Crossword-Solution: BRANDINI 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The reason was as follows: I complained of some abominable acts of injustice done to me by Messer Alfonso Quistelli, Messer Jacopo Polverino of the Exchequer, and more than all by Ser Giovanbattista Brandini of Volterra.

Presently the violence of the tempest abated, and the pallid Brandini approached Teresa, who had not changed her position, and had forgotten in the storm almost the existence of her persecutor, and in a low, dogged voice, said: "I am waiting for your reply." With a faint shriek Teresa raised her head.

Turning to him, what was her horror at seeing not Leonarde Da Vinci, as she had supposed, but Villani Brandini, a rejected suitor, and seeming friend to Da Vinci, who had discovered the plan of escape by some means, and revenged himself upon the lady in this manner.

Viola, as we must now call her, after an instant's silence, disengaged herself, saying; "We must not forget that we can never be more than friends, Leonarde." "Never more than friends, Viola! Why do you not know that you are free?" "Free! What is it you mean?" "Is it possible you still believe yourself Brandini's wife?" "Believe myself! Am I not?" "No, my own dearest Viola! It was no priest who performed that ceremony.

Two years since, a dying man confessed that for a large sum he had assumed the character of a minister of God, and performed a mock marriage between Brandini and yourself.