https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31 Mary Jane Beaufrand en-us 2019-03-25 12:47:16 UTC 2019-03-28 18:15:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/359114930/0886214f1562bb362cffd3b193fd1058/ItalianFlag.jpeg s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344788985 Lorenza Pazzi
"My name is Lorenza Pazzi" (10).]]> 2019-03-25 12:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344788985 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344794808 Mary Jane Beaufrand]]> 2019-03-25 13:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344794808 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344794935 "In the midst of the Italian Renaissance" (Preface)]]> 2019-03-25 13:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344794935 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344795003 Beaufrand, Mary Jane. Primavera. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.]]> 2019-03-25 13:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344795003 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344795101 2019-03-25 13:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344795101 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344816881 Flora
"...Lorenza Pazzi, but everyone called me Flora" (10).]]> 2019-03-25 13:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344816881 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817051 "The Signoria was the council of leading the citizens of Florence" (20)]]> 2019-03-25 13:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817051 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817150 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817150 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817471 "My shift was plain, but it was still a dress" (65).]]> 2019-03-25 13:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817471 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817578 "Nonna scrubbed the rubble out of my crudded blonde hair" (45).]]> 2019-03-25 13:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817578 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817623 "My shift was plain, but it was still a dress. And with my long hair I was still clearly a girl" (65).]]> 2019-03-25 13:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817623 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817725 "Flora, beauty is in the eye of the beholder carina, or in your case those hazelnut eyes" (62).]]> 2019-03-25 13:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817725 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817773 "I pulled the florin that I had stolen and put it to my collect sack of florins then put it under my pillow" (]]> 2019-03-25 13:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817773 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817958 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344817958 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818035 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)]]> 2019-03-25 13:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818035 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818139 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818139 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818208 2019-03-25 13:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818208 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818280 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818280 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818389 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818389 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818486 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)]]> 2019-03-25 13:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818486 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818640 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818640 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818756 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)]]> 2019-03-25 13:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818756 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818838 "This poverino I must help him, he looks as if he will topple over at anytime" (43).]]> 2019-03-25 13:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818838 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818967 The words used are actually words of nobility so there is no slang 

"Sprezzatura" (13)
"Mazzocchio" (13)
"strega" (25)]]> 2019-03-25 13:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344818967 s_samuel_rodriguez https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344819104 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).]]> 2019-03-25 13:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/s_samuel_rodriguez/qp0bkdpmqn31/wish/344819104