Plot

"Miseria e Nobiltà" tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a rich but simple cook, so they pose as aristocrats.

Felice and Pasquale live with their families in the same flat and they lead an hard life of quarrelles and poverty. One day the marques Eugenio, in love with Gemma, daughter of an ex cook get rich, proposes to Felice and Pasquale doing the false aristocratic Gemmas relatives. Wearing wonderful clothes, they play their role and they are received very well. Gemma and Eugenio will get married after a lot of vicissitudes.