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to the noble and wise man, Federicus Bembo, by his commission Podestà and Captain of Mestre, Fid. Dil. Sal. et Dil. Aff. [Fideli dilecto salutem et dilectionis affectum.]
Seeing that the Austrian troops now coming down from Friuli are about to enter the Trevisan province, to which some of the French troops may also move, and it being according to the zealous forethought of the government to remove all inducements which give individuals of the troops the desire to come still nearer to these lagoons, the Council of Ten, considering that one inducement might be the reopening of the theatre, orders you to put it off as long as may seem best to the prudence of the Heads of the said Council.
Given in our Ducal Palace on the twenty-seventh of September in the fifteenth year of the Indiction, 1796. [I find that the year of the Indiction does not correspond with the date.]
There was another magistracy which also had to do with the theatres. The ‘Provveditori di Commun’
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fixed the price of the libretto of the play. It was Council of Ten, however, that named the hour at which the performance was to begin and end.
The lighting of the theatres was wretched and the boxes were completely dark, which appears to have
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