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Renzo and Agnes institute a correspondence using trustworthy literate people to write and read from them. A few letters in, Agnes does what she had promised Lucia and gives Renzo 50 crowns and tells him about Lucia's vow to not marry him. Renzo is enraged and refuses to accept both. He wants to return the crowns and ask Lucia why she made that vow.
- Alessandro Manzoni
- 1827
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are good, honest people, and at first they cannot understand Don Abbondio’s equivocation followed by a refusal, until it becomes known that the local tyrant ...
Lucia, Lorenzo, and Lucia’s mother take shelter with another clergyman, Fra Cristoforo, who arranges for Lucia to be sent to a convent in Monza to be looked after until the danger passes. Don ...
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi), published in 1827 and revised in 1842, is a historical novel by Italian author Alessandro Manzoni.The novel follows two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, in 1600s Lombardy; their courtship is derailed by a jealous plot to prevent their marriage, ultimately leading them to the plague-stricken city of Milan, where they face many struggles.
In the meantime, Lucia’s mother has another plan: if Renzo and Lucia can get into the house of the priest, Don Abbondio, and declare themselves husband and wife before him and two witnesses, they will in effect be married according to the laws of the Catholic Church established at the Council of Trent (before which, clandestine marriages were permitted and recognized). They accomplish half ...
The novel ends with Renzo and Lucia happily reunited, married by a Don Abbondio (a personification of fear, yet, as all the others, a truly human character, who sometimes even utters some common sense), and moving out of the village as Renzo becomes a small businessman, the owner of a spinning mill near Bergamo.
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Don Rodrigo. An arrogant and cruel nobleman, this character holds the snobbish views characteristic of his class, by which he justifies his pursuit of Lucia. (As a peasant, she is no more than an ...
