The New International Encyclopædia/Consuelo

CONSUELO, kō̇n-swā′lō̇. A famous novel by George Sand (1842) and the name of its chief character, a little Spanish girl abandoned in Italy, whose voice attracts the old maestro Porpora. Through him she is presented to Count Zustiniani, and the latter, after her successful début on the stage, falls in love with her, but is repulsed. When her early lover Angoletto forgets her she is sent by Porpora to the home of a German family in Bohemia. Her entrance into this household prepares the way for the sequel, La Comtesse de Rudolstadt.