Vecchie storie d'amore
By Adolfo Albertazzi
Cover: Meeting on the Bridge in Venice (1880), by Giacomo Favretto by Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Twelve love stories set in the castles, convents and city streets of medieval and Renaissance Italy, retold in the manner of the old novellieri. Squires, knights, friars and ladies chase passion and pay for it, and a closing section sets out the chronicles and tales the author drew on.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.