Venice Preserved (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Otway, Thomas) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Venice Preserved The story of "Venice Preserved" is portly founded upon St. Real´s History of the Conspiracy of the Spaniards against the Republic of Venice, in 1618. Voltaire compares the author of this History to Sallust; and pronounces it superior to the English tragedy - an assertion, which, like many others from the same source, was the convenient sentence of an adroit but reckless ignorance. The merits of St. Real are undoubted}" great; but Otway´s indebtedness to him is exceedingly slight; and it is remarkable to see how ingeniously, from a few meagre historical details, the great dramatist has constructed one of the noblest imaginative works of which literature can boast. The names of nearly all the dramatis personae, with the exception of Belvidera, are taken from St. Real; but their characters are Otway´s, and his plot is almost wholly original. The true Pierre was a Norman corsair, who had accumulated a fortune by plundering ship? in the Mediterranean. He was eventually strangled on board his own ship by order of the Venetian Senate. Jaffier was of Provence, and appears to have engaged in the plot against the state from his friendship for Pierre, and the prospect of gain. History says nothing of his wrongs, or his love for the daughter of PriuLi; and he was shaken in his faith to the conspiracy, not by the tears of a woman, but partly by his detestation of the sanguinary speech of Renault (in which Otway follows the history), and partly from being struck with compunction daring the spectacle of the Doge´s wedding the Adriatic, when his imagination contrasted the public rejoicings with the desolation which was to follow. About the Publisher 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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