10 An 1829 play, controversial chiefly because it defied the traditional rules of the theater. Marino Faliero told

10 An 1829 play, controversial chiefly because it defied the traditional rules of the theater. Marino Faliero told the story of Israel Bertuccio, who plotted to assassinate the Venetian aristocracy in order to establish Faliero as reigning prince of Venice. The Romantics were fascinated by the byzantine politics of medieval and Renaissance Italy, which furnished subject matter to many works, especially plays. Stendhal himself drew on such sources for his novel La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) and the Chroniques italiennes (The Italian Chornicles).