The Orsini Affair

<p><strong>A Ghastly Crime - Decades Later Revenge</strong><br /><br />A nun is violated. Twelve years later a young Roma girl is also raped.<br /><br />Both violations result in pregnancies. The nun twin boys; the young girl a boy - Manfri. The villain in both cases is the same man - a priest Vittorio Alonso Orsini years later to be appointed Archbishop of Milan.<br /><br />The Orsini are a powerful family with close ties to the Vatican. They are hopeful that Vittorio will one day become Pope. Already there have been two Orsini popes. They are anxious for a third.<br /><br />But Vittorio has a dark side to him. He is a rapist.<br /><br />We follow both victims over the next several decades.<br /><br />Ultimately the young Roma girl takes her revenge.<br /><br /></p>