Il Marchese Del Grillo - Plot

Plot

Rome, Year of our Lord 1809. The Pope Pius VII in Italy manages both temporal and spiritual power of the State with his cardinals and ministers. The Marquis Onofrio del Grillo is one of his favorites, but even the worst of all the nobility, since I do not think of messing latro that is inappropriate for members of the Church and those of his family. In fact Onofrio, being protected by the pope, has no fear of ending up in the hands of the guards, or in front of the Executioner for his pranks, which often hit the poor people who are dying of hunger, like the sequence of memorable dinner at the tavern where he is drawn between the criminals conducted under arrest and escorted the carriage. Before he enter with a wry smile turns to the populace in a vulgar and direct claiming to be noble and do what he wants, and that they, being poor, not worth anything. Memorable is the dispute between the poor carpenter jew Aaron Piperno and theMarquis for the payment of salary. Aaron is amazed when the Onofrio said they did not want to pay as a jew and murderess of Jesus, but also for the sake of having banged against a piece done by him. Aaron the complaint but Onofrio to win corrupts all the judges and the cardinals to prove to people that you always have the knife by the handle. Aaron Piperno is condemned and mocked by all the people that strikes him and throws him in the face vegetables and eggs. However, things begin to change when Onofrio in Rome begin to penetrate the guards of the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, already excommunicated by the pope, lay siege to the city. Onofrio initially there is so much to think about and even becomes friends with a young gendarme of the French army, a shocking fact for those times and especially for the elderly mother of Onofrio's view that the French, as they are enemies of the Pope King are also sworn enemies of God

And so Onofrio is forced from looking good from bad company attend, as with an affair with a lovely maid, because Napoleon when no one expects it, and without the Italian army to intervene because until then had never existed exception of the Swiss Guards of the Pope, the Holy See and bursts ago prisoner Pius VII. Onofrio del Grillo was appointed a few days before the Pope's own bodyguard, so to save the situation, according to enjoy a servant in his house, he pretends to hurt for trying to defend the safety of the Pope by Napoleon's troops. But the imprisonment of the Pope did not last long and in that time many French theater companies come to Rome to stage various plays. However, the Italian people not accustomed to modern techniques and renovated the theater, such as the introduction of the woman as an actress for female roles, and the matrons of Rome considers them of dirty running around dressed naked instead praise the progress of non- introduce more sex neutered and stage roles for women. The show announced in Rome so because of ignorance and obtuseness of the Roman people proves to be a resounding failure, but Onofrio never misses an opportunity to woo one of the young actresses. One night they go around the ruins of the city when they see a drunk man equal to the Marchese del Grillo. It is the poor that will be used by coal Gasperino Onofrio for one of his many admirable jokes, as like him as a drop of water.