Excerpt from Madonna Pia: A Tragedy, and Three Other Dramas OF the four dramas in this volume, two have hitherto remained unpublished. Madonna Pia was written many years ago with a view to performance. It was suggested by a powerful dramatic sketch called Malaria, in one Act, which had a short life upon the Paris stage. To this sketch two Acts were prefixed, and to these the original, which forms the third Act, was fitted with some necessary adaptations. The Gladia tor of Ravenna, probably the finest piece of dramatic writing produced on the modern German stage, was translated many years ago, and printed for private cir culation. King Rene's Daughter, from the Danish of Henrik Hertz, having run through two editions, a third has been called for, and it has been included in the present volume. The translation of The Camp of Wallenstein, which appeared in Blackwood's Maga zine, ' has been added to make it accessible in a more convenient form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.