Genoa in 1547 chafes under the Doria family, and the republicans led by the stern Verrina look to Count Fiesco of Lavagna to free the city. But the charming Fiesco hides his own ambitions behind a life of pleasure, and as the conspiracy ripens the question becomes whether he means to liberate Genoa or to rule it.
Schiller’s early republican tragedy, a sharp study of political ambition from the author of The Robbers. Download the free EPUB.