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The actress Adriana Lecouvreur loves Maurizio, Count of Saxony, who is also pursued by the Princess de Bouillon. The Princess becomes Adriana’s rival and sends her poisoned violets. Adriana kisses the flowers and dies in Maurizio’s arms.
In fourteenth-century Siena, Guelph noblewoman Gloria falls in love with the Ghibelline captain Lionetto, and leaves the city with him. As he besieges Siena, Gloria agrees to marry him to end the conflict but refuses her brother’s demand that she kill him. At their wedding, her brother stabs Lionetto; Gloria kills herself beside him.
Federico loves an unnamed woman from Arles, but his family learns she has another lover. His mother urges him to marry Vivetta, who also loves him; after a renewed bout of jealousy, Federico becomes delirious and jumps from a hayloft to his death.
The actress Adriana Lecouvreur loves Maurizio, Count of Saxony, who is also pursued by the Princess de Bouillon. The Princess becomes Adriana’s rival and sends her poisoned violets. Adriana kisses the flowers and dies in Maurizio’s arms.
In fourteenth-century Siena, Guelph noblewoman Gloria falls in love with the Ghibelline captain Lionetto, and leaves the city with him. As he besieges Siena, Gloria agrees to marry him to end the conflict but refuses her brother’s demand that she kill him. At their wedding, her brother stabs Lionetto; Gloria kills herself beside him.
Federico loves an unnamed woman from Arles, but his family learns she has another lover. His mother urges him to marry Vivetta, who also loves him; after a renewed bout of jealousy, Federico becomes delirious and jumps from a hayloft to his death.