in Fedele and Fortunia (Two Italian Gentlemen) — Munday, Anthony, trans. (?); Pasqualigo, Luigi
Metadata
Play
Fedele and Fortunia (Two Italian Gentlemen)
Author
Munday, Anthony, trans. (?); Pasqualigo, Luigi
Year (catalogued)
1585
First performance
1584
Decade
1580s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Boys Professional; Translation
Company
Children of the Chapel (first) (Oxford's Boys)
Theater
before the Court;
Speech prefix(es)
Sbirri.
Words
288
Characters
1490
Typicality
0.27 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A09134
BritDrama no.
747
Cluster
Cluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers
Important excerpts
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Full speech
¶Mistress Victoriam I will, but some body I see, ¶Soft not to fast, but stay I charge you in the Princes name, ¶Nay Sir, we will know your name, and eke the place where you have been, Whither you go, night-walkers her are very seldom seen. ¶Is this your maid? ¶Lay hold on her with speed, Let us see what Vagabond is hid within this weed. Crack-stone ? Whowe? ¶Sorry I am good Captain, you in such a case to see. Her you are taken with this maid, which is Like to be tachte Offellonie, and accessary you with her are cachte. ¶What means this? come bend your weapons at them all, Whom shall we stop? and what's the cause that makes you thus to call? ¶ Ottaviano, what's the cause of your lamenting cry? Let's know, hath Sir Fortunio done you any injury? ¶Quiet your self Ottaviano, sith it is so passed, The bruit will not be called back so long as life doth last. His punishment makes not your daughter as she was before, But give her unto him to wife, and talk of it no more. His living is as good as yours, make up the match with speed, ¶Mistress Victoriam, now I see this only rests to know, What shall be done unto your maid, or shall we let her go? ¶Soft there Crack-stone, be not too rash to proffer fight, You and this maid together in the dark were taken this night. The matter is suspicious, sith he forsaketh her, To take her to your wife no time you should defer. We cannot force her upon him, sith she was taken with you. And howsoever you cloak it, none your meeting can allow.
Plot summary
Plot — Fedele and Fortunia (Two Italian Gentlemen)
Bedelé and Bortunid, rivals for the affections of WWictoria, are both melancholy for love. Victoria once favoured Fedele, who still loves her; but he has been away, and she now loves Fortunio instead. A third would-be suitor is @aptain§@rmekstenée, whom Fortunio has asked for help. Fedele in turn is loved by Mirginia, his original love whom he jilted when he fell for Victoria. Victoria seeks M@@USA’s magical help to compel Fortunio’s love. Both Fedele and Crackstone see her going to raise spirits at night. They throw candles into a tomb, but Crackstone has hidden inside it; his emergence convinces them that they have raised the devil, and they run away, leaving behind a wax image which was to be used in the spell. Crackstone sends the incriminating image to Fedele, who confronts Victoria and tells Fortunio everything. Victoria engages Crackstone to kill Fedele. Meanwhile P@danté has been promoting Fedele’s cause through Victoria’s maid, Alttilia, and has fallen in love with her. He visits Victoria’s house disguised as a beggar. Fedele shows this to Fortunio, convincing him that Victoria has a lover. Attilia leaks the murder plot to Pedante, who tells Fedele. Crackstone pretends to kill Fedele, fighting with the air, with the intention of telling Victoria that he is dead and marrying her before she discovers the truth. However, Fedele catches him in a net, and Victoria mocks him and pours urine over him. Crackstone swears revenge, and Pedante offers to help; but for his part Fedele accepts that Victoria’s behaviour towards him is just retribution for his mistreatment of Virginia, with whom he now seeks to make his peace. However, Fortunio too now turns his attentions to Virginia, and enlists Medusa’s assistance: she arranges for him to be caught in her room half-naked, so that he will have to marry her to silence scandal. Fedele is content, not wanting a second-hand wife; and Medusa explains that there has been no sexual misconduct. Pedante arranges an assignation between Attilia and Crackstone, who expects to meet the mistress in the maid’s clothes, and wears the beggar’s disguise so that Attilia will take him for Pedante. The scheme goes wrong when Victoria has Attilia arrested on suspicion of theft, and the couple’s true identities are revealed. Crackstone tries to force Pedante to marry Attilia, but has to take her to wife himself. Victoria decides to accept Fedele after all, and he bestows Pedante on Medusa.