{{Short description|1904 play by Gabriele D'Annunzio}} {{italic title}} [[File:Irma Gramatica 1904.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Irma Gramatica]] as Mila, the daughter of Iorio, in 1904]] '''''The Daughter of Iorio''''' ({{Langx|it|'''La figlia di Iorio'''}}) is a 1904 play by the Italian writer [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]]. The play is written in verse and has elements of local dialect, proverbs and traditional rhymes from [[Abruzzo]]. It tells the tragic story of the love between a young female outcast and a shepherd who is being married off to a woman he does not love.
The play was written in 33 days in the summer of 1903, while D'Annunzio was working on ''[[Halcyon (book)|Halcyon]]''. It premiered in 1904 at the [[Teatro Lirico (Milan)|Teatro Lirico]] in [[Milan]], starring [[Irma Gramatica]] in the leading role. It was well received and has remained one of D'Annunzio's most performed plays.<ref name="meda">{{Cite book|last=Meda|first=Anna|year=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA546|chapter=La figlia di Iorio, 1904|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|page=546|isbn=1-57958-390-3}}</ref>
==Adaptations== [[File:Figlia di Jorio (soprano), figurino di Giuseppe Palanti per Figlia di Jorio (1906) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON002076.jpg|thumb|Figlia di Jorio (soprano), costume design for Figlia di Jorio act 1 (1906).]] The play was the basis for [[Alberto Franchetti]]'s 1906 opera ''[[La figlia di Iorio]]''. [[Ildebrando Pizzetti]] made another opera adaptation which premiered in 1954.<ref name="meda" /> The play was adapted for film twice in the silent era, in 1911 by S. A. Ambrosio as ''Jorio's Daughter'' and in 1917 by [[Edoardo Bencivenga]] as ''La figlia di Jorio''.<ref>{{Cite book|year=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA105|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|p=105}}</ref>
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