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Francesca Da Rimini
Contributor(s): D'Annunzio, Gabriele (Author), Symons, Arthur (Translator)

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 ISBN: 1163208035     ISBN-13: 9781163208038
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
OUR PRICE: $30.20  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - General
- History
- Music
Dewey: 852
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 9.02" W x 6" L (1.16 lbs) 244 pages
 
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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.
 
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