a history of the past, when the Po down in the swampy alluvial soils and in the countryside. A history of poor people but also of struggle and love that takes place in Ferrara. Bacchelliana impeccable intonation in the context of environmental descriptions, the novel moves in its plot around the dominant figure of the Scalabrino Marangon and, like other Malacarne, bandit and thief merchants. Eulalia's daughter Scalabrino, Malacarne lover, then wife of Marangon ... for a great novel of '800