Politian

About the show

In 16th-century Rome, orphan Lalage becomes jealous when Castiglione, son of a duke, is betrothed to her ward Alessandra. Lalage persuades Politian, the Earl of Leicester, to avenge her against Castiglione. The surviving melodrama reworks the 1825 Kentucky murder of Solomon P. Sharp, and includes Politian’s proposed suicide pact with Lalage.