Plot
	• Astarte’s prophecy: “Tomorrow ends thine earthly ills” (2. 4. 152) • Abbot of St. Maurice suggests repentance and offers God’s forgiveness • Dark spirits arrive to claim Manfred’s soul • Manfred defies God and the spirits to die on his own terms—  “Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die” (3. 4. 151)