Word: bastianazzo
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...that first rose against the Malavoglia. Bastianazzo, the father of the family, was drowned in a storm and the Malavoglia boat was lost...
...boat was raised, repaired, but before it could be sent to sea again, one of Bastianazzo's three sons was killed while serving in the navy. "Every wind," people said, "is contrary to a broken ship." Final payment of the debt had to be postponed again & again. "Long things turn into snakes,", the neighbors were saying. In the end they were right; the owner of the lost cargo foreclosed, and the Malavoglia lost their heart's ease at day's end-the house by the medlar tree...
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