02426cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324500230014826400510017130000470022233600260026933700260029533800360032150000310035750801620038852013370055053400550188765300340194285600740197685600430205099900190209377118UtSlPG20260610134803.0mcr n260607r20251907utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ait2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aCavallotti, Felice,d1842-189813aLa figlia di Jefte 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-24  aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive)  aLa figlia di Jefte by Felice Cavallotti is a one-act stage comedy written in the late 19th century. The play centers on marriage, fidelity, and female ingenuity, using the biblical image of Jephthah’s daughter as a metaphor for a young bride’s self-possessed delay and moral test.

Count Mario Alberi marries the ingenuous Emma to secure an inheritance, though he is entangled with the glamorous Baroness Arsenia di Villalba. On their wedding night Emma, still a girl at heart with fairy tales and pious stories in hand, asks Mario for two months of chastity, citing Jephthah’s daughter as her model; Mario, uneasy and tempted by Arsenia, agrees. While the witty friend Sarchi observes from the edges, Emma’s seeming innocence masks keen strategy: she gently rules the household, keeps Mario at a distance, and then invites Arsenia to visit. In a dazzling reversal, Emma appears transformed—elegant, eloquent, and ardent—publicly asserting an ideal of total, trusting love and subtly humiliating her rival, until Mario, wholly won, kneels at her feet. After Arsenia departs in fury, Emma quotes the Jephthah story, crowns herself with a “garland of sacrifice,” and embraces Mario, signaling the end of the vowed delay and the triumph of loyal, intelligently guided love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cMilano: Carlo Barbini, 1907  aItalian drama -- 19th century4 uhttp://archive.org/stream/lafigliadijeftec00cavauoft#page/n3/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77118  c117840d117840