This is a tragedy in three acts, written by Pirandello between October 1925 and August 1926. Written for Marta Abba, it tells the story of a girl named Tuda, whose existence is gripped between her marriage to Sirio Dossi, a young sculptor who only married her to have her as a model for a statue of Diana, his life's work, eternally in progress, and the love of Nono Giuncano, Sirio's old teacher, now disillusioned with the profession of sculptor and no longer attracted by the lifeless form of art, but rather by Tuda's living body. Marked and consumed by Sirio's apathy, Tuda, who cannot love Giuncano because she perceives him as a father figure, lashes out at the sculpture, provoking Sirio's reaction and her murder by the master, who rushes to the young woman's defense. The tragedy premiered in German at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich on November 20, 1926.
