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A tragedy written in 1905. Set in an Abruzzo castle during the 1820s, the play follows the disintegration of the noble Di Sangro family. Count Tibaldo has abandoned his wife Monica and daughter Gigliola for Angizia, a cunning sorceress who manipulates the household with poison and dark arts. As family members succumb to physical ailments and moral corruption, the disinherited Gigliola discovers terrible