Synopsis
- Time: 15th-century
- Place: Pisa, Italy, during an armed conflict with the city under siege.
Act I is divided into three scenes.
Guido, the military commander in Pisa, learns from his father that the enemy will cease conflict if Monna Vanna, wife of Guido, goes to the enemy's camp, but dressed only in a mantle. Monna Vanna agrees to this demand.
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