This summary provides the essential information from the multi-paragraph document in 3 sentences: Renzo and Lucia are forced to flee their hometown of Lecco in Lombardy, Italy to escape Don Rodrigo who wants to kidnap Lucia. They travel to the monastery in Monza and other locations like Como, Vaprio d'Adda, and the castle of the Unnamed, where Lucia is briefly held. Renzo is involved in stealing bread in Milan during a time of poverty and is sentenced to death. The document describes their journeys and interactions with other characters in Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.

1. That branch of the lake
of Como, which extends
towards the south, is enclosed
by two unbroken chains of
mountains, which, as they
advance and recede, diversify its
shores with numerous bays and
inlets. ……….
where the lake ends, and the
Adda again begins - soon to
resume the name of the lake.
A. Manzoni
Magritte

2. Farewell, ye mountains, rising from the waters, and pointing to
the heavens! ye varied summits, familiar to him who has been brought
up among you, and impressed upon his mind as clearly as the
countenance of his dearest friends! ye torrents, whose murmur he
recognizes like the sound of the voices of home! (….).
Renzo and Lucia LEAVING THE HOMETOWN, to avoid Don Rodrigo kidnappes Lucia, to go to a
Monastery in Monza. Peculiar personage and literary passages, the nun of Monza (Gertrude),
became nun because her father wanted to leave the heredity to his firstborn male only. She will
have an affair with somebody working with one of the terrible lord of the story (the Unnamed).
They were seen, so the other nun got killed by the two. Gertrude will be found dead herself.
Lecco

3. Como

4. Vaprio d’Adda
(Bergamo)

5. Monza, wall of the old
monastery of the nun of Monza
cited in the novel.

6. A lady came from the threshold of one of the houses towards the
convoy, whose aspect announced advanced youth, but which had not yet
passed away ; the beauty which she possessed was obscured, but not
obliterated, by much distress and mortal langor.
There was in her grief something inexpressibly quiet and deep, which
indicated a soul all imbued and filled with it. She bore in her arms a young girl
of about nine years old, dead; but dressed, and laid out, with her hair divided
in front, in a white frock of the greatest purity, as if her own hands had
adorned her for a feast promised some time ago, as a reward for her
goodness.
DRAMATIC MOMENT, collecting bodies from the victim of the PLAGUE in Milan. The Mother of
Cecilia

7. The castle of the Unnamed was commandingly situated over a dark
and narrow valley, on the summit of a cliff projecting from a rugged ridge of
hills.
From the height of this castle, like an eagle from his sanguinary nest, the
savage nobleman surveyed every spot around where the foot of man could
tread, and heard no human sound above him.
Don Rodrigo captures Lucia from the Convent through the Unnamed and she is brought to the
Unnamed (lord)’s castle.
In the meantime Renzo travel several places, and his involved in THE STEALING OF THE BREAD
with other Milan’s citizens from the bakeries since is a moment of poverty and is sentenced to
death. I was striked by the moments where he notices things while walking in the cities, such as
several torture’s machine here and there to kill dissidents. Of course as other novels the
description, geographical, historical, psychological are paramount. MAHLER “ A symphony
includes life”.
The castle in
Rossino

8. Navigli di Milano. Old way of communication between
Lombardia (county of), Switzerland, and the sea. Naviglio
grande)(Big) and Piccolo (small) the latter also projected by
Leonardo da Vinci

9. `Oh no! I see that you have a kind heart, and feel some pity for an unhappy
creature. If you chose, you could terrify me more than all the others: you could
kill me with fear; but instead of that, you have . . . rather lightened my heart;
God will reward you for it. Finish your deed of mercy; set me free, set me free.`
`To - morrow morning, I will see you again, I say. Come, in the mean while, be
of good courage. Take a little rest; you must want something to eat. They shall
bring you something directly.`

10. All appeared changed: that which once most urgently stimulated his
desires, now no longer possessed any charms for him: his passions, like
a steed suddenly become restive at the sight of a shadow, refused to
carry him any further.
If this other life, of which they told me when I was a boy, of which
everybody talks now, as if it were a certain thing, if there be not such a
thing, if it be an invention of the priests; what am I doing?.... But if
there really be another life!. . . –

11. `God! God! God! If I could see Him! If I could hear Him! Where is this God?`
`Do you ask this? you? And who has Him nearer than you? Do you not feel Him
in your heart, overcoming, agitating you, never leaving you at ease, and at the
same time drawing you forward, presenting to your view a hope of tranquility
and consolation, a consolation which shall be full and boundless, as soon as you
recognize Him, acknowledge, and implore Him?`
- I, such as I am, long so ardently for your salvation, that, for its sake, I would
joyfully give (and He is my witness!) the few days that still remain to me; oh,
think what, and how great, must be the love of Him, Who inspires me with this
imperfect, but ardent affection; how must He love you, what must He desire for
you, Who has bid and enabled me to regard you with a charity that consumes
me!`
The Unnamed meets the Cardinal Borromeo

12. Perhaps God, Who has wrought in you this miracle of mercy, is diffusing in
their hearts a joy of which they know not yet the reason. These people
are, perhaps, united to us without being aware of it: perchance the Spirit
may be instilling into their hearts an undefined feeling of charity, a
petition which He will grant for you, an offering of gratitude of which you
are, as yet, the unknown object.`
.

13. Both Renzo and Lucia become infected by the Plague but overcame it. Don Rodrigo died from it.
Beautiful passages of when Lucia is visited in the Lazzaretto (place for the one affected by the
Plague and the homeless).
Magritte