A drama founded upon the story of the celebrated Baglioni family who ruled in Umbria for over fifty years. “Set in Perugia, in the Italy of the fifteenth century, with a plot which swims in a mist of blood and tears, it is cast in that antiquated literary style which is always so perilous to handle, and which betrays one so easily into turgidity and bombast.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The blank verse marches with tolerable, even correctness, but the rhetoric is often turgid and we should doubt if the play could be found to be actable, though possibly possessing some dramatic passages.”
– + Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 100w.
“He has allowed himself to be distracted by dramatically irrelevant circumstances.”
– + Ind. 60: 517. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.
“It is worth reading, if one has the time, as a vivacious portrayal of the renaissance mood.”
+ – Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
“The work, which ought to be biting, almost corrosive from its nature, tastes insipid.” Bliss Carman.
– + N. Y. Times. 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 750w.