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DH: (22) Alessandro Filippo da Vigo
DW: (18) Catalina Piera da Vigo
DS or DD: (exp) Madalena Ciosa da Vigo or Giuseppe Marsilio da VigoDH: (20) Paolo Francesco Bellini
DW: (20) Lucia Maria BelliniAlessandro's family disowned him when he married Catalina. His grandfather would have, too, but he was dead. News travels slowly when you don't have Internet or phones or cars, so Lord Agnolo didn't know not to leave Formaggio Estate to his grandson.
Alessandro wouldn't gave cared if Lord Agnolo had disowned him because he was in love. He met Catalina on a boat. He was travelling to Spain and Catalina was stowing away. (There had been a particularly nasty outbreak of the plague and she was a germaphobe, so she left. Or I guess she was just scared of the plague because I don't think they knew about germs 600 years ago.) Alessandro found her in the hold. Catalina started apologizing profusely and begoing him not to tell the Captain, but Alessandro didn't answer because he had just fallen in love. He offered to pay for her passage and also take her home as soon as the ship got to Spain. Catalina outright refused at first (plague!) (And strange person!) but Alessandro visited her every day of their voyage, and by the time they arrived in Spain, she was willing to give him a chance, and once they were back in Florence, she loved him more than she hated the plague. She was still overjoyed to move to the country, though.Paolo was small and shy when he was little. And people were cruel and they picked on him relentlessly, knowing he wouldn't fight back. That all stopped a few years ago, once they were older, but people still shun him, mostly out of habit. Lucia loved a boy named Giulio, and he would have married her, but she fell ill with smallpox. She survived, but her face was all scarred, so Giulio dumped her. He was kind of a jerk. In desperation, and thinking that no one else would marry them, Paolo proposed and Lucia said yes. They don't love each other, though. They're friends. But they wish things were different. They didn't like Lord Agnolo. He was pretty different, usually, but he had an awful temper and lashed out when he was angry. They don't know Alessandro and Catalina very well yet, but they're not distant and they haven't lashed out yet, so they're happy with the change.

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