OS TAROCCHI DE PARISINA MALATESTAXVI-A Torre

XVI-A Torre

ruina, rompimento, queda, perda, destruicao, presuncao e orgulho desmedidos, fracasso brutal, malogro
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All contemporary evidence concerning the tragedy that deprived the Marchese Niccolo of his wife and heir apparant appears to have been destroyed, and it is not easy to distinguish between fact and fiction in the story that has been handed down to us. All that is certain is that in the course of some journey that they took together--possibly to Ravenna, the city of Francesca and Samaritana - Ugo became the lover of his stepmother. One of Parisina's maids, who had been beaten by her mistress, betrayed the secret to Giacomo Rubino-that very same whose daughter had been treated with such generousity and affection by the Marchesana - and Giacomo brought the Marquis to a place, where, himself unseen, he was the witness to his own dishonour. *

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Na noite de 20 de Maio de 1425 Parisina e Ugo foram presos no palacio ducal de Ferrara e levados para a Torre Marchesana. O Marques Niccolo d'Este recusou-se a receber os amantes e, indiferente a opiniao expressa pelos seus conselheiros, ordenou que fossem decapitados na noite seguinte.

Ugo foi o primeiro a ser executado. Parisina, que desconhecia ter sido condenada a morte, perguntou onde estava o seu amado-quando lhe contaram que estava morto declarou que ja nada mais lhe interessava e deixou que a conduzissem ao cepo sem oferecer a menor resistencia. Ugo tinha 19 anos e Parisina 20.

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Fonte *: Dukes and Poets of Ferarra, Edmund Gardner