Excerpt from The Mascot: Comic Opera in Three Acts In the Third Act, the scene lies in the large hall of an Italian inn, in the duchy of Pisa. Soldiers of the Pisan army are carousing in honor of their recent victories, gained under the lead of Frederic, over the armies of Lorenzo. Pippo appears as a captain and friend of Frederic, and Bettina, as a young trooper, in which disguise she has fought through the war, as the companion of Pippo. They reveal their real names and persons to Frederic, and Pippo declares his ih tention to leave the army and marry Bettina at once. While the preparations are making for the wedding, Lorenzo, Fiametta and Rocco disguised as strolling minstrels, and wandering through the country to gain a living in their altered condition, resulting from the reverses of the war meet the bridal party at the inn - make tl em selves known to each other, and after pioper explanations on all sides, Fiametta goes back to her old lover, Frederic, and the wedding oi Bettina and Pippo IS celebrated with general reioicing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.