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| | Nini's La marescialla |
 | | The play, in turn, was built on historic foundations, the murder or execution in Paris of Concino Concini and his wife Leonora Galigai, the marescialla of the title, the power behind Maria de’Medici, the mother and Regent of the young Louis XIII. |
 | | Borgia has made common cause with the Count de Luynes to get rid of Concini but, on finding that Leonora is married to Concini, now wants to extricate her from the impending disaster. |
 | | In Act 2, despite pleas from Borgia and Leonora, Isabella is persuaded to testify against Leonora at her trial for witchcraft and there is a riveting scene between the two women at the trial when Isabella, after great torment, declares Leonora innocent. |
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