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Updated: May 27, 2025
But one of the special points which are recorded by the chroniclers as working in him to madness, was that he was senza parentado without any backing of relationship or allies i.e., sonless, with no one to come after him. How little likely then was an old man to embark on such a desperate venture for self-aggrandizement merely.
But the old man thus translated from active life and power, soon became bitterly sensible in his new position that he was senza parentado, with few relations, and flouted by the giovinastri, the dissolute young gentlemen who swaggered about the Broglio in their finery, strong in the support of fathers and uncles.
But since Tito's coming, there was no longer the same monotony in the thought that Bardo's name suggested; the old man, it was understood, had left off his plaints, and the fair daughter was no longer to be shut up in dowerless pride, waiting for a parentado.
Besides, thou wilt marry; Bernardo reproaches me that I do not seek a fitting parentado for thee, and we will delay no longer, we will think about it." "No, no, father; what could you do? besides, it is useless: wait till some one seeks me," said Romola, hastily. "Nay, my child, that is not the paternal duty.
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