1:23:07
I kiss your hands and pray
the heavens above...
1:23:10
...be pleased to grant you
the boon you most desire.
1:23:14
You're very welcome.
1:23:16
But what has brought you
to this distant land?
1:23:20
I sailed to Cyprus
from Constantinople...
1:23:23
...and on to Venice
with a full laden ship.
1:23:25
Recalling though, a story which
has caused me some concern...
1:23:30
...and keen to see Naples...
1:23:32
...I left my minions there,
unloading fabrics...
1:23:34
...and as you see
have journeyed here...
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...to gaze upon this fair
and mighty city.
1:23:40
It is a mighty city,
and a fair one.
1:23:43
It is indeed.
1:23:45
My father, sir, like me
was once a Grecian merchant.
1:23:48
The trade he found paid best
was buying and selling slaves.
1:23:52
And so it chanced
that in Azteclias market...
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...he bought a boy, the fairest
Nature ever had created.
1:23:58
Camilo, how my heart
misgives me!
1:24:01
My father bought
the youngster...
1:24:03
...and took him home to rear him
with my sister and myself.
1:24:07
Forbear, friend!
1:24:09
Forbear, you tear my very soul!
1:24:12
Hook, line and sinker!
1:24:14
Did the young lad say
what was his name?
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Teodoro.
1:24:19
Heavens! Truth...
1:24:21
...rings so true!
1:24:23
I only need hear you,
and tears water these grey hairs.
1:24:27
So this all too handsome youth
and my sister Serpalitonia...
1:24:32
...being brought up together...
1:24:34
...were bound by bonds of love
from infancy.
1:24:37
And when they were sixteen,
and father absent...
1:24:40
...their passion took its course
with the result...
1:24:43
...that the result for her
was growing obvious.
1:24:46
Alarmed, Teodoro
disappeared...
1:24:48
...leaving Serpalitonia
near her time.
1:24:51
Catiborratos, my father,
died of grief no less.
1:24:56
We called the pretty child
Terimaconio...
1:24:59
...and reared him
in the city of Tepecas.