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“Pietro Boccamazza“



              Pietro Boccamazza is a young gentleman of Rome who falls                    forest). Sure enough, the thugs show up close to morning.
              in love with the beautiful Agnolella. Agnolella’s father is                 Agnolella hears them and has time to hide in a pile of hay.

              respectable but poor, so Pietro’s family isn’t exactly thrilled             But hay isn’t spear-proof, and one of the gang tosses his
              about a possible marriage between them. So Pietro and                       through the haystack and barely misses her. The thugs
             Agnolella take matters into their own hands and elope. But                   take her horse, so she has to walk with the elderly couple
              as they’re leaving Rome, Pietro forgets to take his and they                to the nearby castle of the Orsini family. The lady of the

              quickly get lost. As they pass an unknown castle, they’re                   house knows Agnolella and takes her in. Meanwhile, Pietro
              attacked by a group of soldiers. Agnolella is quicker to react              is definitely not having fun. A pack of wolves devours his
              and rides deeper into the forest, but Pietro is caught. The                 horse during the night and really would have liked to have
              soldiers believe that Pietro’s a member of a rival family and               Pietro for dessert. In the morning, he runs into a bunch

              decide to hang him, but just in time they’re attacked by,                   of shepherds that just happen to be wandering around in
              well, a rival family. Pietro manages to escape in the hubbub,               that forsaken forest and they lead him to the castle where
              but he can’t track his beautiful bride. He’s pretty sure she’s              Agnolella is staying. The lady of the house decides that if
              been smothered by bears or eaten by wolves. He climbs                       the couple could defy hanging, rapacious thieves and wild

              a tree and spends the night crying about Agnolella and                      beasts, their marriage was meant to be. She offers her
              his cursed fate. But Agnolella finds a cottage of an elderly                husband’s money to pay for the wedding and promises to
              couple, who warn her that they’ll probably be invaded                       make peace with Pietro’s family. And once the lady talks
              by thugs during the night (this isn’t the nice part of the                  Pietro’s family down, they all live in peace forever after.





























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