Adelaide di Guesclino

About the show

In Brittany during the Hundred Years' War, Carlo, Duke of Vendôme, and his brother Ernesto, Duke of Nemours, support opposing sides. Ernesto and the Breton noblewoman Adelaide love one another, but Carlo is also in love with her and, in jealous anger, orders Ernesto's death. Overcome by remorse, Carlo learns to his relief that the order was not carried out.