Summary
A Renaissance chessboard of skin and steel: Pisa’s warlord Guido Gurlino covets Maddalena Pazzi, Florence’s unattainable pearl; she spurns him for Vitelli, the enemy general whose very name sings of Medici suns. Gurlino’s retort is not siege but theft—he abducts Giovanna, a child-bride of innocence, and re-christens her Monna Vanna, a trophy wife whose halo grows each time she binds the wounds of the very soldiers who enslaved her. When Vitelli falls bleeding into her linen arms, the triangle calcifies into myth: Madonna, wolf, and wounded swan circling a single candle in a dungeon that smells of iron ink and wet parchment.
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Guido Gurlino, head of the Pisan army, wants the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi, but she rejects him, in love with Vitelli, head of the Florentine armies. Gurlino then kidnaps young Giovanna and makes her his wife. When, during a duel, Vitelli is wounded, he will be healed by Giovanna, whom the Pisans call Monna Vanna and whom she worships as an angel for her kindness.
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