrow before dawn." "Admit it, it's strange that you can dispose of him with such certainty." "But it's so easy!" "Just make believe that a danger,.." "a serious danger, threatens the Duchess." "Formica, you know, is led to offense and defense by a special spirit of chivalry." "You follow me?" "Let's see." "If my friends from Torniano were informed, by me, for example,.." "that tonight at the farm, a killer of yours.." "will make an attempt on the Duchess' life, what would happen?" "Formica finds out, rushes immediately, and then..." "Then yes, is worth to surround the farmhouse." "Congratulations, nice plan!" "But tell me, who can believe I want to attempt on the life of the Duchess?" "Who?" "But all!" "People are so wicked!" "You signed a wedding contract that gives you all the advantages of the marriage." "They'll say that by now the wife became a superfluous weight." "They'll say that a capricious and shrew woman is harder to govern than a duchy." "More so, when she's loved by the people, they'll say, much more than you." "In short, you almost seem to suggest a killing." " No!" "Only the comedy of a killing!" "A comedy to attract Formica and all the ringleaders." "Look." "The comedy." "The comedy!" "And if I do surround the house only tomorrow at dawn..." "At the first cockcrow." " Granted, Will I find Formica?" " You'll find him." "And if I don't find him?" " You'll find him." "I said, if I can't find him?" "You will find me." " I'll find you." "It's understood?" "It's understood." "But if you find him..." "If you find him, forgive me..." "It's understood?" " We'll see." "Meanwhile, as you set off to the farm,.." "remember that you are free only until tomorrow morning, at the first cockcrow." "You see this dagger?" "This is the dagger of the comedian Salvator Rosa." "But I noticed that by pressing here..." "And he knew that I would notice." "Your Lordship, I don't believe in the sincerity of the advice of the painter." "Once at the farm, you will have a dual-purpose dagger." "If they discover us, if they had laid us a trap,.." "the dagger..." "will be the false one." "If all goes well..." " We'll free the duchy from a whimsical doll." "All will have happened among the locals,.." "after a death threat by Formica,.." "and with a weapon that does not belong to us." "Go, captain!" "And tell to the nobles of the duchy.." "that I can receive them only in an hour." "Gentlemen, the Count won't receive you before an hour." "He's collecting evidence to make very serious revelations.." "about the disappearance of the Duchess." "They say that.." "I must tell you that here there is not." "Who's not there?" "Lucrezia?" " No, Lucrezia is there!" "Mr. painter, no comedy!" "We're rustic people, but the brain, thank God..." "So, you told this guy that the Duchess was in the farmhouse,.." "and the Duchess is not there." "But Lucrezia's there?" " Of course." "So, listen to me." "Tonight, Count Lamberto will send a man here ..." "Stay here, and pretend to sleep." "I told him that I'd get you drunk." "Then the captain arrives, goes up, approaches the Duchess, I jump on him..." "When the Duchess sees the captain,.." "the trusted man of the Count, who wants to kill her..." "When tomorrow morning comes Count Lamberto, you think she'll marry him?" "It's true!" " She sees he wants to kill her..." "And kicks him out!" " And he says:" ""Here in Torniano, the air isn't healthy!"" ""Whip, driver!" "Out!" - "Farewell, Count!"" ""Go, go" ..." "What's so funny now?" "Why, you're laughing." "Can't I laugh, too?" "Enough is enough!" "We have finished." "You have the Duchess?" " You have her!" " I ?" "Look, Lucrezia, if it turns out it was you..." "Mind you, if we find out that you know where she is, it's trouble for you!" "Who pulled you out of jail?" "Come inside with me." "You wait here for a moment." "So?" "Who got you out of jail?" "The jailer?" "Count Lamberto?" "I ?" "So, it's the Duchess." "She came to you." " No!" "What you mean, no?" "She came to you and said:" ""If you tell me where Formica is..."" "No!" "She didn't say so!" "So, she came!" "She came and told you just so:" ""If you take me to Formica, I set you free"." " She said... that you dream things!" "And since you didn't trust me..." " Of course I didn't!" " There!" "You thought that the easy way to prevent the wedding was to get rid of the bride." "So you told her:" ""Come, I'll take you to Formica"." "And you took her here with the wagon!" "So, find her, if she's here!" "Go on!" "Why did you tell the duchess that Formica was here?" "While you know very well that there isn't." "Here there is no Formica!" "Nor can he come here, for any reason, ever!" "There is no Formica?" "Nor can he come here?" "Is it true?" "You nasty liar!" "Yes, it's just so, as he says." "I told you to give the keys to Formica,.." "and tell him I waited at palace, if he had guts." "Alone." "I would treat him as he deserves!" "And you ran after me to tell me that, to see Formica, I had to come here,.." "since he would never come there." "And indeed, soon Formica will be here." " Will be here?" "Here?" "And we'll take him into a trap, at last!" " In a trap?" "You'll take him into a trap!" "?" "Gaetano, Pasquale!" "What did I tell you?" "He's going to take him into a trap!" "Who?" " What trap?" "He wants to take Formica into a trap, the traitor!" "Get him, tie him, put him in the cellar!" "In jail!" "For once you'll taste it too!" "She's just shameless, you know!" "What did she tell you?" "That the Duchess was not here, that she knew nothing about her!" "Greet!" "Who is?" "Who is Formica among them?" " Just a minute, Your Grace, please." "It was Lucrezia to kidnap the Duchess!" "Lucrezia betrayed us!" "Who kidnapped the Duchess?" "Who hid her?" "Who wanted..." " I, I !" "Because, with the wedding, Formica would come, and she..." " And she?" "She would put him in jail!" " Oh yeah?" "So why not say it to your pals?" " Well.." "They don't understand anything, they'd tell you all." "Did you hear how she considers you, this big liar?" "She does at whim!" "If Formica says white, she'll do black!" "And has the nerve..." "In jail!" " In jail!" "But there's no prison here!" " But we have a cellar!" "In jail!" "Come on, come on!" " Grab her!" " You're a liar!" "She protests as well, this shameless!" " Close the door!" "Hey, say!" "Isn't there danger that the captain, once he's close to her..." "Yeah, is it sure..." " Relax." "Didn't I tell you?" "I gave my dagger!" "It's a dagger for comedy." "The blade, instead of going down, tac!" ".." "comes up." "My lords, I'm here in the absence of her whom I have the right to defend.." "and the duty to avenge: your Duchess." "Where she is, I still don't know." "I wait for any of my men to bring me news,.." "to finally put an end to the anxiety that consumes me." "If any of you has suspicions, communicate them to me." "I will tell you, in my turn, that our guest, the painter Salvator Rosa,.." "and my captain of the musketeers, have also mysteriously disappeared." "This disappearance raises the worst suspicions, but be absolutely sure.." "that if I were to find them with the Duchess,.." "they will pay with their lives for their crime!" "All those faithful to the Duchess, and who want to kick Count Lamberto out.." "of Torniano, here tomorrow at dawn, at first cockcrow." "Now, each at his post." "I stand there, behind the fireplace." "And remember:" "the captain must go smoothly up to the Duchess." "But, are you sure the dagger..." " Right!" "I told you, don't worry ." "Now go, quickly!" "He'll come any moment and must find you asleep." "Go!" "What say you?" " I say, this "smoothly".." "don't look smooth at all, to me!" "Then, when I saw him, I thought:" ""This here is not a painter?"" "So why intrude?" " No, not that." "He intrudes 'cause..you heard Formica yesterday: we must obey him as to him." "Okay, that's alright, but, now we..." "Now, you know what we do?" "Your Grace may come down." "Where shall I place myself?" " There." "Where shall I look to see him coming?" "Nowhere." "Formica never says how he arrives." "Never says from where he arrives." "There!" "Here." "Lie down." "Down!" "Here, Your Grace." "Has come?" "Where is he?" "Leave him!" "Leave him now!" "But this is the captain!" "And Formica?" "Earlier I asked you to close her eyes, but now I ask you to keep them open." "You recognize the man coming toward you." "The trusted man of Count Lamberto." "Take a look at the amorous message he was sending you, your noble fiancé!" "Alright, but..." "Then,.." "it's all over?" "And Formica?" ""Smoothly"!" " See how "smooth" was?" "That's the dagger that did "tac"!" " And came back inside!" "But didn't you understand..." " Shut up a minute." " But.." "This was not to be the dagger that did "tac"?" "Forgive me, but you don't realize..." " Talk to us!" "You said it was a fake dagger, with "tac"." "And where is this "tac"?" "But what "tac"?" " Sure, the "tac"?" " The "tac"!" "A dagger with "tac"!" "You told us that..." " I didn't say anything!" "But really!" "There had to be a dagger doing "tac", that didn't do tac." "Formica was to come, and he didn't come." "You had to get him trapped, and you haven't got anything!" " What?" "Who said he wanted to put Formica into a trap?" " Huh?" "Then Lucrezia was right!" "I'll go get her out of the cellar now!" "It's true that you wanted to do that?" " Come on, speak!" " "Smoothly", huh?" "So, this trap, is there or not?" " There it is, the trap!" "Where?" " Here." "You understand how it is?" "As soon as Formica had come,.." "he would do..." " He would do "tac"." " He would do "tac"..." "What "tac"!" "You are a bunch of fools!" "If I had said that the dagger was real, you..." "So you admit to know that the dagger was real." " Of course!" " Oh yeah?" "Good!" "But it's fake as well!" "Look!" "Real, fake!" "Down!" "Beware!" "At last they got it!" "Finally I see you too, tied up like a donkey!" "Good, serves you right!" "Bind him tight, the liar!" "Now I go back to the palace." "I recommend it." " And I'll marry Count Lamberto." " The best you can do!" "And you, tie me up!" "But if you don't want to be slain like sheep,.." "scram from here now!" "And let no one be here tomorrow, at cockcrow!" "Don't listen!" "If he says it's better go, it means you'd better stay here!" "Lamberto!" " No, don't call him, Your Grace." "Marrying the Count would be a disaster, for you and for us." "Lamberto!" "Forgive me, Your Grace!" "Your Lordship,.." "I saw Salvator Rosa and your captain enter a farmhouse a mile from here." "Are you certain?" " Absolutely." "I ran to warn you." "And I could swear I heard, as I left, the Duchess screaming your name." "What did I tell you?" "They are two traitors!" "Gather the troops!" "We will surround the farmhouse, and once closed the circle we shall advance." "It is they who told me to bring it." "Were it for me...!" "So they're gone?" " You told them to send them all back home, right?" "So they went to call the others too!" " And left the Duchess here." " Of course!" "You said to send her back home!" "Aren't you glad?" "Don't you always say white so that is done black?" "And so the Count comes, kills her in earnest, and then blames you all!" "And why weren't you clear?" "You hop from one side to the other!" "It's not clear yet where you stand!" "You've done so many scams that you're confused yourself." "You're making run amok us all!" "And then,.." "you who so call others stupid,.." "with all your brains, you know what?" "As a stupid, I understand the dumbest things, and you don't." "Because to you, the heart doesn't say anything." "To me, yes." "Here is why!" "You meant to change the Duchess' mind:" "the dagger, the comedy..." "You've done all that mess!" "Yet it was so much simpler!" "Sufficed understand that the Duchess is madly in love with Formica!" "And if you had sent Formica to her..." "Really?" "And it's right you, to tell me?" "Sure, I!" "There, I said it!" "You're tied up!" "You can't tell her, now!" "I knew it!" "But if I didn't tell her,.." "if I did all that mess, it's just for you!" "For me?" " You so cherished Formica!" "Formica here, Formica there..." "You Liar!" "You haven't done else but send me to jail!" "Out of jealousy, so that he wouldn't see me!" "But when someone is really in love, sacrifices himself." "At one point, he sacrifices himself." "And you've done it for me?" " Yes." "Because..." "Because you loved me?" "Yes." "Ah!" " What is it?" "Nothing." " You complain!" "Does it hurt?" "No." " Are you tired?" "I'm sleepy..." "Thanks." "But not your hands." "Don't even think about it!" "This yes, so at least so you can lie in the hay." "How long before dawn?" " Three hours, Why do you want to know?" "So, curiosity." "Since at dawn I gotta kick the bucket..." "But you say!" " Well, at dawn Count Lambert is here..." "I told him, to your benefit, that he would find..." "In short I did another mess, as you say." "When he comes and finds out, he kills me." "Yeah!" " Yes, he promised me." "If I handled the sword like Formica..." "but I handle the brush." "But I've been wrong...and I pay!" "But you will do celebrate a Mass for me?" "I die in sin for you, you know?" "Sin of desire." "Listen, swear to me..." "Yeah, but who believes in your oaths?" "You are such a liar!" "Swear...?" " That it's true that Count Lamberto..." "Yes, at dawn he's here and kills me, I swear." "Look,.." "if this is another lie, then it will be God's care to punish you." "I will untie you!" "Now go!" "I warn Formica and send him here by the Duchess." "And then you scram." "Away from here!" "Forgive me, Lucrezia." "I think this is the last time." "What?" "No!" "Where are you going?" "Where are you going?" "The homage of the sword!" "Who does this homage goes when I say so, not when he wants!" "You think I'm a little girl who, just satisfied her whims..." "I am the Duchess of Torniano!" "And I'll show you if I'm scared of you!" "So, you want me to be good and wise!" "I won't be, neither one nor the other!" "And I won't send the water to the fields!" "No, I will not!" "And tomorrow I'll marry Count Lamberto." "No?" "And I say yes." "I'll marry him because I love him." "I do because I hate you, because you don't want, because it makes you angry." "Because it makes you angry..." "But always in jail they put you, poor thing!" "What's your name?" "You know that we'll kick him out, Count Lamberto?" "Right away!" "And now we'll go to the sluice and send water to the fields." "Be quick!" "Hurry!" "Run!" "Congratulations, Salvator Rosa!" "At least you are a man of his word." "Come down!" "You dropped the sword, Your Lordship." "As you see, I'm a man of his word." "I always keep more than what I promise." "You have found Formica and you've found me as well." "Pretend to have one goner." "Which do you prefer?" "The painter who advised you, or Formica who fought you?" "It's the third time that you slip Count." "And you haven't noticed yet that here there is water." "Water!" "Water that was returned to the fields, true Simone?" " Indeed." "By the Duchess in person at the first cockcrow." "Don't move yet, I beg you." "This fact should tell you many things, or just one:" "the duchess has changed, she's not for you, and will tear the wedding contract." "I tell you another:" "Formica has forever left Torniano." "As for you, your Uncle Viceroy,.." "who's coming at this time to attend your coronation,.." "will advise you for the best." "We are pleased to be with you." "We've demonstrated with this trip.." "done to personally ascertain the prosperity of the duchy." "We are sorrowful, however, that the precarious health of Count Lamberto.." "require urgently some sea air, and push us back again to Naples." "And all our gratitude.." "we want to bestow to Cavalier Rosa, illustrous painter and inventor,.." "who, with his ingenious and simple plan of an aqueduct,.." "ensures water to the fields, after it has passed by these beautiful fountains." "Simple and ingenious project, to which will be assigned.." "the 2,000 arquebusiers of Count Lamberto,.." "who will remain as welcome guests of the good people of Torniano.." "for all the time necessary to the works, after our, unfortunately,.." "Your Grace, immediate departure." "You too are leaving?" " Unfortunately." "You'll see Naples again." " Sure." " Rome." " Maybe." "Maybe..." "Maybe, you'll see again him." "Well, if you see him, when you see him, tell him..." "Tell him?" "No, don't tell him anything, you can't understand." "Farewell Cavalier." "Old Simone!" "Lucky you, you're old!" "Tell me,.." "the latest proposal of marriage we had, who is it?" "Do you remember?" "Lucrezia!" "What is it?" "What do you want?" "Formica!" "Then it's true that you saw me in Naples,.." "when you passed before me, so." "And you want to take me away with you?" "Why?" "Because you love me?" "Oh!" "Too late!" "You're coming right now that I'm in love with that ass of a painter!" "Yes, your friend Salvator Rosa!" "That rogue, impostor!" "Oh, yeah, huh?" "Coward!" "Trickster!" "Cheerful, Giacobbe!" "This time, on vacation, I'll come too!" "Go!" "Go!" "Let's go!"