Editing Francesco Foscari (section)

==In literature and opera==
Foscari's life was the subject of a play ''[[The Two Foscari (Byron)|The Two Foscari]]'' by [[Lord Byron]] (1821) and an episode in [[Samuel Rogers]]' long poem ''Italy''. The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto written by [[Francesco Maria Piave]] for [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[I due Foscari]]'', which premiered on 3 November 1844 in [[Rome]]. [[Mary Mitford]], author of the popular literary sketches of the English countryside entitled ''[[Our Village]]'', also wrote a successful play concerned with events in Foscari's life. Mitford's play ''[[Foscari (play)|Foscari]]'' debuted at Covent Garden in 1826 with famed actor [[Charles Kemble]] in the lead.