The Betrothed: Milanese history of the 17th century, Francesco Gonin

Renzo, almost illiterate, uses a secretary who knows how to read and write to help him communicate with agnese and lucia. Having learned from the secretary that lucia had made a vow to the madonna "he almost took it out on the interpreter: he trembled, he was horrified, he was furious. ". I promessi sposi 334