"PROSPERO, Duke of Milan, dedicating himself entirely to study, commits the government of his dukedom to his brother Anthonio, who, confederating with the king of Naples, to extirpate Prospero, they seize him and his infant daughter, and force them out to sea, in a tatter'd boat: Providence drives the boat on shore, on a barren inchanted island; where Prospero found nobody but a sort of incubus; and here he lives twelve years, in the study and exercise of natural magic.At this time the same king of Naples, Ferdinand his only son, and Anthonio, returning from marrying the daughter of Naples to the king of Tunis, fall under Prospero's spells.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.