Giorgione. Isotta!
Isotta (fainter).Night, the Night!...
Giorgione.O stay!...
Isotta (in a fixed vision)It comes,
The Gondola! (as if to an unseen Presence) Row on, row on.
[She dies. He sinks beside her stricken and still.
Gigia enters.
Gigia. Messer Giorgione, one has come to say——
[Sees them, goes near and lifts Isotta's hand. Then, dropping it with terror.
The plague! the plague! Ah!
Giorgione (rising).Woman, is it true?
[Gigia flees.
(Mortally moved)
Isotta, this kiss then of all the kisses
That I have slain thee with will God who dwells
In universal chastity forgive.
[He kneels and presses his lips fervently to hers.
Curtain