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.
External links
Categories:
- 1600
- Fiction--1600s
- Fiction--Latin
- Literature--1600s
- Literature--Latin
- Plays
- Latin language--1600s
- Christian Origins Studies--1600s
- Christian Origins Studies--Latin
- Christian Origins Studies--Fiction
- Domitian (subject)
- John (subject)
- Apollonius of Tyana (subject)
- Domitian--literature (subject)
- John--literature (subject)
- Apollonius of Tyana--literature (subject)