Moreover, Haidée's father, Lambro, is a pirate and a slaver who dislikes Don Juan, and has him enslaved and sent to Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire.Ī digression. Haidée and Juan fall in love, despite neither speaking nor understanding the language of the other.
Upon landfall at one of the Cyclades islands, two women, Haidée and Zoe, her maid, discover the shipwrecked Juan and care for him in a cave at the beach. Juan is the sole survivor of the shipwreck and the escape in the long boat.
Afterwards, the sailors turn cannibal and eat Pedrillo later, the cannibal sailors go mad and die. Adrift in the Aegean Sea, they soon exhaust their supplies of food and eat Don Juan's dog. A storm wrecks the ship Juan, his entourage, and some sailors escape in a long boat. Throughout the voyage, Juan pines for the love of Donna Julia, but seasickness distracts him.
Don Juan travels to Cádiz, accompanied by Pedrillo, a tutor, and servants. While Don Alfonso punishes his faithless wife, Donna Julia, by interning her to a nunnery.Įxiled from Seville. To thwart rumours and the consequent bad reputation that her son has brought upon himself, Donna Inez sends Don Juan away to travel Europe, in hope that he develop a better sense of morality. Breaking off the fight with Don Alfonso, Don Juan escapes. Later returning alone to his bedroom, Don Alfonso comes across Juan's shoes and they fight for the woman, Donna Julia. Suspecting his wife's infidelity, Don Alfonso bursts into their bedroom, followed by his bodyguards who find no-one and nothing suspicious upon searching their master's bedroom, for Juan was hiding in the bed Don Alfonso and his posse leave the room. Despite attempting to resist his charms, Julia enters into a love affair with Juan, and falls in love. The romantic Donna Julia, the twenty-three-year-old wife of Don Alfonso, fancies and lusts for the sixteen-year-old boy Don Juan. Don Juan lives in Seville with his father, Don José, and his mother, Donna Inez.
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