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Title: Charles Di Tocca
A Tragedy

Author: Cale Young Rice

Release Date: October 11, 2010 [EBook #34055]

Language: English

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_CHARLES DI TOCCA_

_A Tragedy_

_By_

_Cale Young Rice_

_McClure, Phillips & Co._
_New York_
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
CALE YOUNG RICE

Published, March, 1903, R

_To My Wife_

_CHARLES DI TOCCA_

CHARLES DI TOCCA

_A Tragedy_

CHARLES DI TOCCA _Duke of Leucadia, Tyrant of Arta, etc._
ANTONIO DI TOCCA _His son._
HAEMON _A Greek noble._
BARDAS _His friend._
CARDINAL JULIAN _The Pope's Legate._
AGABUS _A mad monk._
CECCO _Seneschal of the Castle._
FULVIA COLONNA _Under the duke's protection._
HELENA _Sister to Haemon._
GIULIA _Serving Fulvia._
PAULA _Serving Helena._
LYGIA }
PHAON } _Revellers._
ZOE }
BASIL }

NARDO, a boy, and DIOGENES, a philosopher.

A Captain of the Guard, Soldiers, Guests, Attendants, etc.

_Time_: _Fifteenth Century._

ACT ONE

_Scene._--_The Island Leucadia. A ruined temple of Apollo near the town
of Pharo. Broken columns and stones are strewn, or stand desolately
about. It is night--the moon rising. ANTONIO, who has been waiting
impatiently, seats himself on a stone. By a road near the ruins FULVIA
enters, cloaked._

ANTONIO (_t