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ldquo;The Vendettardquo; is a novel by the French writer Honoreacute; de Balzac. It is the eighth of the Scegrave;nes de la vie priveacute;e (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comeacute;die humaine. ldquo;The Vendettardquo; is a short work relating the tragic fate of Ginevra Piombo; the daughter of proud Corsican immigrants; who has the misfortune of falling in love with another Corsican Luigi Porta. When it becomes known that Luigi is the sole survivor of a massacre in which the rest of his family were the victims of a bloody vendetta with Ginevras family; Ginevras father Bartolomeo is determined to complete the act of vengeance by having him killed. But Ginevra refuses to yield to her fathers demands and she and Luigi are marriedhellip;