A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

 merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel, disarms, and strangles him. This awakens the affection of his wife, and two are reconciled.

Alexander Zemlinsky wrote an opera based on a German translation of the play, entitled Eine florentinische Tragödie

Eine florentinische Tragödie

Eine florentinische Tragödie , Op. 16 is an opera in one act by Alexander Zemlinsky to a libretto adapted by the composer from a German translation by Max Meyerfeld of a play by Oscar Wilde.-Performance history:...

which premiered in 1917.

See also

• The Manuscripts of Oscar Wilde
  The Manuscripts of Oscar Wilde
  The original manuscripts of Oscar Wilde today reside in many collections, including the British Library. By far the largest and most comprehensive is to be found at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA....
  
  
• Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde
  Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde
  This is an incomplete list of music based on the works of Oscar Wilde.Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer and wit, whose works have been the basis of a considerable number of musical works by noted composers...
  
  
• http://librivox.org/a-florentine-tragedy-and-la-sainte-courtisane-by-oscar-wilde/