Luria

Dedication and Persons

Robert Browning

I DEDICATE

THIS LAST ATTEMPT FOR THE PRESENT AT DRAMATIC

POETRY

TO A GREAT DRAMATIC POET;

“WISHING WHAT I WRITE MAY BE READ BY HIS LIGHT:”

-IF A PHRASE ORIGINALLY ADDRESSED, BY NOT THE
LEAST WORTHY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES,

TO SHAKESPEARE,

MAY BE APPLIED HERE, BY ONE WHOSE SOLE PRIVILEGE
IS IN A GRATEFUL ADMIRATION,

TO WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

PERSONS

LURIA, a Moor, Commander of the Florentine Forces.
HUSAIN, a Moor, his friend.
PUCCIO, the old Florentine Commander, now LURIA’S Chief Officer.
BRACCIO, Commissary of the Republic of Florence.
JACOPO (LAPO), his Secretary.
TIBURZIO, Commander of the Pisans.
DOMIZIA, a noble Florentine Lady.

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