Shorts from Scenes from Private Life · Character
Ginevra di Piombo
A proud Corsican painter's daughter whose fierce loyalty to her exiled father collides with a love that demands she defy him.
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Also known as Mademoiselle Piombo, Mademoiselle Ginevra, Ginevra, Piombo
First appearance: The Vendetta
As a major figure in Shorts from Scenes from Private Life, Ginevra di Piombo is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Appears in a story within this collection, embodying themes of love and familial duty.
Ginevra is the daughter of Bartolomeo di Piombo, a Corsican who once sheltered the young Bonaparte and now lives in proud poverty in Paris. Raised on tales of vendetta and family honor, she has inherited her father's unbending will and his smoldering sense of injury. When love enters her life, it forces her to choose between the two absolutes she has been taught to revere: her father's authority and her own heart. Her struggle anchors the story's central drama of loyalty, exile, and the cost of passion.
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- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Parisian social web
- Corsican honor
- Legal and social intrigue
- Protagonist
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Colonel Luigi
family · ambivalent
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- Colonel Luigi
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- Colonel Luigi
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See Ginevra di Piombo in The Vendetta