{"product_id":"lucrezia-borgia","title":"Lucrezia Borgia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe poisoner of legend, and, at the last, a mother.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is finished and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenice and Ferrara, in the age of the Borgias. A young soldier named Gennaro loathes above all names the name of Lucrezia Borgia, that byword for poison and the dagger, never dreaming what she is to him. And Lucrezia, who has done every wickedness the world lays at her door, guards one secret tenderness that will undo them both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst played in Paris in 1833, \u003cem\u003eLucrèce Borgia\u003c\/em\u003e was among the great successes of Victor Hugo’s Romantic theatre, and soon gave Donizetti his opera. In his preface Hugo set himself a task: to take moral deformity at its most complete, the poisoner queen of legend, and place within it the one feeling that might still redeem it, the love of a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition sets the complete play in George Burnham Ives’s faithful English translation, Hugo’s own preface, the Dramatis Personæ, and all three acts, bound behind an original painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVictor Hugo (1802–1885), translated by George Burnham Ives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete 1833 drama in three acts, with Hugo’s preface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolocosmo Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lightbound Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 104 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Solocosmo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50176444891384,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0845\/2433\/5352\/files\/lucrezia-borgia.jpg?v=1786992922","url":"https:\/\/solocosmo.org\/products\/lucrezia-borgia","provider":"solocosmo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}