“I am called
The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my dominion never sets.”
Act I, sc. vi
Don Carlos (1787)
“The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows dark [elsewhere] the sun never sets.”
Altera figlia
Di quel monarca a cui
Nè anco, quando annotta, il Sol tramonta.
Il pastor fido (1590). On the marriage of the Duke of Savoy with Catherine of Austria.
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