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Antonio Beccadelli of Bologna (c.1475-1513) was an Italian aristocrat, whose tragic love affair and secret marriage with Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, inspired several works of literature, most notably John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Lope de Vega's El mayordomo de la Duquesa Amalfi.
The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. [1] It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre , then later to a larger audience at The Globe , in 1613–1614.
The Duchess of Malfi is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the English seventeenth-century tragedy of the same name by John Webster. [1] He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo-American poet, W. H. Auden. [2] It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States. [2] In premiered in New ...
The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play, written by the English dramatist John Webster and first performed in 1614. The Duchess of Malfi may also refer to: The Duchess of Malfi, 1946, an adaptation by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht; The Duchess of Malfi, 1971, an opera in three acts by British composer Stephen Oliver
The rulers of Amalfi are the central figures in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi. The Dutch artist M. C. Escher produced a number of artworks of the Amalfi coast, [11] and Spike Milligan describes his time in Amalfi during a period of leave in the fourth part of his war memoirs, Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall. [12]
The Duchess of Malfi is an opera in three acts by the British composer Stephen Oliver, based on the eponymous play by John Webster.Oliver originally wrote this opera, his ninth in 1971, at age 21, for a production at the Oxford Playhouse on commission from the Oxford University Opera Club. [1]
Malfi may refer to: Amalfi, a town and comune in Italy; Duchy of Amalfi, an independent state centered on Amalfi during the 10th and 11th centuries; Ronald Malfi (born 1977), American novelist; Serena Malfi (born 1985), Italian operatic mezzosoprano
As far as I am aware is was never thought to be of Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, who was not 16 at the time. She died ten years before Raphael did, when Giulio Romano was about 11. It was thought to be Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Tagliacozzo the patron of the arts. The caption is just wrong.