Flavia (1600 Stefonio), play

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Flavia <Latin> (1600) is a play by Bernardino Stefonio.

Abstract

Jesuit Latin drama in five acts centered on the conflict between Christianity and Roman pantheism. The action of the play is set at the end of the first century and the main characters are the consul Titus Flavius Clemens, his son the emperor Domitian, Apollonius of Tyana, and John the Evangelist.

Editions

Published in Rome [Italy]: apud haeredem Bartholomaei Zannetti, 1621. The ms. is preserved in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.

Performance history

Premiered in Rome, Italy: Collegio Romano, 1600.

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