Vittoria Corombona : The White Devil of Vittoria Corombona a tragedy by J. Webster based on some events in Italy in 1581-85. Vittoria, tried for adultery & murder of her husband is sentenced to confinement, whence her lover Duke of Brachiano, carries her off & marries her but, in the end, she is killed & he is poisoned.
... or two unusual types known to him or in sympathy with his own temperament or those which are quite abnormal and therefore easily drawn; the latter are generally bad women, the Clytaemnestras, Vittoria Corombonas, Beatrice Joannas. The women of Vyasa & of Sophocles have all a family resemblance; all possess a quiet or commanding masculine strength of character which reveals their parentage. Other poets ...
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