La Historia de Roma en la obra dramática de Ramón de la Cruz y Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano1/The History of Rome in the play of Ramón de la Cruz and Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano

Metastasio and Apostolo Zeno provide a bridge between the classics and the eighteenth-century Spanish playwriters, as Ramón de la Cruz and Vicente Rodríguez de Arellano, who not only write original work, but also made versions of Italian melodrams. Both Italian and Spanish authors staged their particular vision of the history of Rome to the public wliith extraordinary success. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]