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Part I (Pages 1 - 74, A Wild and Lonely Place - Everything Changes)
• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: O'Farrell, Maggie. The Marriage Portrait. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2022.
• This book was written from the third-person perspective and it switches between the present and past tenses. Tense changes will be noted.
• The first section is "A Wild and Lonely Place," in Fortezza in 1561, in the present tense.
• Lucrezia is 16 years old and has been married just under a year.
• Her husband Alfonso, the Duke of Ferrara, has taken her to a fortress near Bondeno with a small group of people.
• Lucrezia realizes with a shock that she thinks her husband Alfonso, the Duke, means to kill her here.
• She wonders how he will do it as they set to eating dinner.
• In "The Unfortunate Circumstances of Lucrezia's Conception," the year is 1544 in...
This section contains 6,157 words (approx. 21 pages at 300 words per page) |
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