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A three-act comedy written in 1895 and first performed in 1915. When Livia discovers her husband Leonardo's affair and illegitimate daughter, she makes an unexpected choice. Rather than demanding separation, she proposes bringing the child into their own childless marriage. But this solution requires convincing the mother, Elena, to surrender her daughter for the sake of social respectability and the