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Cosimo, Biagio, and Battista’s uncle; he’s Baron Arminio’s illegitimate brother. The cavalier avvocato spent much of his youth in a Muslim country (Biagio suspects Turkey) and was extremely happy there. There, he learned about hydraulics and aqueduct systems and was supposedly in contact with sultans and other people of major import. The cavalier avvocato ends up back in Italy when Cosimo and Biagio are young, and they dislike him and distrust him from the start. This is in part because he speaks more Turkish than French or Italian, and partly because he seems so wildly unhappy and stifled. This, however, is mostly a product of Baron Arminio’s treatment of his brother. Though Biagio recognizes that Baron Arminio must’ve loved his brother, Baron Arminio is overbearing and often talks over the cavalier avvocato. He also makes the cavalier avvocato keep the estate’s records, a difficult task. Despite having very practical skills, the cavalier avvocato is extremely idealistic and struggles to finish everything he starts. However, Cosimo begins to reevaluate his thoughts on his uncle when he discovers that the cavalier avvocato keeps bees, as this makes Cosimo think that the cavalier avvocato is not so strange after all—he is simply a private person. Cosimo also takes the cavalier avvocato as an example of how not to be: the cavalier avvocato separates himself from society as much as possible, something that Cosimo takes great care not to do. The cavalier avvocato dies when Cosimo catches him working with Turkish pirates to steal goods from Ombrosa. His death is tragic, as Cosimo recognizes that the Turkish pirates who behead him believe he ratted them out—when all he really wanted was likely to return to the only place he was ever happy. Cosimo tells fantastical stories about the cavalier avvocato’s death after the fact, in part to make Baron Arminio feel better.
Cavalier Avvocato Enea Silvio Carrega Quotes in The Baron in the Trees
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Chapter 11
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Understanding the character of Enea Silvio Carrega helped Cosimo in this: he understood many things about being alone that were useful to him later in life. I would say that he always carried with him the troubled image of the cavalier avvocato, as a warning of what a man who separates his fate from that of others can become, and he was successful in that he never came to resemble him.
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Maybe it was a version dictated by the thought of his father, whose grief would be so great at the news of his half-brother’s death and at the sight of those pitiful remains that Cosimo didn’t have the heart to burden him with the revelation of the cavaliere’s treason. In fact, later, hearing of the depression into which the baron had fallen, he tried to construct for our natural uncle a fictitious glory, inventing a secret and shrewd struggle to defeat the pirates, to which he had supposedly been devoting himself for some time and which, discovered, had led him to his death.
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Chapter 11
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Understanding the character of Enea Silvio Carrega helped Cosimo in this: he understood many things about being alone that were useful to him later in life. I would say that he always carried with him the troubled image of the cavalier avvocato, as a warning of what a man who separates his fate from that of others can become, and he was successful in that he never came to resemble him.
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Chapter 16
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Maybe it was a version dictated by the thought of his father, whose grief would be so great at the news of his half-brother’s death and at the sight of those pitiful remains that Cosimo didn’t have the heart to burden him with the revelation of the cavaliere’s treason. In fact, later, hearing of the depression into which the baron had fallen, he tried to construct for our natural uncle a fictitious glory, inventing a secret and shrewd struggle to defeat the pirates, to which he had supposedly been devoting himself for some time and which, discovered, had led him to his death.
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