General Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso OMS CMG MVM ( 1863 – 1938), was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life from 1914 to 1924
The play La Figlia Di Iorio is written in verse and has elements of local dialect, proverbs and traditional rhymes from Abruzzo. It tells the tragic story of the love between a young female outcast and a shepherd who is being married off to a woman he does not love.
The play was written in 33 days in the summer of 1903, while D’Annunzio was working on Halcyon. It premiered in 1904 at theTeatro Lirico in Milan, starring Irma Grammatica in the leading role. It was well received and has remained one of D’Annunzio’s most performed plays
D’Announzio, who just the previous year had created some of his lyrical masterpieces such as Halcyon, distanced himself from Eleonora Duse and fell into a spiral of luxury and debt. After the success of La Figlia di Iorio, he faced a brief period of creative and artistic difficulty.
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