The Soul-Giver/El Donador De Almas (Hispanic Literature) [Hardcover]

Amado Nervo (Author), Michael F. Capobianco (Translator), Gloria Schaffer Melendez (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0773482067 | ISBN-13: 978-0773482067 | Publication Date: February 1999

This is the first reliable version of Giraldi's sole comedy, "Gli Eudemoni" ("The Lucky Ones"), completed in 1549. A comedy after the manner of Terence, this edition reproduces the text of the autograph manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Communale at Ferrara. The five Acts of the play proper are preceded by a prologue, showing that, in all probability, it was intended for public performance; but there is some doubt as to whether the author ever in fact mounted a production of it. An interesting feature of this comedy is that it has some striking features in common with "Gli Antivalomeni", one of Giraldi's tragedies with a happy ending, performed at the court of Ferrara the previous year. However, the chief interest of the "Eudemoni" for the literary historians of today is the exent to which it illustrates the theories on comedy enunciated by the author in the contemporary "Discorso intorno al comporre delle comedie e delle tragedie", first published in 1554.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish
Original Language: Spanish

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773482067
• ISBN-13: 978-0773482067
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,498,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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