Sophonisba by Giovanni Giorgio Trissino
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"Sophonisba" by Giovanni Giorgio Trissino is a tragedy written between 1514 and 1515 and published in 1524. As the first regular tragedy in Italian literature to recreate the conventions of classical Greek drama, it tells the story of Sophonisba, a Carthaginian princess caught between political alliances and passionate love. When her husband is defeated in battle, she faces capture by the Romans until Massinissa, her former promised lover, offers marriage as salvation.
But Roman law threatens their union, forcing a tragic choice between honor and freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio, 1478-1550 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568 |
| Translator | Saint-Gelais, Mellin de, 1491-1558 |
| Title |
Sophonisba Tragedie tresexcellente, tant pour l'argument, que pour le poly langage et graves sentences dont elle est ornée |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_(Trissino) |
| Credits |
Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Tragedies (Drama) |
| Subject | Sophonisba, -203 B.C. -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 29279 |
| Release Date | Jun 30, 2009 |
| Last Update | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 343 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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