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Lorenza Pazzi
"My name is Lorenza Pazzi" (10).

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Flora has a special relationship with her Nonna and will have a relationship with Emilio.

"For the first 14 years of my life Nonna was everything to me. She was my captain, my nurse, my parent, my cook" (24).

"If I thought Emilio's half smile was interesting, his full smile warmed me like the sun" (16).

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The words used are actually words of nobility so there is no slang

"Sprezzatura" (13)
"Mazzocchio" (13)
"strega" (25)

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"This poverino I must help him, he looks as if he will topple over at anytime" (43).

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Flora's goal is to get her father's approval

"When I came back, I would stand at the alter during a high mass at our duomo. I would slit open my robes as Marco Polo did, and say "See, Papa? Is this enough? Do you love me?" (15)

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Mary Jane Beaufrand

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Flora was past around her family because nobody wanted to deal with her

"I'd been torn about the nature of the tragedy of my life. I could never bring my family fortune. Without Nonna, mamma might have accepted me eventually. I might have walked the halls like my sister..." (93)

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Emilio is showing her reality

"For the past hour some poor soul has been screaming non stop. His cries curdle my blood, but you don't hear them. Very few get what they want in this life. Why do you keep asking for perfection. I think you are spoiled in deed" (78).

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Flora
"...Lorenza Pazzi, but everyone called me Flora" (10).

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Flora is caring by helping Emilio  and fights for what she likes as seen by fighting for her garden.

'This boy looked ill in deed..."you can puke over there... i'll take you to Nonna to get you something to eat..." (13-16)
"The poverino looked even more ghostly than prior, "just shut up and eat the orange" (37).
"Stop this is my garden!" then she tried to fight the soldiers (42).

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Flora learned how to fight like a soldier

"That morning we learned how to storm a castle... how to advance... protect ourselves from arrows..." (60-61)

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Being that Flora has somewhat of an education.

"I was not beautiful like Dominica; I was not practiced in flattery, like Renato; nor was I learned, like my brother Andrea" (13).

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"I pulled the florin that I had stolen and put it to my collect sack of florins then put it under my pillow" (

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"Flora, beauty is in the eye of the beholder carina, or in your case those hazelnut eyes" (62).

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Beaufrand, Mary Jane. Primavera. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

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"My shift was plain, but it was still a dress. And with my long hair I was still clearly a girl" (65).

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"Nonna scrubbed the rubble out of my crudded blonde hair" (45).

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"My shift was plain, but it was still a dress" (65).

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Flora loves to do the dirty work in her family, doesn't really care for her appearance compared to her siblings.

"Nothing for it but to pretend you're a waif. If anyone asks, we hired you to weed the yard" (34).

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"The Signoria was the council of leading the citizens of Florence" (20)

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Flora, at the moment of my reading, is ignorant of real world problems

"For the past hour some poor soul has been screaming non stop. His cries curdle my blood, but you don't hear them. Very few get what they want in this life. Why do you keep asking for perfection. I think you are spoiled in deed" (78).

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"In the midst of the Italian Renaissance" (Preface)

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Flora steals from her family to accomplish her dream of running away.

"...I thought that perhaps it was time for me to stop stealing" (52).