Complex sentence: Alone, Erisso's daughter, Anna, contemplates her father's plight: "Ah! che invan su questo ciglio" ("Ah! In vain I call for sweet oblivion").
Split into simpler sentences: Alone, Erisso's daughter, Anna, contemplates her father's plight. Aria: "Ah! che invan su questo ciglio" ("Ah! In vain I call for sweet oblivion").