Aminta

    Aminta, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara.

    The play has a pastoral theme, and is set in the time of Alexander the Great. The characters are shepherds and nymphs.

The story is about Aminta's love for the beautiful nymph Silvia, who does not return his attentions and prefers hunting. She risks rape at the hands of a Satyr but Aminta saves her; however, again she flees from him. Aminta, finding her blood-stained veil, attempts to kill himself. Now Silvia is remorseful, comes back to cry over Aminta's body who is still alive, and the two can happily marry, following the advice that older and wiser friends had been giving them.