The Mill on the Po (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Riccardo Bacchelli
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1812-1872
- Setting: The region of the Po River, near Ferrera, Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Tricks, Nineteenth century, Death or dying, Rivers or waterways, Smuggling or smugglers, Floods, Italy or Italians, Mills or millwork
- Locales: Italy, Ferrara, Italy
Characters Discussed
Lazzaro Scacerni (lahz-ZAH-roh ska-CHEHR-nee), owner of St. Michael’s mill on the Po River. He builds the mill with money inherited from a dying captain he met in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Russian campaign. Although illiterate, he creates a good business and maintains his mill through the adversities of flood, war, and political upheaval. He hates the smugglers in the neighborhood who use his beloved mill as a rendezvous, and he is outraged when his own son becomes involved in smuggling grain to the Austrian enemy in the 1840’s.
Giuseppe Scacerni...
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