THE PROMISES I SPOSED "... the father added; in an altered voice: the heart tells me that we will meet again soon". Lucia; Agnese and Renzo take their leave from Fra Cristoforo; who organized the plan to save them: the two women will go to a convent near Monza; while the young man will find refuge in Milan. Illustration for chapter VIII 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.