Excerpt from IL Barbiere Di Siviglia; The Barber of Seville: A Comic Opera, in Two Acts The Count Almaviva, desperately in love with Rosina, the ward of Doctor Bartolo, after serenading his mistress, encounters Figaro, the Barber and factotum of the town. 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.