Andrea decides to open his heart to Agnese and confide the whole truth, but the shadows are plotting Lucrezia and Captain Loya, motivated by different reasons, but both with the firm intention to destroy their love. Elisa steals the key from Alvise and persuades Anna that she must go to Turin and testify for his brother. Agnese does not intend to yield to pressure the sister, and soon know a young man at a party where you will immediately fall in love: the Marquis Andrea Casalegno ( Giulio Berruti). Lucrezia decides to kill Elisa, because it is the only obstacle to her happiness with Fabrizio and to the top of power. Then Lucrezia convinces her to try to escape Fabrizio from prison, arguing that what she are doing, it for purely emotional, because Fabrizio Ristori was the only love of her life.

Elisa Scalzi is a poor but beautiful and determined young lady, who pleasantly takes care of the old Countess Agnese Ristori of Rivombrosa. Count Ristori testify against Lucretia and Ranieri, accusing them of murder of Beauville and treason. Its only flaw is that he squandered the entire fortune at the gaming tables, thus making it impossible to provide a stable future with his wife and daughters. I costumi spettacolari e curati nei particolari come anche le scene di vita quotidiana nelle varie ambientazioni, sia quelle aristocratiche che quelle dei popolani sono un godimento per gli occhi.

For Elisa, who has motherly feelings towards Martino the news is a huge blow, but she does not deny Lucrezia the right to take "her" child with her. Meanwhile, in Turin, the process continue, as a result of testimony commander leading the investigation into the death of Giulio Drago, comes to light that it was thanks to Elisa, that investigation was discontinued. Lucrezia try to kill Agnes, but Martin, in self-defense, intervenes and shoots the Marquise, killing her instantly.

Begins an affair with Victoria, which eventually will stop abruptly, triggering the fatal jealousy of the woman. With the passage of time his mental state worse, compromised even by drug abuse, to push him to groped a rape against Costanza. Princess Luisa di Carignano | Mild, gentle and refined, the Princess of Carignano is the character of higher rank in the series.

During the meeting between Jean Luc Beauville and Fabrizio, appears Lucretia and kills her husband and throws all the blame on Fabrizio Ristori. Opposed by his brother, who has a strong prejudice against the French, Dorina is several times less than the fraternal prohibitions, convinced (rightly) that his love will go far.

Their love is hindered by a conspiracy led by Lucrezia, a noblewoman who also fell in love with Fabrizio.Fulvio Gritti | Selfish, vulgar, crude and unstable, Fulvio is the husband of Emilia, florentine painter of great talent but little fame.

In that moment, the carriage of the marchioness Lucrezia Van Necker, Fabrizio's former lover, arrives and the count tries to make Elisa jealous by flirting with the marchioness in front of her. At the last minute Fabrizio informs Elisa, where he had hid the list and allows her to escape, he giving up. The Countess's health gets worse and she keeps expressing her desire to see her son, the charming Count Fabrizio Ristori, who has been enlisted in the French army for the past 10 years. They organize a special dinner, in which van Necker and other nobles are invited to confirm that Fabrizio is crazy since he wants to marry a servant.Giulio Drago is one of the conspirators, and as soon as he's informed that Duke Ranieri tried to hurt his friend, he argues with Lucrezia and the Duke, and leaves the conspirators' meeting in which they plot to attack the king. Although at the beginning does not contradict never Loya, with the passage of time proves to be a brave man, ready to do anything to support the ideals in which he has always believed.