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Believing Bovo to be dead, Druzane agrees to marry a knight named
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The narrative begins with Bovo's young mother plotting to have her elderly husband, the king, killed during a hunt. Following his death, she marries the murderer. The couple attempts to poison Bovo, fearing he will seek revenge, but he escapes to
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