Chapter VII: Sophonisba

The vnhappy end and successe of the loue of King Massinissa, and Queene Sophonisba his wyfe.

[_Source._--Bandello, Part i. nov. 41.

_Origin._--Petrarch, _Trionfi_.

_Parallels._--Belleforest, I. iii., f. 356; Trissino, _Sophonisba_
(tragedy), 1524; Raleigh, _Hist._ V. iii. 8; Wanley, _Wonders_, III.
liii. 2.

_Painter._--I. ii. 49; II. ii. 39; III. ii. 78; IV. ii. 236.

_Derivates._--Marston, _Wonder of Women, or Sophonisba, her
tragedy_, printed 1606; N. Lee, _Sophonisba, or Hannibal’s
Overthrow_, 1676; J. Thomson, _Sophonisba_, acted 28 Feb. 1730.[68]]

[Footnote 68: The celebrated line, “O Sophonisba, Sophonisba O!”
has kept its memory alive.]