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100 1 _aCavallotti, Felice,
_d1842-1898
245 1 3 _aLa figlia di Jefte
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-24
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMilano: Carlo Barbini, 1907
653 _aItalian drama -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttp://archive.org/stream/lafigliadijeftec00cavauoft#page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77118
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