Tragedie tresexcellente, tant pour l'argument, que pour le poly langage et graves sentences dont elle est ornée Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio 1478-1550 creator Corrozet, Gilles 1510-1568 Saint-Gelais, Mellin de 1491-1558 text utu 2009 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Sophonisba" by Giovanni Giorgio Trissino is a tragedy written between 1514 and 1515 and published in 1524. As the first regular tragedy in Italian literature to recreate the conventions of classical Greek drama, it tells the story of Sophonisba, a Carthaginian princess caught between political alliances and passionate love. When her husband is defeated in battle, she faces capture by the Romans until Massinissa, her former promised lover, offers marriage as salvation. But Roman law threatens their union, forcing a tragic choice between honor and freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofonisba_(Trissino) Release date is 2009-06-30 Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Original publication data not identified Tragedies (Drama) Sophonisba, -203 B.C. -- Drama PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29279 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29279 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133652.0 29279