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Niccolo Machiavelli has recently returned home after being imprisoned and tortured under charges of conspiracy. He is a broken man and his wife, Marietta, is worried about him. She confides in their family friend and doctor, who advises Marietta to send for Niccolo's new mistress. As they talk, Marietta chops the head and feet off dead, plucked chickens.
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MARIETTA
He screams in the night, such screams as I’ve never heard come out of the mouth of a man. He screams like a woman laboring over a breech birth, just before she gives up the ghost. Then during the day, he says nothing, Doctore, he goes into his study, scribbles a few words, and then…he wanders off. Towards the chickens.
ALPHONSO
This is not like Niccolo. The
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