THE PROMISES SPOUSES "At that act everyone fled; horrified; and Renzo saw nothing but backs of enemies ...". Chased by the crowd that accuses him absurdly of being an antor; Renzo escapes the lynching by taking refuge on a hearse; but the pursuers do not give up; a monatto definitively drives away even the last stubborn persecutors threatening them to throw a rag of the plague victims. Illustration for the XXXIV chapter of the historical novel composed by Alessandro Manzoni (7 March 1785 - 22 May 1873) in the first half of the nineteenth century. Chromolithography; Milan; around 1925.