Dangerous Beauty Page #6

SHE MUST REPENT WITCHCRAF OR BE CONDEMNED.

SHE'S JUST BEGINNING,

YOUR GRACE.

PERHAPS SHE HEADS

IN THAT DIRECTION.

SENATOR,

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

THE CHURCH CANNOT DENY

HER RIGHT TO SEEK GOD'S MERCY.

THAT'S THE LAW.

CONFESSION IS SACROSANCT!

DO NOT INSTRUCT ME ON

THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH!

THEN I CALL UPON

THE DOGE TO DEMAND

THAT THE INQUISITION

ABIDE BY THEM!

[MURMURING]

IF CHRISTIAN MERCY

IS GONE,

THEN AT LEAST VENETIAN

JUSTICE STILL EXISTS.

I PRAY YOUR GRACE

HAS HEARD ENOUGH OF THIS.

IT DOES SEEM ODD, YOUR HOLINESS,

THAT THE HOLY MOTHER CHURCH

WOULD DENY:

A SINNER CONFESSION.

I SEE NO HARM:

IN HEARING HER.

SHE WILL SAVE:

OR DAMN HERSELF.

THE PRISONER HAS ALREADY

DAMNED HERSELF.

BUT IF IT PLEASES

THE ESTEEMED DOGE OF VENICE,

SHE MAY CONTINUE HER HERESY.

I CONFESS I FIND MORE ECSTASY

IN PASSION THAN IN PRAYER.

[MURMURING]

SUCH PASSION IS PRAYER.

I CONFESS...

I CONFESS I PRAY STILL

TO FEEL THE TOUCH

OF MY LOVER'S LIPS...

HIS HANDS UPON ME...

HIS ARMS ENFOLDING ME.

VERONICA, STOP!

SAVE YOURSELF,

PLEASE.

SUCH SURRENDER:

HAS BEEN MINE.

I CONFESS I HUNGER STILL

TO BE FILLED AND ENFLAMED.

TO MELT INTO:

THE DREAM OF US,

BEYOND:

THIS TROUBLED PLACE...

TO WHERE WE ARE:

NOT EVEN OURSELVES.

TO KNOW THAT ALWAYS, ALWAYS,

THIS IS MINE.

YOUR GRACE...

IS THIS NECESSARY?

SHE HOPES:

TO BEWITCH US ALL.

IF THIS HAD NOT BEEN MINE,

IF I HAD LIVED ANOTHER WAY,

A CHILD:

TO A HUSBAND'S WHIM,

MY SOUL HARDENED FROM LACK

OF TOUCH AND LACK OF LOVE,

I CONFESS SUCH:

ENDLESS DAYS AND NIGHTS

WOULD BE PUNISHMENT FAR GREATER

THAN ANY YOU CAN METE OUT.

ARE YOU FINISHED?

NO, YOUR GRACE.

YOU, ALL OF YOU,

YOU WHO HUNGER SO

FOR WHAT I GIVE,

BUT CANNOT BEAR TO SEE

SUCH POWER IN A WOMAN,

YOU CALL:

GOD'S GREATEST GIFT...

OURSELVES, OUR YEARNING,

OUR NEED TO LOVE,

YOU CALL IT FILTH AND SIN

AND HERESY.

ENOUGH.

ONE LAST TIME BEFORE

YOU ARE CONDEMNED.

DO YOU REPENT OR NOT?

I REPENT THERE WAS

NO OTHER WAY OPEN TO ME.

I DO NOT REPENT MY LIFE.

THEN, VERONICA FRANCO,

THE HOLY INQUISITION

HAS HEARD THE EVIDENCE

AGAINST YOU AND IS SATISFIED.

IN THE NAME OF THE POPE--

NO!

THERE IS MORE CONFESSION

TO BE HEARD!

IN THE NAME OF THE POPE--

I DEMAND THE SAME

RIGHT OF CONFESSION!

YOU ARE NOT ON TRIAL!

WE ARE STILL ON:

CONSECRATED GROUND.

I CONFESS I AM:

HER ACCOMPLICE.

[MURMURING]

IF SHE IS A WITCH, THEN

I AM DAMNED WITH HER.

DAMN ME BECAUSE:

I DO NOT REPENT.

I WILL NOT LIVE:

WITHOUT HER.

YOUR GRACE, THIS IS

A CYNICAL TRICK.

HE DOES THIS TO SAVE HER.

SHE'S A WITCH!

PROVEN AND CONVICTED,

THE DEVIL IN OUR MIDST,

AND I AM HER ACCOMPLICE!

CONDEMN ME IF YOU WILL,

BUT ARREST ME, TOO!

ARREST THE SENATOR OF

VENICE FOR WITCHCRAFT!

YOU THINK I SHRINK FROM

JUDGING THE RICH AND MIGHTY?

NO, I WELCOME IT.

I WAIT FOR THE SHACKLES.

HE SPEAKS WITH HIS HEART AND

NOT HIS HEAD, YOUR GRACE.

HE IS BLINDED:

BY HIS OWN LUST.

IF SHE IS A WITCH, THEN SO

IS EVERY WOMAN IN VENICE.

[LOUD CLAMOR]

SILENCE!

WE ARE A STRANGE CITY,

YOUR HOLINESS.

PERHAPS ACCURSED.

BUT PERHAPS WE LIVE IN

A PECULIAR STATE OF GRACE.

I AM NOT ALONE:

IN LOVING THIS WOMAN,

THOUGH I LOVE HER

FAR, FAR MORE THAN THEY.

WE ACCOMPLICES WERE MANY...

AND PROUD.

IF WE DO NOT SPEAK NOW,

IF VENICE:

DOES NOT STAND UP NOW

AND ACKNOWLEDGE WHO SHE IS,

THEN WE ARE ALL DAMNED.

NOT BEFORE THIS COURT.

BEFORE ETERNITY.

IF WHAT HE SAYS IS TRUE,

THEN YOU MUST SPEAK THE NAMES

OF YOUR ACCOMPLICES.

YOUR GRACE...

THE MEN WHO LOVED HER

WERE UNDER HER SPELL.

THEY HAD NO VOLITION.

SHALL WE PUNISH EVEN

THE VICTIMS OF HER EVIL?

IF THE SOUL OF THE CITY

IS CORRUP:

AND YOU HELP ME ROOT IT OUT,

I WILL SPARE YOUR LIFE.

I HAD NO ACCOMPLICES,

YOUR GRACE.

STAND.

STAND!

STAND!

ALL OF YOU WHO DEFILED

YOUR SACRED MARRIAGE BEDS

AND DECLARE YOUR SIN!

STAND UP WITH ME!

AS WE STOOD AGAINS OUR ENEMIES AT SEA!

THERE.

YOU SEE, YOUR GRACE?

THERE ARE:

NO ACCOMPLICES.

HE DOES THIS TO RESCUE

HER FROM YOUR JUSTICE.

THEN I STAND ALONE

FOR VENICE:

AND FOR THIS WOMAN.

ARREST THE SENATOR.

HIS TRIAL:

WILL COMMENCE TOMORROW.

MINISTER.

DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK?

I REPEAT, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING

TO SAY TO THIS COURT?

I AM STANDING.

YOUR GRACE.

PERHAPS THERE IS ANOTHER

WHO WOULD LIKE TO STAND.

PERHAPS WE'VE BEEN HASTY,

YOUR GRACE.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

WITCHCRAFT MAY BE

TOO HARSH A CHARGE.

[MURMURING]

IS EVERYTHING I HEARD

ABOUT THIS CITY TRUE?

SURELY THE HOLY INQUISITION

NEED NOT SULLY ITS HANDS

WITH A COMMON WHORE?

THIS IS A MATTER FOR

THE STATE, DON'T YOU THINK?

I LEAVE THIS WOMAN

TO VENICE...

WHICH RICHLY DESERVES HER.

[LOUD CLAMOR]

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