A lyrical verse drama set on a sunlit Naples terrace where love tests faith and family loyalty.
Porzia unfolds on a wedding day in sixteenth‑century Naples, blending romance, religious tension, and family rivalries. As artful dialogue collides with a gaze toward the heavens, the characters wrestle with devotion, desire, and duty against a backdrop of Inquisition and street‑side revelry. The book invites readers into a world of vivid imagery, passionate argument, and the fragile seam where private longing meets public consequence.
Ideal for readers who enjoy performance‑driven verse and historical drama that foregrounds love against conflict.
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Excerpt from Porzia
This last play, whose period is that of deca dent Humanism, or as Symonds prefers to call it, of The Catholic Reaction, is laid in Naples, where the passions of men, more than freed from the long domination of the Church and the Here after, seemed to reach in their grasp at this life almost incredible heights and depths of excess. And yet from amid this excess, as from a rank and unweeded garden, were springing into flower many seeds of modern intellectual enfran chisement, as the achievements of Bruno and his contemporaries witness.
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Excerpt from Porzia
Some years ago while writing "A Night In Avignon" the thought came to me of framing two other plays that should deal respectively with the Renaissance spirit at its height and decadence, as that play had dealt with it at its beginning. For the great human upheaval that came intoxicatingly to Italy during the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is so full of aesthetic contrast and glamor as to be peculiarly suitable for the doubly exacting purposes of poetic drama.
"Giorgione," the second of these plays to be written, was published in 1911 with three other plays in a volume entitled "The Immortal Lure," and like "A Night In Avignon" was received with such kindness as to encourage me to write the third, here presented under the name of "Porzia."
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book comprises four poetic dramas set in different periods and locations, exploring timeless themes of love, loss, and the human condition. The author, recognized as an accomplished poetic dramatist, captivates readers with vivid portrayals of pivotal moments in the lives of diverse characters. Through these dramas, the author delves into the complexities of human relationships, the pursuit of knowledge, and the search for meaning in a world often marked by suffering and injustice. By skillfully weaving historical and literary contexts into the narratives, the author invites readers to reflect on the enduring nature of human struggles and aspirations. Ultimately, this book offers profound insights into the complexities of the human experience, reminding us of our shared frailties, resilience, and capacity for both love and destruction. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331677888_0
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