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100 1 _aD'Annunzio, Gabriele,
_d1863-1938
240 1 3 _aLa figlia di Iorio. English
245 1 4 _aThe daughter of Jorio
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daughter_of_Iorio
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-09
508 _aAl Haines
520 _aThe Daughter of Jorio: A Pastoral Tragedy by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a verse pastoral tragedy written in the early 20th century. Set among the archaic customs of the Abruzzi, it centers on the shepherd-artist Aligi and the persecuted Mila di Codra, whose encounter tests clan loyalties, religious rites, and the sanctity of the hearth. The work blends folk belief, ritual, and lyric speech to explore love, honor, and communal judgment within a harsh pastoral world. The opening of the play frames its world through an introduction that situates the action in the Abruzzi, explains the folk rites (marriage, mourning, sanctuary at the hearth), and highlights the drama’s flexible, musical verse. Act I unfolds during Aligi’s espousal rites: his mother Candia and sisters conduct the traditional ceremony when a hunted woman rushes in to claim sanctuary. The reapers outside name her as Mila di Codra, “the daughter of Jorio,” revile her as an outcast, and demand she be handed over; the women waver, and Aligi at first tries to expel her. When Mila invokes the sacred fireplace and Aligi envisions her guardian angel weeping, he repents, places a blessed cross on the threshold, and sends the reapers away in peace, just as his father Lazaro returns wounded. At the start of Act II the scene shifts to Aligi’s mountain cave, where he carves an angel in walnut wood while Mila sits nearby and other mountain folk doze, signaling a new, quieter phase after the village tumult. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1904
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Drama
653 _aTragedies (Drama)
653 _aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
653 _aShepherds -- Drama
653 _aItalian drama -- Translations into English
653 _aAbruzzo (Italy) -- Drama
700 1 _aHenry, Alice,
_d1857-1943
700 1 _aIsola, Pietro
700 1 _aPorter, Charlotte
_q(Charlotte Endymion),
_d1857-1942
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/daughterofjoriop0000gabr/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76655
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