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Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

CHAPTER XI
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The entertainment took place in a great hall, which had a gallery holding many instrumental players.

In the center of the hall was a bare table.

As soon as the prince and princess had entered the spectacle began with the return of Jason and his companions who deposited the golden fleece on the table as a present.

Mercury then appeared and related some of his adventures in Thessaly with Apollo.
Next came Diana with her nymphs dragging a handsome stag.

She gave the stag to the bridal pair and told a pretty story about his being the one into which she had changed the incautious Acteon.


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