"Let’s drink on a rich stay in Florence."Orlando too raised his cup. "Let’s drink on our corago." And then he added: "I owe you an apology, Chiara, for what I said when we first met.""No apology needed, Orlando. I’m glad that you are one of us.""May I ask whether today’s purse was exceptionally large?""Oh no," laughed Alda. "In fact, it was rather on the small side."His expression clearly showed that he did not believe her."True, Orlando, in Siena, and even Monte Pulciano, we got thirty florins several times." * * * Within a few days, they had half a dozen invitations. Chiara was keen to try out Sophocles’ Electra, the Greek tragedy she had translated from the Latin. They began rehearsals. She quickly discovered that its staging presented a number of challenges. While the ancient Greeks used no more that three actors, who changed masks to impersonate different characters, she did not want to use masks. Similarly, she had no choice but to replace the Greek chorus that consisted of a dozen or more voices by at most three, the three players not used in a given scene.
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