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Le luthier de Crémone et Le trésor, 1896
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1Introduction
3talented Sandro. This Filippo learns, and proves the unselfishness of his devotion by putting his own violin into the case of Sandro's as both are being taken to the competition. Unfortunately, Sandro's love has overcome his honor; he, too, has exchanged the violins, and thus restored unwittingly the work of each to its own place. So Filippo wins the prize, but only to make his second and greater renunciation. He chooses the moment of his triumph to resign his claim, and to seal the happiness of his beloved by yielding her to her lover. This poem of renunciation is a dramatic elegy rather than a comedy in the modern sense; but the chastening of Filippo's passion is wrought out with great strength and delicacy, and the metrical form will repay the closest study.
5Le Trésor is more properly a comedy. The scene is the west of France, and the time is the year of the Peace of Amiens, when Napoleon felt strong enough to extend a general amnesty to those who had fled from the wrath of the Revolution. Under these auspices Duke Jean has returned to his half-ruined château and to narrow poverty, which he shares with his former tutor, the Abbé, a good old soul, unpractical, seeking in books and musty documents material for numberless dramas that find no audience, while the great drama of European history is even then unrolling before his studiously vacant eyes. With them is the Abbé's niece Veronica,
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