Note 101 — Chapter VIII · CALDERÓN

Yet Quinault had already adapted El galán fantasma under the title of Le Fantôme amoureux, which is the source of Sir William Lower’s Amorous Fantasme (1660), and there are other French imitations by Quinault, Scarron, and Thomas Corneille. Calderón was popular in Italy. As early as 1654, Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi (afterwards Clement IX.) based on No siempre lo peor es cierto the libretto of Dal male il bene, which was set to music by Antonio Maria Abbatini and Marco Marazzoli. In 1656 El mayor monstruo los celos was arranged for the Italian stage by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, who afterwards produced many other adaptations of Calderón’s plays: see an interesting and learned article by Dr. Arturo Farinelli in Cultura Española (Madrid, February 1907), pp. 123-127.