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...Cousinly Campaign. The republic's nine major parties split, regrouped and came back with five backing Chichi and four supporting Sugar Producer Roberto ("Nino") Chiari, who, as it happens, is Chichi's cousin. "Ceci" Remón made herself Chichi's campaign manager, stumping the country making speeches and giving away cooking pots, packets of seed and bottles of medicine, all bearing plugs for Remón. Chiari warned voters against a military man; Remón countered that a highly respected general name of Eisenhower was running for President in a country to the north...
...Arrogance. When Michele Rende comes home, a veteran of the African campaign, the wretched villagers of Grupa immediately fear and admire him, though they do not know why. But there is a lordliness and arrogance in the gait of the man which impresses them all, especially 13-year-old Nino, the imaginative boy whom he befriends...
...with whom he quarrels is found dead a few days later, and everyone assumes that Michele has killed him, particularly since the fellow has been carrying on an affair with Michele's sister. Disdainfully, the veteran declares his innocence, but only his young friend Nino believes him; he is sentenced to 13 years in prison...
Michele tries hard to live in peace. Renting a sour patch of land from Nino's father, he and the boy cultivate it furiously. But he can no longer live only for himself; he begins urging the peasants to seize the uncultivated land neglected by the absentee owners...
Bloodied Hands. After that, The Brigand moves to a relentless climax. Michele incites acts of violence against landowners, sets fire to their homes, and leads a pathetic peasant march to divide the big estates. He is driven to the hills as an outlaw, finally cornered and killed. Nino looks on helplessly, convinced that his friend is a victim of injustice, but realizing, too, that he was not the man to lead the peasants: "You could not carry justice to mankind with hands that were befouled with so much blood...