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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...

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