Resumo de Iorio's Daughter - Grabriele D'annunzio

The events take place in the then agricultural and patriarchal regionof Abruzzi. In the house of Lazaro di Roio and his wife Candia dellaLeonessa, the preparations for the wedding party of their son Aligi (apriest) and his young bride Vienda di Giave are being made. Aligi'sthree sisters, Splendor, Favetta and Ornella, prepare the furnishingsand the garments for the wedding while his mother hosts the relativesand friends that arrive with wedding presents. This picture of countryserenity (which is taken by the Abruzesse as a bad presage, as when apiece of bread falls on the ground, signal of imminent misfortune bythe Abruzzese popular tradition), it is unexpectedly disturb by thearrive of a running young woman that looks for shelter against a groupof drunk shepherds that have the intention of abuse her. The youngwoman is Mila di Codra, daughter of Iorio, the magician. She is aprostitute of barns and stables and also suspected to practicewitchcraft. The drunk harvesters demanded to have the young lady byshouts. At first Aligi intend to promptly give up Mila to them, butinstead he withhold her against him believing to have seen the angelcarved in the fireplace cry. He then lights a candle at the floor nearto the door to make known that he will not permit them to violate thathouse. At this point Lazaro, Aligi's Father, arrives. He's bleedingfrom the fight for the possession of Mila. While Aligi is taking careof his father, she takes the oportunity to escape unnoticed. Sometime after this incident, Aligi is refuging himself on the mountains.Later on, having already celebrate his wedding (without consuming it)with Vienda, Aligi receives Mila in the cove on the mountain and sharesthe primitive shelter with her on pure spiritual communion. But Aligiis now in love with her and manifest his desire of go to Rome to ask tothe Pope the dissolution of his marriage with Candia. While Aligi goesaway, the lamp burning in the cove in front a Madonna carved in wood bythe same Aligi, seems to burn out by lack of oil. Since that would beconsidered sinful, a profanation, Mila runs hopeless from the cove toask for oil to a person passing by, that suprisely reveals to beOrnella, Aligi's sister. She asks Mila to leave her brother alone andleaves. Arrives the priest Lazaro di Roio, which before had helped tofight some of the men attempting to rape Mila. Lazaro caught Aligi andMilla together and attacks the young woman. Aligi intervene to defendMila and kill the priest with an axe's blow. Because of the rules ofthe community, Aligi is condemned to atrocious death that are up to thepriest killers: At first he will have his "guilty hand" chopped off,then he will be put in a bag with an mastiff and at last thrown in theriver. But before, the killer would have to be taken to his home toreceive his mother forgiveness. At this point Mila intervene declaringhaving seduced the poor Aligi with an spell, excusing him from theatrocious punishment. Therefore, Mila is condemned to be burned to deadfor witchcraft. During her execution, Ornella (that knows about MilaInnocence), cry for her: "Mila, Mila, my sister in Jesus, I kiss theground that you walked in! The heaven is yours". The daughter of Ioriosacrifices herself for Aligi, walking into the flames with hope ofachieving one final purification. "The flame is beautiful, Ornella, Theflame is beautiful..." she say...

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