Just recently aired on Mediaset channels a TV series adapted from Stendhal's masterpiece, The Abbess of Castro, recently republished by Edizioni Marco Valerio.

Directed by Giorgio Serafini, Giulio Berruti, Cosima Coppola, Anna Safroncik, Sabina Began, Enrico Lo Verso, Alessandra Barzaghi, Oppini Franco, Adriano Pappalardo, Davide Paganini, Alexander Pessa, Anna Galiena, based loosely on the story "The Abbess of Castro "Stendhal's" The Falcon and the Dove "is a story of passion and intrigue in papal Rome of the '500. Giulio Branciforte was a captain of humble origins in the pay of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, who seeks to unseat Pope Clement VII from the papal throne. Elena Campireali belongs to a wealthy family of Albano, faithful to Clement VII, and is tied to the mother who provided for his daughter a marriage of the Prince Savelli, a powerful banker. Julius and Helen could not be more different: for wealth, for the rivalry of their social circles, for a fate that seems to have written the opposite. Yet they fall in love. But their story is intended to challenge social conventions and political opportunism ...

For fans, Youtube offers the opportunity to review the six episodes of the miniseries.