''Lucrezia Borgia'' (french: Lucrèce Borgia) is an 1833 play by the French writer

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

. It is a historical work portraying the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...

-era Italian aristocrat Lucrezia Borgia. The play (along with '' Angelo, Tyrant of Padua'') is believed to have been a major influence on Oscar Wilde's '' The Duchess of Padua'' (1891).Kohl p.46

Adaptations

The opera '' Lucrezia Borgia'' composed by Gaetano Donizetti had a libretto by

Felice Romani Giuseppe Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist betw ...

which was based on Hugo's play. Several films about Borgia and her family have drawn partly on the plot of the play.

Bibliography

* Kohl, Norbert. ''Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel''. Cambridge University Press, 2011

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1833 plays Plays set in Italy Plays by Victor Hugo Plays set in the 15th century Plays set in the 16th century Plays based on real people Plays adapted into operas Cultural depictions of Cesare Borgia Cultural depictions of Lucrezia Borgia Cultural depictions of Pope Alexander VI {{1830s-play-stub