ML was filth. He had a fiancee, yet he stalked and seduced the FL (when she was drunk, no less), then left her alone. He was also in cahoots with the lawyer who was handling HER inheritance, hired a detective to break into her room and car and search through all her private things, and pretty much tried to make a prisoner of her. All this because mommy [betrayed] him by marrying someone when he (ML) was 21 years old. Can we say creepy mommy-con with an Oedipus complex? Then we have wussy, entitled, thief little brother. And after all this betrayal, the FL (who has lost all her critical faculties, if she ever had any) is totally in love with ML. The only one worth a s&*t in this story was John, who was saddled with two man-babies as stepsons when his wife died. He should have left his half of the palazzo to someone running a trombone testing facility.
The Venetian's Proposal