Frances Burney (1776–1828)
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Frances Burney was an English playwright and governess, named for her famous aunt.
Frontispiece and title page of neoclassicist Vincenzo Monti's tragedy Aristodemo (Parma, 1786), a translation of which was included in Burney's Tragic Dramas
Vincenzo Monti
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Vincenzo Monti was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian Neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the Iliad is considere
Frances Burney (1776–1828)
…privately printed Tragic dramas; chiefly intended for representation in private families: to which is added, Aristodemus, a tragedy, from the Italian of Vincenzo Monti. The two "tragic dramas" of the title are Fitzormond, or, Cherished Resentment and Malek Adhel, the Champion of the Crescent: both are three-act plays…
Portrait by Andrea Appiani, 1809
Abbondio Sangiorgio, Busto di Vincenzo Monti (1833) di trequarti
Tragedie, 1816