| La Cleopatra | |
| Title Orig: | 'La Cleopatra' Poema in XIII Canti |
| Author: | Girolamo Graziani |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Genre: | epic poem |
| Publisher: | Sarzina (Italy) |
| Pub Date: | 1632 |
| Pages: | 344 |
| Preceded By: | L'Iride, per le nozze serenissime di Maria Farnese Principessa di Parma e Francesco d'Este Duca di Modena. Canzone, Reggio, Flaminio Bartoli, 1631 |
| Followed By: | La Calisto. Panegirico in sesta rima alle glorie di Cristina regina di Svezia, Parigi, Agostino Courbé, 1644 |
La Cleopatra is an epic poem in 13 songs by Girolamo Graziani (1604–1674). The work was very successful at the time and was praised by many famous writers, including Fulvio Testi.[1]
It deals with the story of love and war of Cleopatra and Mark Antony.It is full of pathetic-sentimental scenes that drag towards the end granted with the final double suicide (Cleopatra commits suicide, after witnessing the suicide of Mark Antony).
It contains a prophecy in which Proteus vaticinates the Este's Kinship from Augustus.