The Insatiate Countess

About the show

In Venice, Countess Isabella quickly marries Roberto after her husband’s death, then pursues Massino and Gnaica and arranges Massino’s murder; she is condemned and receives Roberto’s forgiveness at the scaffold. In a comic subplot, two quarrelling husbands are tricked by their wives into sleeping with their own spouses while believing they have seduced each other’s wives, and are released when the deception is revealed.