Fior d'amore e fior di morte Filming Locations

Count Ferdinand and his beautiful countess lived alone in the great castle overhanging the sea. Unbeknown even to himself, Anton, a pretty boy page employed by the count, fell boyishly in love with the countess. As a token of his affection, each day the lad placed a white carnation on the window-sill. Discovering the flower in the window one afternoon, the count upbraided his wife for her lack of faithfulness. The following day, coming suddenly around a corner, the count was electrified to see Anton gently placing his little token of love in its usual place. Insanely angry, the count sprang upon the boy and beat him to death. There was sorrow in the home of the widowed mother and sister when the little body was roughly tossed across the bed. Marguerita, the sister, took a solemn oath to be avenged for the cruel murder. Quite accidentally, the count met pretty Marguerita and in the days that followed she let him woo her, until she found chance to ask that she he let into his home as page. So she cut her long hair and donned the uniform of a boy page and entered the home of her brother's murderer. Time passed and Marguerita allowed no opportunity to slip by that did not bring her closer to vengeance. The countess by degrees and against her will, grew to love the handsome boy, and the count could neither eat nor sleep for thought of her. And then came the day of the vengeance. She plotted with the count to destroy the countess by poison, promising to marry him on the death of his wife. Deeply remorseful, but determined, the count dropped the deadly acid in her wine. Then Marguerita, promising to marry the countess should she dispose of her husband, told her of the poison in the wine. The countess, simulating sickness at the table, retired to her room. The count, convinced that she was dying, influenced by Marguerita, went to her bedside, knife in hand, to end her misery. But before he could strike, the blade of the countess sunk into him and the murderous villain dropped dead at her feet. Slipping from the tragic scene, Marguerita changed into woman's clothes, faced the countess, and revealed her identity.