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CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL
1. Messina, August 15, 1839. The reception at the Padellani home for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2. During the procession Agata Padellani has a secret meeting with her inamorato, Giacomo Lepre
3. The earthquake and the illness of Field Marshal Padellani
4. September 17, 1839. Birth of an infant prince and death of the field marshal Padellani. During the crossing to Naples, Agata confides in Captain James Garson
5. Autumn in Naples. The scathing humiliations of poor relations. Agata can’t understand what her mother wants from her
6. Winter 1840. The last months of hope
7. Preparations for the wedding of Anna Carolina Padellani; Agata instead receives a tray of pastries from her aunt the abbess
8. April 20, 1840. Reluctantly, Agata goes to visit the convent of San Giorgio Stilita
9. The wedding of Anna Carolina Padellani and Fidenzio Carnevale
10. May 11th, 1840. Agata enters the convent of San Giorgio Stilita
11. The grueling two months of probation
12. Two sisters-in-law discuss what to do about their niece’s unhappiness
13. End of August 1840. The betrayal of Donna Gesuela Padellani
14. After the miracle of the Madonna dell’Utria, Agata denies her vocation, falls ill, offends the cardinal, and finally leaves for her Aunt Orsola Padellani’s house
15. Agata discovers that her mother wants to marry her off to another man and decides to go back to the convent
16. Donna Gesuela Padellani arrives in Naples to remove Agata from the convent but she refuses to leave
17. The vestition of Agata the educand
18. The educandate of Agata
19. Agata thinks about love while kneading bread dough
20. April 1841. Agata comes to know her father through the stories told her by her aunt the abbess and she develops a bond with her
21. October 1842. Agata the postulant becomes an assistant pharmacist
22. January 1844. Agata is certain that she prefers nunhood to the marriage her mother wants for her
23. November 1844. Agata, captivated by the novels that James sends her, wants something else, something more, doubts whether she has the vocation, and has a talk with the cardinal
24. April 1845. On the verge of her simple profession, Agata withdraws but then gives in
25. Agata spends the last two weeks with her family before beginning her cloistered life and she encounters James
26. June 18th, 1845. The simple profession
27. June 18th, 1846. The solemn profession
28. The daily life of Donna Maria Ninfa, new chorister nun
29. September 1846. Agata believes she can overcome the murkiest aspects of the cloistered life by taking on the office of sister infirmarian
30. January 1847. The death of her aunt the abbess, the death of Donna Maria Celeste, and the death of the cook Brida
31. February 1847. Angiola Maria and Checchina, lay sisters of the Padellani nuns, run away from the convent of San Giorgio Stilita and there are murmurings against Agata
32. The new abbess is opposed to Agata; the cardinal denies her brevi
33. April 1847. Agata is not well loved at the convent and does everything within her power to leave the cloistered life
34. May 1847. The cardinal learns that someone tried to hurt Agata and he removes her from the convent of San Giorgio Stilita
35. June 1847. At the conservatory of Smirne. Agata can leave and walk around Naples; she receives a letter from James
36. July 1847. The doorkeeper of the conservatory of Smirne refuses to admit Agata, who has returned late
37. August-October 1847. The terrible punishment for Agata in love: isolation
38. October 1847. Agata heals the abbess and obtains privileges; suddenly, the cardinal sends her to Sicily
39. In Palermo at her mother’s house
40. January 1848. Agata leaves Palermo on the cardinal’s orders
41. In Chiana, in the Benedictine convent of the Santissismo Sacramento
42. The long journey to reach her beloved
43. The ship docks at Naples and Agata is abducted by an unknown woman
44. In the Garden of Minerva, in Salerno
45. April 1848. Checchina is left alone
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