Cesare Gravina

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of a despotic king, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.

A young, impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter, but his parents wish him to marry for money and are against it.