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Lambs of god: an end of human sacrifice

2016; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 29; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1047759400072135

2331-5709

Brent D. Shaw,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

Ferrando: … e si rinvenne mal spenta brace… e d’un bambino, ahimè l’ossame bruciato a mezzo, fumante ancor! Uomini: Ah scellerata! Oh donna infame! Del par m’investe ira ed orror! Il Trovatore . Act I, Scene 1 In certain modern sensibilities, played upon here by Verdi's librettist Salvadore Cammarano, infant sacrifice has tended to rouse a basal sense of horror. The moral outrage has usually imputed alien rites and the evils of dreadful barbaric practices. Consider the following descriptions not about the fictions of an imaginary Iberian court, but rather of an actual historical practice.