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Goethe's masterpiece of an epistolary novel from 1774 (revised in 1787), pivotal to the Sturm und Drang movement, caused a cultural upheaval in Europe – a wave of suicides, "Wertherism" and the imitation of heroes in fashion and sentiment.
Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.
The story takes place on a country estate where a group of characters from different social classes gather, faced with boredom, unfulfilled ambitions, and emotional voids.
Selected works, 3
Pastoral drama (comedy) in five acts, written in double-rhymed twelve-line stanzas (with eight-line stanzas in the lyrical parts), the oldest preserved play by Držić (premiered in 1548 in Dubrovnik, printed in 1551 in Venice).