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PART THREE

Sweet husband, get away

Get away from this world full of blood

where you saw dying Priam, my father.

Take our son Ascanio away

as far as possible

in places where the law of victory doesn't require that children should be snatched from their mothers and murdered.

I know you have been to Delos,

but remember that the god does not say and does not hide, he only indicates.

And what can he indicate that is not already within us, maybe the future?

Did you ask him about the future? Yes, the future.

Thank you, gods.

I ...

hate.

And if there is a god who avenges betrayed love, listen!

If despite his miserable guilt

the fate that accompanies it is ineluctable

and he will be able to reach that land he did not believe in

let him find a merciless war

that those struggles are fatal to his people and that they disperse them!

May an unfair peace be given to him after he is beaten!

may his son be taken from him!

May he wanders only in long intolerable exiles and may he beg for help!

and may he always remember the horrible torment of his people !

and may he die still young without burial, abandoned on an unknown beach!

Oh, Aeneas!

You are safe.

The gods are righteous if I can hug you after eight years

Aeneas ... comrade, friend.

Thus, after eight years the different paths they had traveled in exile rejoined.

They embraced their friend who was thought dead again crying

and the woman believed to be a slave.

For you women, now is the time to dare according to thoughts of hate.

To the ships!

Cassandra said "Trojan women, what are you waiting for?"

Do you want a better land than this?

Courage! Let's look for Troy here! Here is our home!

This is the end of the journey

The land you seek, Aeneas,

is far from here and still far away.

Now listen

If I, Eleno, see far away

if it is true that I am a prophet. if Apollo fills my soul with truth

you will see the places of hell

The land you seek is far from you,

it is a still distant land.

Yes, son , it is true, what you have always feared is true

Dido is dead, but you didn't kill her.

Yes father, I recognized the sign

yes I know, you are the one I have to find again

you must return to the sea

and that wouldn't be a lonely journey in search of secluded freedom without fame.

You are tired I know, but the time of your life does not belong to you

That's all your father can tell you.

Leave with whoever wants to follow you

and promise nothing to the young people of Aceste.

If they will come with you of their own free will, this will be another sign.

The bride of Jupiter watched them leave, measuring the force that opposed his designs.

Many days passed and Aeneas still did not give the order

to follow the flight of the seagulls announcing the nearby land.

At least yesterday we had sighted a land.

It has never reappeared.

This sea has wandering islands.

Fools! We are moving arround a continent

The lands that we see at times are promontories.

Ascanio wondered who he would meet first in his father's promised land.

That land was already a few weeks away

and it was the same one in which many years before,

a little girl had been brought to hear his future from the mouth of an oracle.

The girl's name was Lavinia

the one of his father, Latino.

Lavinia was now a girl on the eve of puberty

They have seen a foreign veil on the sea.

They saw shining their weapons.

They heard them singing at sunset.

They were voices of young people.

Have you seen the foreign ships with your own eyes?

they were pasturing the sheeps near the Circee rocks.

They were far offshore

I jumped on the horse ..

And where do you think they are now?

Still a long way from here.

They had a headwind.

Maybe they returned.

They have not returned.

The entrails of animals gave ominous auspices.

My horses have been bustling in the paddocks.

The stranger always brings misfortune

Stranger does not mean enemy.

But what are you afraid of? You should fear your fear.

A prince once lived with his people in the great swamps formed by our river...

up there, under the hills.

One day they all left but he said he would return bringing gifts and laws

this is the legend and Latino knows it.

That is why Latin will never allow to offend the foreign prince

who will find the mouth of our river and will go upstream with his ships.

That night they had approached the shore

Everyone slept on the boats

Only Palinuro kept watch.

Soon the day will began.

They will wake up and resume sailing.

But without me.

They will look for me for a while then they will cry for me.

Then they will say that the god Sleep, touching my forehead with a dripping branch of water from the Styx

closed my eyes and made me fall into the sea, asleep.

I have to leave them

Before many days pass, a great river will appear

and there they will stop forever.

And then Aeneas heard in memory

the words Dido had spoken to him long ago on the beach at Carthage.

"You spoke of a land of the sunset

and you talked about it like it never existed.

Well, I know of a land that the Greeks called Esperia

means "the land of the sunset"

because they discovered it sailing towards the setting sun.

My people also got to know it by sailing north

It has deep forests, waters and a large river that flows slowly to the sea.

It is the first one who can be encountered when going up the coast.

Tell that to your people.

You all come with me. Shall we abandon the ships?

If there are men around here, it would be unwise to meet them separately.

If there is anyone, they have already seen us.

So I want no one to stay away from me until I realize where we are.

If one came from the sea and left the ship at the mouth of the Scamander

one had to walk a long distance on a plain similar to that.

But the grass was taller and when the wind bent it it appeared clear in the perfect design of its walls...Troy ...

What a long way to escape its flames!

How much effort for the people who had followed him from so distant Asia..

The deserts of Thrace, Epirus, Africa

contenting themselves day by day of life itself

preparing in the folds of fortune

or surrender to misfortune as Miseno, as Beroe or Segesto, Enaute or his father.

and many of them remained along the way.

What debt had to be paid?

And how did the invocation come to mind?

"O, genius of the place, earth, mother of gods and you, nymphs,

you waters of the springs give me your mercy, welcome us "

The journey is finished. Finished forever.

From here we will not leave again.

Neither to look for other places nor to return to where we came from.

You might ask me why this place and not another, more or less at north

The other night Palinuro disappeared in the waves

and I understood that from that moment forward I will be left alone to choose for everyone.

And when I saw the mouth of this river which has a golden color I said:

"This is not a prodigy"

The land which is dragged by the water is very fertile.

I mean no heavenly sign advises us to stop here

Only these woods, these pastures, this land that promises crops and space and homes for all of us.

We must be sure that we will stay there.

That was the first time that Aeneas spoke to his companions.

Until that moment, no one had approached the foreigners.

They remembered the words of Aeneas:

"We don't know if this land will immediately give us a friendly welcome"

As the sun went down the fence mark was deeper and longer.

It was a bronze sword. I'll make you one of iron.

The name of that young man was Turno, the leader of the Rutuli.

He said that iron was owned only by a people beyond the river called Etruscan.

Aeneas wanted to know what was the name of the river and of the lands near it.

Tiber- was the answer-and this land is called Lazio.

In the language of our fathers Lazio means hiding place

It is said that a runaway god hid here.

Are you sure I won't use it against you?

I'm sure you are worth enough to use in a good way a good iron sword .

I want to make you a gift, too!

Tomorrow I will send you two heifers.

You can't go on living only from hunting.

That same day, Lavinia escaped her mother's surveillance

and went into the forest where she had a friend a fawn.

And Ascanio without saying anything to his father left the Trojan camp

to see if there was good hunting in the forest.

That lace was made for wild rabbits

That evening in Latino's house the women were working on pounding in large wooden mortars

the herbs choosed and picked from the fields.

and thus they drew juice to color the fibers of which were made their garments.

Don't put these leaves, or the green will come out too dark, almost black.

I told you.

I can't be careful, I don't feel like it.

Why don't you tell me a story?

A fairy tale? Yes.

Maybe always that one, right?

Alright then..

One day, in the great palace in the middle of the clouds where the gods live

the father of all gods told the youngest and most beautiful daughter he had

"Daughter-he said-

you have reached the age of having a husband

Many mortals ask you and I have already chosen a spouse.

He is no longer so young or even handsome but he knows the art of forging bronze weapons.

Sweats between bellows and anvils to temper the metal and makes the sacred mountain resound of blows. "

The young goddess, hearing the words of her father, replaces the tender childish games

and in her heart she hated the bridegroom to whom she was promised.

She had liked a shepherd even though he was a mortal man

He had seen him from the top of his father's palace.

Then she secretly descended from heaven and appeared to him as a rich girl.

But the shepherd because of the royal habit and bearing was afraid of her and ran away.

The lace of love, however, had grasped and hold him.

In fact, none of the men resist to a divine enchantment

I saw you in the forest

I am Lavinia, I don't know your name

There is no one in the house, it is empty and I was left alone.

I love my father very much,

and mother protects me and loves me.

But they both went into the forest with the servants and didn't came back.

so I'm alone, I'm the queen here

I want you to be my guest.

Come, sit on the throne my father abandoned.

When I was little they took me to an old man

who had a long beard and who said:

"your husband will come from afar, he will be a stranger"

You are the stranger who was supposed to come from the sea, are you?

Yes it's you.

And we will reign on this earth

and we will have a thousand oxen and horses and warriors and great sea boats.

And city.

Amata did not know that her daughter had seen Ascanio in the forest

but she understood anyhow that the arrival of the foreigners had sparked the girl's imagination.

then she wondered, too, how the Trojans and their leader Aeneas looked like.

Why do you have a fence around the pitch?

There are some dangerous animals around here.

besides this night I saw some fires.

They were signals.

Your arrival scared them.

Do I scare you, too?

Thus the gates of the camp opened for the first time.

This is for you.

Send someone over those hills.

There is a village, Laurento.

A good man lives there, his name is Latino.

We call him king but he is only an elder of great wisdom

His advises are right.

This is why we recognize him as the leader of all of us.

He is waiting for you.

I came to tell you that I have kept my promise.

And so it was decided to go to Laurento.

Lavinia had gone to play in the forest, that day too.

She was accompanied by Almone, son of Tiro, a boy who was her same age.

They saw a group of strangers bringing gifts.

The gifts were placed on the surrounding wall of Latino's palace

but for a long time no one appeared.

This, foreigners, was the temple of Pico Laurente

worthy of veneration for its woods and for the cult of ancestors

Here, according to the custom of the fathers

the leaders of our land sit at the sacred banquet and hold council.

Because here is the origin of our blood.

We are righteous, foreigners.

We are righteous because such were the fathers and we love their virtue.

And now you say who are you, where do you come from?

You will speak in the presence of me and of Amata, my wife.

Later, as a flock scattered by an unknown cry comes to life and reunites in the familiar pasture

the people of Laurento gathered in the courtyard of Latino's house

and it was brought the food that the custom of the place was required for the guests.

Travelers, fugitives, slaves without a master.

Men expelled from their homeland told some things.

Who knows if these things were true or at least how true.

Many said that there had been a war in the world

that a great city was under siege

they said it was a city with a thousand stones

His enemies had a thousand ships

But where?

This was difficult to understand.

Where is Asia?

From which sea or from which mountain does the disc of the sun arise every day?

That war was where the disc of the sun was born ?

The city did not have a thousand towers but it lasted for ten years

The enemies didn't have a thousand ships

but they were fierce warriors from the unicity of Greece

A thought troubled Latino

He wondered if Aeneas had arrived in Lazio with those few men

or if an army followed him with secret intentions of conquest as some believed.

As you said Aeneas, you lived for ten years in the war and for eight years in defense from the dangers of travel.

What do you think, will he be able to live in peace?

We are not supplicating a single thing, we ask hospitality.

Many peoples have offered to welcome us to their land

but Aeneas did not want to stop

The gods will envy us the good fortune to have us as neighbors those who remain of a noble people are world famous.

The peace is shadow, the peace is silence

The singers do not celebrate those who take their people away from war

Stranger, answer me:

you think this: that Aeneas will accept the sacrifice of giving up warrior fame?

The intentions of Aeneas are intentions of peace

Ours are intentions of peace

Ours are intentions of peace.

I don't reject the gifts and I believe you

but tell Aeneas that if he wants to be our friend, he must come personally to ask for it.

Latins and Trojans will be brothers when I have touched Aeneas's right hand.

This is what the rite wants.

Aeneas had remained in the field.

He was waiting for Latino's answer

Enea!

Latino sends you this horse to exchange the gifts we have brought them!

So as you can see we were welcomed in peace!

He have given us even two goats..

This is the first step towards a peaceful life, son

but don't feel free yet from your engagement with your people.

Remember the words of Anchises, the man from whom I generated you.

The time of your life does not belong to you.

Your desire to marry here gives you more security than the gifts of peace we have received from the Latins.

Thank you.

Thus each of us is happy.

You will be beyond this day.

Aeneas, look!

If they still get close let's invite them to get into the camp.

Yes sure.

The souls are celebrating

For the first time, Trojans and Latins take a closer look.

Why do you go away, Aeneas?

Why right now?

I am Lavinia, daughter of Latino and Amata.

Hail to you, Lavinia. But is your house empty?

They went to see the foreigners.

Aren't you going?

The foreigners must come and see me.

Sure, you're sitting on the throne like a queen.

What's your name ? Lavinia!

My name is Enea.

Enea!

I thank you for the gifts you sent me and for accepting mine.

Accept now the hospitality of this house and tell me if there is anything else I can give you.

Some land.

They told me you already took it.

I only built a fence to give shelter to my people.

Now I need some land to farm.

Yes, I understand, we will give you the land.

Good land for plughing.

But you have to pay it. It's fair.

You will give us half of the second crop

and then half of the half of the third crop

and so on for seven years.

In the eighth year the land will be yours.

It seems to me a reasonable price.

It is the custom of this country

Every custom of this country will become our custom.

There is someone who is afraid of the contrary

that your people will bring here foreign customs that will change our lives

You wanted to meet me for warning me of this?

No

The stranger's voice reached Amata in her rooms.

She would like to hear him closely.

I wanted you to know that this land has been lying for a very long time now

as in the sleep of a long expectation

Your people said you're here for the promise of an oracle.

A promise was made to us, too

When you entered the river with the ships and stopped only at the rapids

approaching us in the plain

then I thought our expectation was over.

I understand your silence

You were hoping that I could tell you more.

But this land that you have chosen will answer you, I am sure, Aeneas.

Up the great valley you will find someone who knows much more than me

Ascanio

Tomorrow I'll do a recognition around here

I'll be away a few days. I'll come with you!

No, Ascanio. Why not?

There may be dangers! Please, I'll serve you!

No, there won't be danger. You stay, you will be more useful here!

When will you believe me grown up enough to walk by your side?

Many times during the journey I have seen you leave us

Each time I hoped you would call me.

Yes, you're right, I should have done it

but this long journey is now over.

And now I just have to watch you become a man. A leader.

One day I'll be the one who will ask you to be by your side.

You see, Ascanio maybe that my mission is about to end too, and yours is beginning.

Try to be a good leader for these guys

When they left the fields of Aceste they thought they were following me.

They followed you, actually.

The name of this land is Lazio

Latino had told him: after you will cross the plain

you will arrive to where the seven hills block the current of the river

on the highest hill you will see a temple

Up there lives a man.

Remember his name: Evandro

He is a Greek

He was king of Arcadia

For many years he has lived among us you have to talk with him.

That man seemed that he was waiting for him.

He invited him to come in, to rest and he gave him food without asking his name.

I immediately saw something familiar in you

perhaps the resemblance to your father.

When I met Anchises, he was your age.

Give me your hand as a sign of that ancient friendship - Evandro continued

-and tell me what events have pushed you so far from your homeland.

The land of your fathers

I have reflected on your words of this night, Aeneas

and I understand why king Latino advised you to come to me.

I will try how I can to help you in your search.

Nobody knows the truth, but this land is full of sweetness.

It is the river itself that carries it and the caves and woods only multiply it.

I will tell you everything I have come to know about the origins of your lineage

in these years of exile and loneliness.

I learned this from pastors, priests, magicians.

Here is the sacred hill

These places are said to have been the refuge of the god Saturn

the god who left Olympus to live among the mortals

Legend has it that here he would have found a people, they were fauns and nymphs

they were like beasts

They lived there in the mountains, they knew nothing but hunting.

Saturn would reunite them, he would give them wise laws and rules of life.

And so came the golden age, of the trust, of abundance.

But did the golden age, the age of just government, really existed?

If we could understand these signs engraved on the stone, these hands that hold unknown objects..

maybe we would have an answer.

But it is certain that it ended, the legend itself says so

and there was discord and violence.

Here , other peoples would have come then.

They would have mixed with the descendants of Saturn, up to Dardanus.

The one that you Trojans call the father of your lineage

escaped to the east, in Asia to found your city.

I believe what drove your father Dardano so far from here

it was the hope of finding a land of peace and justice

and you Aeneas, you went the opposite way, but with the same hope.

You are looking for a peaceful hidden land

But you really have to find this land.

Don't you believe that peace, the just laws are within us, wherever the gods command us to live?

The night fell on the land of Evandro.

Think of our son, Aeneas

Our happiness is important,

but the future that was read in Ascanio's life is even more important.

You said it.

Don't you remember the wish made when he was born? The fate announced for him?

He will be a king, his kingdom will never end,

He will see a new law of peace and new justice will flourish among his people.

The brother will take the murderous hand from his brother

the swords will be melted back into plows.

The furies that now dominates and persecute the righteous peoples in every land will be defeat.

Do you believe that the land of the sunset exists beyond this sea?

Tell me, oracle, if this anxiety that torments me is right or unfair in front of the gods?

Oracle of Apollo, god of the roads

Tell me if it is true that the setting sun indicates me the land

where, meeting people different from us, we will have the result I want?

Oracle of Apollo, tell me where will be the place in which my and my people's destiny be fulfilled?

Look for the land from which you originate

The ancient mother is ready to welcome you.

Then, the moment she realized that Aeneas is far away, the goddess Juno descends into the house of the king Latino.

He knows that Amata in his heart has already promised his daughter Lavinia in marriage to Turno

and she hates the oracle that one day announced a foreign wedding.

To her the goddess puts a snake in her chest

and the intimate heart insinuates it

Why are you still watching, Latino?

I woke up with a start and saw ...

I saw the stranger today, the Trojan Aeneas.

But what are you meditating, you want to offer him your daughter?

I threw a snake into your heart

and it slipped between your soft chest and your garment.

I know the voices you listen.

Which wanders hissing

I remember the prophecy of Faun!

"You will give your daughter to a foreigner"

To whom, to Aeneas?

To this female thief who sneaks into our house like a snake?

And who, at the first breath of wind, will flee to the sea, taking our daughter away?

it circles on your neck, belt on your dress

It weaves around your hair and crawls over your body

your breath already breathes the plague ...

My creature, wake up!

Here we go!

There was already in the women of Laurento an unspeakable and obscure anxiety,

because of the presence of those foreign men.

And Amata thought of making that anxiety a definite hatred

She called them all, simulated to be possessed by Dionyso,

She said she wanted to dedicate the vineyard to him to take away the abhorred wedding with the Trojans.

The rite produced its effects

The wine accepted as blood exhausted the body and mind of those women.

Trojan blood will be Lavinia's dowry

Death watches over his wedding.

Dyonisso, my daughter ... my daughter may belong to no one!

I give her to you so that you protect her from prophecy and from the contamination of foreigners.

They bring evil!

Let them make mistakes and be destroyed before they trample more land!

May their name be distroyed!

What are you doing?

I want to go hunting, Acate. Would you come too?

Neither I, nor you, Ascanio. Why not?

Aeneas does not want to. Aeneas is not here.

No, don't go, it's not safe.

What are you afraid of?

My daughter ... may she belongs to no one!

Come, too!

Turno!

What have you got, what happened?

What happened?

Turno ...

It's me, your sister Giuturna.

What's going on with you?

A pain, an excruciating pain

As if a vulture devoured me.

To save myself I ran into the forest.

You're better now.

Is it true that you are better, Turno?

Yes, better. Thus, Giuturna lies to her brother.

Giuturna now knows.

She knows that her brother cannot heal.

She knows that the burning torch sunk in his chest is the same one that is about to strike the Latins

Giuturna now knows what the goddess wants

that Turno suffers enough to wish another'man death

or his own.

My weapons? Where are my weapons?

Where am I?

My weapons?

They had grown up together, Turno and Giuturna They have lost their parents since childhood.

It was said in the land of the Rutuli that the young Giuturna had been the bride of a god.

and that she couldn't have another wedding.

The love for her brother consoled her sacred and unhappy solitude.

What happened?

I do not remember anything.

Nothing happened, nothing that I can't reveal to you.

You have to be strong and wise.

Many things that will happen to provoke your wrath are wanted by the gods.

I see .. I see a boy advancing in the forest

He is not a shepherd.

It's not because no one in our people is dressed in white

He grabs a trojan bow

He didn't know, he couldn't know that the fawn ...

Lavinia ... I see that her eyes are swollen with tears

But the young foreigner had no bad intentions

He didn't know he was giving Latino's daughter her first pain.

With her there is another guy and he is of our people

He calls our Latins

No, not him! The cruel goddess mercilessly awaits the moment to harm

Other men come running

They are dressed in white too.

Here ... they fight

Why?

They do not know each other,

they do not divide ancient disputes in recent months.

Why do they strike each other so blindly?

At the same time they brought the body of a boy to Latino's house

The news went from house to house

from one field to another

Already the horns of the shepherds rang out in the mountains

They killed Lavinia's fawn, it was said

there was a quarrel between Latins and Trojans in the forest because of that deer

Someone hit the boy

but no one knew why and who hit him.

The boy was Almone, Lavinia's playmate.

Latino looked astonished the killed boy.

like a rock assailed by the sea in a storm

he was traversed together by pain and by fear of imminent evils.

He saw in the eyes of Amata the dark madness of the foreseen events

Already he heard coming the Latin warriors

the cries of revenge mingled with the wailing of women

They spent the night watching over the body of Almone

The oath of vengeance was pronounced

and that cry reached the wings of darkness to the Trojan camp.

You will protect Ascanio's life, his father is far away.

The peace we hoped for is over.

It's my fault.

The time came to leave Evandro

Aeneas had to return to his own

But once again he looked at the beautiful valley

Here is my son

It is called Pallante, from the name of the temple built by Dardano.

He will accompany you with the other young people on the way back to the river

You don't need a guide but being your companion will be a great honor for him.

I also have a son, he is roughly your age.

He will be happy to have a new comrade.

The fault is mine alone

I didn't have to go hunting, I didn't have to disobey my father.

And your father was not supposed to go away

If I didn't kill that deer the Latins would still be at peace with us.

What nonsense, you are such a child

Nothing ever happens that is not part of a fate

that we cannot understand.

Euryalus's mother, the only mother of the Trojan camp, took care of the youngest

They were all his children.

The great friendship that bound his son Eurialo to Niso

gave her certainty for the future.

She did not know, the unhappy one,

that this very friendship would have been fatal to both of them.

A deceptive calm was in the field.

After the brawl in the forest, no Latin was seen anymore

Pallante and his friends who accompanied Aeneas

were only young shepherds but Aeneas thought he had never had such a secure escort.

A great peace was in him.

Cross the sea.

I would like this.

I have always lived among these hills on this river.

I will die without having seen anything.

Why don't you give to Ascanio the weapons you fought with?

Ascanio has chosen others.

I wish I could honor them as you have honored them.

Listen, I give you these weapons as a sign of friendship, Pallante

but I hope you don't have to use them against anyone.

The river was the border between the lands of Evandro and those of Latino

It was there that Pallante and his friends were to leave Aeneas

But Evandro's son decided otherwise.

For now they don't come close. Open up!

That same day for the first time the Latins appeared around the Trojan camp

The patrols returned restlessly.

Fear is the absence of Aeneas numb the Trojan minds.

Killing Aeneas, this we must do.

And if you lack the courage, Turno, I will do it.

You dare to speak of killing, Mesentius, of killing a righteous man.

If Aeneas is right, I let the gods judge him.

I don't care and I don't believe in the gods.

Aeneas has done me the greatest disservice

By his fault I was kicked out of my land.

That righteous man... went up the valley in search of Evandro, another righteous man..

He had entered my land on horseback without asking permission to anyone

and he ran into a condemned man who paid the price because he rebelled against me

He was tied alive to a corpse, the way it is the punishment of traitors.

I wanted him to fully enjoy the taste of death that he wanted to give me, his leader.

Set me free.

That man is a traitor, he led a revolt against me!

I told him :

you are a foreigner and perhaps you do not know that I make the law in this land!

and whoever disobeys my laws dies, you are condemned, too!

Your laws ...

they go against an older, greater law

and this law condemns you

From those stupid words my downfall was born.

If you hadn't given us hospitality we would be like two hungry beasts!

My son and I, Mesenzio.

Take care of your life in this house and do not bring us evil in return.

Trojans! Trojans!

Come out of your shelters!

Come out!

Do not remain closed like a flock!

Wasn't a ten-year siege enough for you?

Or do you think you can shed the blood of one of us without paying the price?

Come out raiders of Asia, show your courage!

Remember which is the order of Aeneas, do not throw first!

Don't be provoked by words!

Or do you think we are inferior to the Greeks who defeated you?

But we are not afraid of Asian females

Yes females with perfumed hair and a double tongue

This is what you are!

Where is your Aeneas, he is afraid to show himself

or that coward has once again escaped running?

Where is that madman who led you to die here?

Numano was his name.

Your obscure death was decreed only for this,

so that another death be hasten.

The words of the drunk Mesenzio are worth your last breath.

You must forget what you did, Ascanio

Enea! Enea!

Why did you kill him?

why so ... among the Latins

Get him!

Get him!

Don't kill him!

Where are you?

Don't let him escape!

Latins, go!

You paint the wall of your house with carmine, Giuturna.

Carmine is the color of blood.

Do you know what the women in the fields say?

That foreigners will enslave us

They will force us to work for them.

They want to kill our children and our husbands.

and after killing them they will mix their race with ours.

People entered Latino's house

they want him to open the doors of war but Latino refuses

And your brother ?

Does he also fear foreigners?

I arrived too late

I made them go back to Laurento but more blood had already been shed.

I want that blood to bring more blood, Giuturna.

I will be there where other lives will be scattered in the wind

I will see again the ash scattered in mourning.

and your women wrapped in the white veil of pain.

I will do what I can to make Latins and Trojans unite their life with death

in order that the war destroys the seed of Trojan in Lazio

so that the lineage destined to dominate the world may never be born there

to enslave Greece, which is dear to me,

the race that will destroy Carthage, the city that I protect.

You who can hear my voice, listen!

I oppose that fate and will use every mean

Have you seen Euryalus? Now he doesn't even come at night.

Aeneas must be warned in any way.

If you have the courage to try, come with me

I will try to go out tonight.

Niso, why are you asking me if I have courage?

So don't tell your mother. No, don't worry.

I don't know, sons. I don't know if I can allow.

Ascanio. They want to go out to find your father

You tell them, it's a risk.

Yes it is true that it is a risk and yet, it is necessary to face it.

And then we are in two. The night will help us.

And we know these woods very well.

But do you think you can find him? Yes.

This is the best moment to leave the camp.

But to enter the woods, wait for dawn when sleep is deeper in the bivouacs.

Thank you friends.

How much I would like to be in your place but I promised not to leave the camp.

Please, Ascanio, warn my mother.

I don't have the courage.

So the two friends go into the night shadow.

They carry messages for Aeneas

But the wind will disperse them, entrusting them to the clouds

because the fires that glow in the dark guard Latins immersed in sleep

and ignite in the two boys, along with a terrible memory of their childhood

an insane desire to kill.

It was Niso who said "We killed enough"

He realized that the massacre and the thirst for blood had been too great.

Don't split up!

Fear deceives you.

You lose your way.

Eurialo!

Niso, you have already escaped the enemies!

Save yourself at least!

Leave that boy!

I've kill them! Euryalo is innocent!

Leave him!

Soon, everyone runs to his place.

Lead the women to shelter.

Euryalo! My son is back!

Euryalo! No, don't get close.

The women, stand back.

Don't pull, wait for the order

Don't pull.

Eurialo!

I had worked day and night to make you a robe

I won't neither cover your body

nor close your eyes...

"Don't be afraid, Ascanio" said then the destiny

"Your father is now near the Trojan camp

There is only one last stretch of forest that divides it from you.

Do not fear for him even if the forest is full of pitfalls and useless fears.

The forest has separated forever your friends Euryalus and Niso.

The forest offers itself as a refuge and salvation, yet it is the kingdom of death

But don't be afraid, your father's fate is like the forest, full of intricate errors.

Remember what I told you in Carthage

The pains of men do not interest me

Destiny is like the flood of a great river

who cuts down an entire forest to bring a seed to its suitable soil.

Stop, Aeneas!

Did you think you didn't see me anymore?

Look at him son, the defender of traitors!

Lauso!

I make this vow:

that no one will come to bury those who have dishonored me!

You will be the food of dogs and vultures!

Who are you, boy?

His son..

the law of honor

forced me to die ...

even if he threw the honor away for a long time...

But he was my father ...

Lauso ...

Lauso ..

My son..

Camilla was her name.

She had not yet met the man

Now she went into the forest looking for the prey

She had offered Turno her infallible huntress bow.

That young stranger carried Trojan weapons

Camilla spied on him for a long time

This is the sign of what awaits you in the camp you have left for so many days

You who are my son, for the sake of what unites

you who have sought the source and found the wisdom,

you who have understood that peace and war are equal mothers to all the beings

accept all contrariety , as the fate that you wanted and deserved

and firmly guide this expedition to its extreme end.

Then you will eventually be able to rest and perhaps find me again

the one who I am at the bottom of everything.

My son was devoured by birds and dogs.

Deliver to me this unfortunate young man.

I'll wash his wounds. I will compose him for the eternal sleep.

He is my son, too.

If I am guilty of these calamities, the assembly will declare it

and it will judge me guilty of having given hospitality to foreigners

who have come up here accompanied by many heavenly signs.

And will make the decision for me that I read in your souls.

You want to starve yourselves, kill one by one

Listen to me, Latins!

Listen to me again!

before anger or the desire for revenge gives you false advice

Perhaps those heavenly signs have deceived us

I will go to Aeneas, I will humble myself.

I will confess my mistake.

I will tell him to continue his research elsewhere

The Saturnian land he believes he has found is not this.

Latino, I don't think you've been deceived,

even if ...

even if I don't know what fact had pushed Aeneas the Trojan towards our country.

And what destiny wants our blood to fecundate his enterprise.

But since I see, too, this unstoppable slaughter,

I have a better proposal for you:

Sent ambassadors to Aeneas to tell him that Turo, only Turno will fight with him in a duel.

We will fight according to the customs and habits transmitted to us by the fathers.

Which one of us remains alive will decide the dispute.

The assembly decides on what I have said.

They buried Pallante and Camilla in the same grave

respecting the funeral custom of the Latins

It was then that the Latin messengers arrived

What do you want to believe in my desire for peace?

Do you want my son as a hostage, myself?

We don't want hostages.

The Latins propose a duel.

Turno will fight in the name of Latins.

You will fight in the name of the Trojans.

These are the agreements that I propose to Latino, by accepting the duel.

If he consider them right, they will be sworn.

Go.

Ascanio,

I wanted you to know the conditions of the duel

If I'll be the one to die ...

I will not allow anyone to kill you!

You must face your fate as a man and return to Aceste

My death will mean that the land of Aceste was the one destined for us.

but if I will win, projects for the future that are only partially contained in the peace pacts

I want you to know my thoughts thoroughly

and that you declare your consent from now on.

Here, in front of the altar of the penates

I want the words I tell you to become yours

The Latins will not change neither their name, nor customs nor gods

The Latins will not change neither their name, nor customs nor gods

Latino will retain power over things

about things

he will have command in peace and war as long as he lives

as long as he lives

And after him, his descendants

because I want to believe that this is the land of our fathers

and therefore we must live here. And be Latin.

Troy is dead. Let his name fall too.

I understood.

The penates we saved from the burning city

and who have now witnessed my will and your promise

you will bury in this land.

The dawn of the day set for the fight came

Don't scold me, sister,

but don't even praise me.

I fight for the others

because this useless quarrel ends, it is true

but there is also another truth.

I have been appointed to measure

the right of Aeneas to own this land from the beginning.

You remember the strange illness that took me that day.

You said it was a sign.

And then Mesenzio.

Why did he come to take refuge in my house?

Why did he send me to the Trojan camp?

In this way the gods wanted me to propose the duel.

For the earth, for the sea, for the stars, for the children of Latona, Apollo and Diana.

by the strength of the infernal gods

listen to me, supreme father

who establish the pacts with lightning

The Trojan Aeneas and the Latin Turno accept this pact

if Turno wins, the losers will withdraw from our country

If Aeneas kills Turno

our two peoples will unite and have eternal covenants and equal laws

the Trojans will be able to build a new city and give it the name Lavinia

I touch the altar I invoke this fire as a witness

proclaiming that these are the facts we have sworn here.

It's the end, Amata!

Latins, shame!

Turno!

Turno!

I see

a flock of swans flying low over the water

an eagle ... an eagle falls on them

It's the eagle of Jupiter

and grabs a swan with its claws and flies away.

But the swans reverse their flight

tight together, they are the white cloud

they chase the eagle

the eagle leaves its prey, surrenders and disappears into the sky.

Do you understand what that means, Latins?

they fight one next to the other

The bulls are injured by bathing their neck and shoulders with a lot of blood

The wailing is silent in terror

Giuturna

Save him!

As when a languid quiet has closed our eyes

you seem to want to run ... run at breakneck speed

In the midst of our efforts we collaps

deprived of words and voice.

Jupiter suspended two platter of the balance

I can't do anything for you anymore, you know.

My heart wishes that Turno kills Aeneas

so that the Trojan race is dispersed

and the future does not see Lazio as a superb dominating city

If Turno will die, my battle will be lost forever

the cities that honor me will be subjected to the law of Rome

Here my power ends.

The decision depends on two men

they are now the gods.

Shame on you, Latins!

Let one die for all of you!

He who dies will become immortal!

He will be honored on the altars.

He will always be alive in everyone's memory!

but we, all over the country will be forced to obey a master!

We have sworn an unfair pact!

We have sworn an unfair pact!

Our life for that of Turno!

Our life for that of Turno!

Where are you running sister, why do you still oppose?

Is dying really such a serious misfortune?

Thus it was established, Aeneas.

You wanted him to be your friend

and he turned into an enemy to kill.

Thus it was established, son.

Father Jupiter said:

Aeneas will have to give laws until three winters will pass since his victory.

Then it will be Ascanio who will reign for 30 years

and 300 years his descendants in an infinite lineage.

Three winters must pass for you

and then which will be your peace, son?

The Aeneid is an unfinished poem.

It was interrupted by the death of Virgil

which took place in Brindisi in the year 19 before the birth of Christ

the eleventh day before the calends of October.

The end of Aeneas is hidden by legend.

Tradition has it that he remained on the banks of the Tiber

becoming through the centuries and generations the ideal ancestor of the Roman lineage

However, traces of other legends remain

according to which he would wander the seas... alone.