{"date":"May 22","id":"05-22","intro":["Because of a fancy for a peasant girl, the tyrannical lord of an Italian village sent desperadoes to threaten the priest if he married the girl to her village lover."],"minutes":34,"readings":[{"author":"Alessandro Manzoni","end":24,"start":7,"volume":21,"work":"I Promessi Sposi"}],"slug":"may-22","status":"proofread","title":"True Love in Difficulty","url":"/harvard-classics/may-22/","words":6833}