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Attilio
Sworn to the Carbonari and tangled in a young woman's desperate errand, Attilio vanishes into the Genoese night with secrets he was meant to carry.
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Also known as the astute Attilio
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Attilio belongs to the underground world of Italian conspirators, bound by oath and answerable to men like Cantelucci for the conduct of those he has initiated. His disappearance—perhaps by assassination, perhaps by his…
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- Local Italian Support
- Protagonist
- Central Intrigue Network
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
Madame de Montevesso’s confession that she could not share the royalists’ hatred of the Empire, despite living…
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