Simon Boccanegra
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In the prologue, set in 1339, Simone is a buccaneer in the service of the Genoese Republic, completely infatuated with Maria, the daughter of the Fieschi family. The two of them had a child together, out of wedlock, and since then her family has kept her trapped in her
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