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Prince: Michele Rinieri Lorenzo
Consort: Caterina Maria Annunziata
Son?: Pietro Cristofano [Tancredi]
Of the illustrious Royal House of: Manco
In the City-State of: Salvi
Merely half a year since Michele and Caterina's wedding, an unpleasant surprise emerged. Rosa Tancredi, the youngest daughter of renowned condottiero Jacopo Tancredi, arrived in town with a young boy in tow. This would have caused quite a stir under normal circumstances, as the famously beautiful and proud Rosa was seen dressed in heavy veils that obscured her face, but within the walls of the Palazzo Manco, a different matter was the cause of anxiety and outrage.
As it were, Rosa was insistent that her young son, Pietro, was her love-child with Michele, the result of a drunken encounter during a festival in Firenze half a decade ago. She had raised the boy well and provided for all his needs, but now, she told them, she was wasting away of a disease, and feared that her days on earth will not be for longer still. It is with this plea that she had come to Salvi, hoping for young Pietro to be given a new home under his father's roof.
This caused significant distress to Michele and Caterina. For one, despite the shaky claim of paternity, Michele did remember having spent a night of rowdy festivities in Firenze five years ago, and having met Rosa there; what's more, the boy did bore a slight but noticeable resemblance to him, with their dark hair and eyes. Michele admitted to Caterina that there is a likelihood that Pietro was in fact his son, a confession that Caterina accepted quietly and solemnly. She was hurt by the idea that her husband would be taking his child by another woman into their home, but she understood his plight, and she had come to pity young Pietro's situation. Still, it was not untio the next morning that she approached Michele in their garden and told him with certainty that she was willing to raise Pietro as if he were her own son.
By the end of the week, Rosa bade her son good-bye, supposedly to retire to a convent for the rest of her days; within a month, a messenger was sent to notify Michele that she had expired of her illness. But there was still a concern, slight but gnawing inside Michele's mind, that the other members of the Tancredi family will someday return and attempt to use Perotto -- as young Pietro is starting to be called -- as leverage to influence the goings-on in Salvi.
Mutatis mutandis. Si non confectus, non reficiat.
Prince: Michele Rinieri Lorenzo
Consort: Caterina Maria Annunziata
Son?: Pietro Cristofano [Tancredi]
Of the illustrious Royal House of: Manco
In the City-State of: Salvi
Merely half a year since Michele and Caterina's wedding, an unpleasant surprise emerged. Rosa Tancredi, the youngest daughter of renowned condottiero Jacopo Tancredi, arrived in town with a young boy in tow. This would have caused quite a stir under normal circumstances, as the famously beautiful and proud Rosa was seen dressed in heavy veils that obscured her face, but within the walls of the Palazzo Manco, a different matter was the cause of anxiety and outrage.
As it were, Rosa was insistent that her young son, Pietro, was her love-child with Michele, the result of a drunken encounter during a festival in Firenze half a decade ago. She had raised the boy well and provided for all his needs, but now, she told them, she was wasting away of a disease, and feared that her days on earth will not be for longer still. It is with this plea that she had come to Salvi, hoping for young Pietro to be given a new home under his father's roof.
This caused significant distress to Michele and Caterina. For one, despite the shaky claim of paternity, Michele did remember having spent a night of rowdy festivities in Firenze five years ago, and having met Rosa there; what's more, the boy did bore a slight but noticeable resemblance to him, with their dark hair and eyes. Michele admitted to Caterina that there is a likelihood that Pietro was in fact his son, a confession that Caterina accepted quietly and solemnly. She was hurt by the idea that her husband would be taking his child by another woman into their home, but she understood his plight, and she had come to pity young Pietro's situation. Still, it was not untio the next morning that she approached Michele in their garden and told him with certainty that she was willing to raise Pietro as if he were her own son.
By the end of the week, Rosa bade her son good-bye, supposedly to retire to a convent for the rest of her days; within a month, a messenger was sent to notify Michele that she had expired of her illness. But there was still a concern, slight but gnawing inside Michele's mind, that the other members of the Tancredi family will someday return and attempt to use Perotto -- as young Pietro is starting to be called -- as leverage to influence the goings-on in Salvi.
Mutatis mutandis. Si non confectus, non reficiat.
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