The Tyrant

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Рафаэль Сабатини. The Tyrant

The Tyrant

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHARACTERS

SCENES

CAST OF THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

ACT I

ACT II

SCENE I

SCENE II

ACT III

ACT IV

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Rafael Sabatini

An Episode in the Career of Cesare Borgia, a Play in Four Acts

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It is undeniable that his government was energetic and good; for the first time the Romagna enjoyed peace and was rid of her vampires. In the name of Cesare justice was administered by Antonio di Monte Sansovino, president of the Ruota of Cesena, a man universally beloved.

Among the many contemporary pen-portraits that survive we have the following in a letter to his government from Bishop Soderini, Ambassador of Florence to the Duke, written at a time when the relations between Cesare Borgia and the Florentine Republic were none too friendly:

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