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Brian Donaghey wrote: > >> Well, John, we might have done if we thought it was going to be about the > >> Theophilus who was a kind of medieval proto-Dr Faustus--and the special > >> effects as he worked miracles and was then dragged off to hell were > >> spectacular enough! and John Parsons added: > But wasn't he saved by the intervention of the BVM? At least isn't that > the version carved on one of the Notre-Dame portals in Paris? What a spendid Mozart opera that would make: a combination of Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, with a touch of Figaro thrown in. Wherever he is now, Mozart's librettist Da Ponte must be kicking himself that he didn't think of it :-) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%