Description: Manuscript copy in Italian. Based on Voltaire's 1732 tragedy, Zaïre. The heroine of this piece, Zaira, it torn between her Christian faith and Orosman, the Muslim Sultan of Jerusalem with whom she is in love and due to marry.
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