Francesca Da Rimini - Softcover

D'Annunzio, Gabriele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1417902884 ISBN 13: 9781417902880

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2005

Synopsis

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Synopsis

1902 - From the Introduction: Francesca da Rimini was acted for the first time at Rome, by Eleonora Duse and her company, on December 9, 1901. Has there, since Hernani, been such a battle over a play in verse? The performance lasted five hours, and many of the speeches were inaudible on account of the noise in the theatre. Since then the play has been freely cut, it has been acted with the greatest success in the chief cities of Italy, and has raised more discussion than any play in verse of this century. The translation which follows has been made from the unabridged text. The play is written in blank verse, but blank verse so varied as to be almost a kind of vers libre. This form of blank verse is not new in Italian. It is to be found in the pastoral tragedies of the Renaissance in Tasso's Aminta, in Guarino's Pastor Fido. We need only open Leopardi to see almost exactly the same structure of verse.

About the Author

Gabriele D'Annunzio was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, and war hero, who went on to play a controversial role in Italian politics prior to the Fascist movement. J. G. Nichols is a poet and translator.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1417902884
• ISBN 13: 9781417902880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244