Apparently the third edition of this famous tragicomedy by Epicurus, a writer originally from Abruzzo who soon moved to Naples and worked there. Three blind men (the Old Man, the Jealous One, and the Third, as they are referred to in the captions of the editions and manuscripts), the first of whom is accompanied by a Guide, pray for death because of their infirmity, caused by love. Their meeting provides the opportunity for a description of their own misfortunes and the beauties of the women they love, which also reflects the topoi of feminine description typical of the poetry of the time. The appearance of a priest of Love performs the miracle of restoring the three blind men's sight. This, in short, is the subject of the "tragicomedy," a popular genre whose immediate predecessors are the pastoral eclogues of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.