In 1628 two young silk-workers on Lake Como, Renzo and Lucia, are about to marry when the local lord Don Rodrigo forbids the wedding out of a whim. Separated and hunted, they are carried through bread riots in Milan, a convent, the castle of a feared nobleman, war and the great plague of 1630.
The great Italian novel of the nineteenth century, wise, humane and broad in its sympathies. Download the free EPUB.