Clavis Libri

Term

Abbey

The Badìa Grande of Richieri is an old feudal castle converted into a monastery, with a low gate, a courtyard with a cistern, and a brick corridor gnawed by time, where only a few old nuns remain. Anna Rosa goes there to visit her aunt, a nun, and it is in the corridor that her revolver fires for the first time.

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I had to climb back up to the Abbey shortly after, to retrieve from the corridor, under the tall window, that revolver, which was to serve me later.

Book VII: The revolver and the bishop, Vitangelo Moscarda, narrating after the fact, about Anna Rosa's revolver