Word: andreina
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Sofia is even more of a busybody than Pietro. She not only tries to patch up her brother's marriage by arguing with Maria Luisa but makes a missionary journey to the mistress, Andreina. Andreina is beautiful but far from dumb. When she learns that Matteo's money is not his but his wife's, and that consequently there is no chance of being kept by him any longer and no point in marrying him if he got a divorce, she begins to lay her complicated plans for revenge. First she lures Pietro away from his fianc...
...Pietro is madly in love with Andreina, and imagines that because she has become his mistress she loves him too. His faith is soon sorely tried. Stefano, the man who first seduced Andreina when she was 14, appears again, turns out to be Maria Luisa's brother. Stefano is now a cripple and nearly penniless; his rich sister will have nothing to do with him. Andreina hates Stefano, but to plague Pietro she ousts him, takes the cripple again as her lover. Hatred of everyone and everything becomes more & more her guiding passion. By Roman law, crippled Brother Stefano...
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