Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father’s dead:
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 5, Scene 2. Desdemona’s uncle Gratiano delivers news from Venice that her father Brabantio died of a broken heart because of her marriage to Othello. Gratiano is glad Brabantio didn’t live to see his daughter murdered by Othello.