The Colony

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It is called l'Isola d'Amore The Island of Love.
The scene takes place in the Indies on an imaginary island. Young Indians who lay claim to the heart of Marine have set up a triumphal arch under which she must pass. The Governor tells her, without explaining the reason, that when one arrives on this island, one must marry at the end of two days or leave. This Governor is a foreigner, but one knows neither where he is from, nor why he is on this island, nor how he became its governor. He is simply in love with Marine, who arrived two days ago, and feels so honored that she chooses him for a spouse that he sends away the other Indians, loading them with mockery. Alone with Marine, he tells her that he once loved Bélinde, but that she is unfaithful to him, without saying how he knew it. Marine, in her turn, informs him that she loved Nardo, an unfortunate fisherman, and that they were in their little boat when the storm threw them onto these shores, where she supposes he perished. Moreover, there is no reason for the Governor to make such a choice. The action proceeds, as in The Colony, with very different dialogue, until the arrival of Bélinde. Then the stage changes; she appears saying: that she is running after her lover. Far from being frightened by the law about which Nardo speaks to her, she makes very flat jokes about it, and nevertheless proposes, quite indecently, that he pass for her husband. It is the same imbroglio confusion/plot entanglement as in The Colony, except that in l'Isola d'Amore, the Governor...