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A CLOCK STRIKES
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Hush please.
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- What time is it? - 6 p.m.. - Then
why has it struck three times?
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It has to be the secret calling
of the Pope, nobody has to know it.
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He's summoning the Papal guards,
there has to be an important reason.
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We will speak about this
"thing" that has to be born later.
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I have more important things
to do at the moment.
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- Megera, don't come here anymore.
- See how he's treating us?
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After the suppression
of the religious Orders,
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the breakup of the Sacred College
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and finally, after the infamous decree
usurping the temporal power of the Popes
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annexing the Papal States
to the empire of France,
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the Pope has decided
to excommunicate
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Napoleon,
his invading subjects
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- and those who take part in
their infamies. - Fair enough.
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Holiness, don't be deceived,
there will be retaliations,
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perhaps also against
your sacred person.
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We know it.
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My dear and true friends,
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there's just a little of you left
because of arrests, imprisonment and exile.
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And to you, who are few, helpless
and perhaps also inadequate,
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I have to commit, not the salvation of
my person, which doesn't matter to me,
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but the dignity and the honour
of the Church of Christ that I represent.
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You're going to take turns
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and guard the Quirinale nonstop.
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Each one of you will be
in command and responsible for that.
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- Are you ready?
- (Together) Yes!
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Prince Marcello of Valmontone.