Stella Violanti

Summary

Stella, daughter of a banker from Zakynthos, loves a poor telegraph operator. Her father wants her to marry a rich man, but Stella refuses and her father locks her in the attic, where she lives in isolation. When she learns that the telegraph operator only wanted her fortune, that he did not truly love her, and that he is marrying the daughter of a nobleman, Stella Violanti collapses mentally and physically, and her death is inevitable.