A young Spanish woman who becomes Cosimo’s first love. Their love is fun and passionate, and Ursula is thrilled when her father, Don Frederico, invites Cosimo to marry Ursula and return to Granada with them. Years after Cosimo and Ursula part, Father Sulpicio tells Cosimo that Ursula died in a convent, but Biagio suspects that this is a lie designed to hurt Cosimo.
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Ursula Character Timeline in The Baron in the Trees
The timeline below shows where the character Ursula appears in The Baron in the Trees. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 17
...to suffer and hope. One day, Cosimo notices a beautiful young woman. Her name is Ursula and she’s Don Frederico’s daughter. Cosimo impresses her by picking an out-of-reach rose and then...
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Chapter 18
Cosimo and Ursula spend their days in the blooming fruit trees. Cosimo makes himself useful by teaching the...
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...suspicious, as Don Frederico stops pretending he doesn’t know what’s going on between Cosimo and Ursula.
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...and displeasure, insinuates that Cosimo needs to build a house if he wants to marry Ursula. He brushes aside Father Sulpicio’s concerns that Cosimo reads Voltaire and invites Cosimo to come...
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Chapter 25
...a sheet strung up between trees to catch nuts. Father Sulpicio joins him, declares that Ursula died in a convent (which Biagio thinks is a lie), and Cosimo stabs his adversary...
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