"Si ridesti il leon": stirring the spectators into a delirious frenzy

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Italo Svevo: a double life
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John Gatt-Rutter - 1988 - 410 pages - Snippet view

Verdi's opera "Ernani" has a famous chorus "Si ridesti il leon di Castiglia" ('let the lion of Castile awake') in which the words

'siamo tutti una sola famiglia'

( 'we are all but one family') always stirred the audience into a delirious frenzy.