Antonelli and Gasparo

Question 1

Lodovico’s exile

Finish each other’s lines - voice of Ludovico’s conscience - reinforced by morally didactic couplet at the end
2 good v 1 bad

Answer 1

‘being sick with such unnatural and horrid physic, vomit you up i’th’ kennel. || All the damnable degrees of drinking…’

Question 2

Lodovico’s exile

nobility being illegitimate power bc of corruption and corrupting all of society

Answer 2

‘being sick with such unnatural and horrid physic, vomit you up i’th’ kennel’ (G)

Question 3

Lodovico’s exile

Astronomical imagery - perceived as ill omen
Inevitable rise and fall of great men and woman, but presents lack of hope for moral future - ‘idle’

Answer 3

‘an idle meteor’

Question 4

Lodovico’s exile

injustice of legal system therefore it cannot function to deter further crimes

Answer 4

‘not ever to steep violent sins in blood’

Question 5

Lodovico’s exile

Medicine of dead flesh - thought to produce excellent results
Mummia is representative of aristocracy - ppl thought that if they replicated the behaviour of nobility, they’d be prosperous but hard to swallow bc it’s immoral - they end up poisoned and diseased = diseased society

Answer 5

‘your followers have swallowed you up like mummia’

Question 6

Gasparo and Lodovico performing the ‘last rites’ for Bracciano

Gasp and Lodo share lines like A+G do in A1S1 - there it presented a moral conscience/voice - but now Gasp shares lines with Lodo - presents how no one is immune to poisoned society and what seems good is not bc true goodness does not exist - links to Lodo not believing Monti’s words condemning revenge
LINK - PL - Eve is the opposite - takes everything at face value - ‘into fraud led Eve, our credulous mother’ - deceit from God - told A+E they were in paradise where there is only goodness

Answer 6

‘devil Bracciano. Thou art damned || perpetually’