Il Cromuele
In Graziani’s five-act historical tragedy, Queen Henrietta Maria escapes Cromwell’s imprisonment of Charles I and heads for France to seek Louis XIV’s help. Shipwrecked and disguised as Dutch merchants, she and Delmira reach London, where Delmira’s mistaken male identity entangles them in a plan to free the king. The conspiracy fails: Charles and Delmira are executed, and Cromwell discovers too late that Delmira was his own daughter, exchanged at birth.