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Faustus, walking briskly, enters his study, where Mephistophiles is lying on an oriental chaise. Faustus is reading aloud from an opened royal missive. A silky ribbon, bestrewn its wax seal, trails conspicuously, flirtatiously.***The image is an etching of Charles V (Carlos of Spain), the Holy Roman Emperor during Faustus’s lifetime.Charles, a cosmopolitan emperor, famously said: “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”Music excerpt is Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 - from the album Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Love For 3 Oranges, Lieutenant Kijé with conductor Lorin Maazel & Orchestre National De L'ORTF