happily, resembles
that of _The Cenci_. Later plays in Latin of the historic type are
the extant Landivio de' Nobili's _De captivitate Ducis Jacobi_ (the
_condottiere_ Jacopo Piccinino, d. 1464); C. Verardi's _Historia
Baetica_ (the expulsion of the Moors from Granada) (1492), and the
game author's _Ferdinandus_ (of Aragon) _Servatus_, which is called a
tragi-comedy because it is neither tragic nor comic. The Florentine L.
Dali's _Hiempsal_ (1441-1442) remains in MS. A few tragedies on
sacred subjects were produced in Italy during the last quarter of the
15th century, and a little later. Such were the religious dramas
written for his pupils by P. Domizio, on which Politian cast
contempt; and the tragedies, following ancient models, of T. da Prato
of Treviso, B. Campagna of Verona, _De passione Redemptoris_; and G.
F. Conti, author of _Theandrothanatos_ and numerous vanished plays.

[15] _Imber aureus_ (Danae), &c.

[16] L. Bruni's _Poliscena_ (c. 1395); Sicco Polentone's (1370-1463)
jovial _Lusus ebriorum_ s. _De lege bibia_; the papal secretary P.
Candido Decembrio's (1399-1477) non-extant _Aphrodisia_; L. B.
Alberti's _Philodoxios_ (1424); Ugolino Pisani of Parma's (d. before
1462) _Philogenia_ and _Confutatio coquinaria_ (a merry students'
play); the _Fraudiphila_ of A. Tridentino, also of Parma, who died
after 1470 and perhaps served Pius II.; Eneo Silvio de' Piccolomini's
own verse comedy, _Chrisis_, likewise in MS., written in 1444; P.
Domizio's _Lucinia_, acted in the palace of Lorenzo de' Medici in
1478, &c.

[17] Mondella, _Isifile_ (1582); Fuligni, _Bragadino_ (1589).

[18] Home, _Douglas_.

[19] Lazzaroni, _Ulisse il giovane_ (1719).

[20] _Didone abbandonata_, _Siroe_, _Semiramide_, _Artaserse_,
_Demetris_, &c.

[21] _Cleopatra_, _Antigone_, _Octavia_, _Mirope_, &c.

[22] e.g. _Bruto I._ and _II._

[23] _Filippo_; _Maria Stuarda_.

[24] Pellico, _Francesca da Rimini_; Niccolini, _Giovanni da
Procida_; _Beatrice Cenci_; Giacometti, _Cola di Rienzi_
(Giacometti's masterpiece was _La Marte civile_).

[25] Pyrogopolinices in the _Miles Gloriosus_.

[26] The masked characters, each of which spoke the dialect of the
place he represented, were (according to Baretti) _Pantalone_, a
Venetian merchant; _Dottore_, a Bolognese physician; _Spaviento_, a
Neapolitan braggado