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Summertime madness song5/21/2023 ![]() As they return to the pensione, Renato kisses Jane, and she responds passionately and murmurs, "I love you", before rushing off to her room. Later, as the couple wander through Venice, Jane drops her gardenia into a canal despite much effort, Renato is unable to retrieve it for her. When a flower seller approaches them, Renato is surprised when Jane chooses a simple gardenia instead of an orchid. The couple attend the moonlit concert in the piazza, where an orchestra plays the overture to La gazza ladra. Jane's anger subsides, and the promise of Rossini in the Piazza San Marco convinces her to accept his invitation. Renato realizes that Jane now thinks he has swindled her, but he assures her that the same designs have been used for centuries in Venice and he insists that her goblet is a genuine antique. She seems on the verge of agreeing to have dinner with him when the McIlhennys return from a shopping trip to Murano where they purchased a set of new red goblets similar to the one Jane bought. When Jane resists his advances, he warns her not to waste an opportunity for happiness. That evening, de Rossi comes to her pensione and confesses his attraction for her. She begs Mauro to take her home to the Pensione Fiorini. Jane is humiliated when she accidentally steps backward into a canal while filming de Rossi's shop. The next morning, Jane returns to the shop with Mauro, and is disappointed to discover that Renato is not there. Hoping to see her again, Renato offers to search for a matching goblet. He assures her that the goblet is an authentic 18th-century artifact, and she purchases it after he teaches her the art of bargaining. ![]() Upon entering the shop, she discovers that the owner, Renato de Rossi, is the man from whom she had fled the night before. The following day, Jane goes shopping and sees a red glass goblet in the window of an antiques store. While seated at an outdoor caffè, she becomes aware of a lone Italian man watching her panicking, she quickly leaves. On her first evening in Venice, Jane walks to the Piazza San Marco, where the sight of so many romantic couples intensifies her loneliness. Jane is pestered off and on during her stay by Mauro, a friendly Italian street urchin. Also staying at the property are Eddie Yaeger, a young American painter, and his wife Phyl. At the hotel, they are greeted by Signora Fiorini, a widow who has converted her home into a pensione. On the vaporetto to her hotel, she meets two fellow Americans, Lloyd and Edith McIlhenny. ![]() Jane Hudson is an unmarried, middle-aged, self-described "fancy secretary" from Akron, Ohio, on her summer vacation, enjoying her lifelong dream of a trip to Venice after having saved money for it over several years.
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