Saints` Lives and Bible Stories for the Stage – A Bilingual Edition

Elissa B. Weaver is Professor of Italian, Emerita, University of Chicago. James Wyatt Cook is Lagbo Trustees' Professor Emeritus of English, Albion College.  

Acknowledgments ix
Editor’s Introduction 1
Texts and Translations 67
La Rappresentazione di Santa Domitilla 68
The Play of Saint Domitilla 69
La Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma 144
The Play of Saint Guglielma 145
La Rappresentazione di San Francesco 230
The Play of Saint Francis 231
La Rappresentazione del figliuol prodigo 308
The Play of the Prodigal Son 309
La Rappresentazione della distruzione di Saul e il pianto di Davit 362
The Play of the Destruction of Saul and the Lament of David 363
Endnotes 444
Appendix 1: Inventory of the Tanini house in Via de’ Leoni 463
Appendix 2: Letter from Jacopa Tanini 468
Appendix 3: Fra Antonio Dolciati’s Introductory Letter of Dedication 470
Editor’s Bibliography 478
Index 493