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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Gregorio LAZZARINI, "RINALDO ED ARMIDA" -- Villa ZENOBIO.

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The scene is inspired by Tasso's GERUSALEMME LIBERATA.

The sorceress ARMIDA and RINALDO, who has been seduced by her.

He is thus distracted from his duties as a crusader.

They are seen during a dalliance in a woodland setting.

The enchantress is contemplating her image in a mirror, a 'crystal mirror, bright, pure, smooth and neat', in the poet's words.

In a completely self-referential and narcissitic manner, she crowns herself with a garland of white and red roses in front of the dazed and enthralled RINALDO, who has fallen prey to a disturbance of the senses that has, at this point, cluded his mind.

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