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Often appears with: honor, shame, and reputation · vengeance plot · tower imprisonment · the fear of death · sexual humiliation · search for a hidden lover · religious persecution and toleration · rejection by a patron woman · prayer or religious incantation · marriage and betrothal · love affairs discovered · empty tomb discovery
Usually: narrative (2) · injustice endured (2) · reconciliation (1) · censure (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
Elena, trapped naked atop a tower after the scholar Rinieri removes the ladder, repeats a church orison, faints, then begs him to restore her clothes and let her escape before Florence shames her.
cause, and by whom, his wrath, thus rekindled, got the better of the other affections, so that he swerved not from his resolve, but suffered her to go her way. The lady ascended the tower, and standing with her face to the North, began to recite the scholar's orison, while he, having stolen into the tower but a little behind her, cautiously shifted the ladder that led up to the roof on which the lady stood, and wait…
Rinuccio, failing to find Alessandro after a night alarm, returns home as Pistoia debates Scannadio’s empty tomb; both lovers then beg Madonna for mercy, but she dismisses them for not following her orders.
her to her chamber, averring to her maid that for certain they must both be mightily in love with her, seeing that 'twas plain they had both done her bidding. Crestfallen and cursing his evil fortune, Rinuccio nevertheless went not home, but, as soon as the street was clear of the patrol, came back to the spot where he had dropped Alessandro, and stooped down and began feeling about, if haply he might find him, and …