April 1944 Summary

Casa di Goletta, Valdottavo

Santino Cicala is helping Battista Goletta build a new stonewall when Don Leto appears to tell him that a meeting with Claudia has been arranged for him in Santa Chiara, where she is called Claudia Fiori. Santino is a master stonemason and tells Leto that the wall's strength comes from the inside, as well as from what you see.

Rectory - Church of San Mauro

Adele Toselli has scraped together a feast for the courting Santino and Claudia. Alberto Fiori, formerly Alberto Blum, has passed away from typhus and a weak heart. Don Leto carved a small six-pointed star at the bottom of his gravestone.

Claudia agrees to marry Santino and live in Santa Chiara. He vows to Alberto's grave that he will find Claudia's mother and brothers.

With a distinct, heavy German accent, Renzo appears, no longer as...