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16 anything the writer has yet given us. Heretofore we have only had quiet, reflective, passive emotion: now we have a storm and sweep of passion for which we were quite unprepared. Ribera’s character is charged like a thunder-cloud with dramatic elements. Maria Rosa is the child of her father, fired at a flash, &quot; deaf, dumb, and blind &quot; at the touch of passion.

she asks;

and then the cry:

Again:

Exquisitely tender and refined are the love scenes—at the ball and in the garden—between the dashing prince-lover in search of his pleasure and the devoted girl with her heart in her eyes, on her lips, in her hand. Behind them, always like a tragic fate, the sombre figure of the Spagnoletto, and over all the glow and color and soul of Italy.

In 1881 appeared the translation of Heine’s poems and ballads, which was generally accepted