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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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