RomolaBroadview Press, 29 abr 2005 - 256 páginas The most exotic of George Eliot’s works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author’s favourite. No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them. |
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... less authentic ; and in his old age he had made haste to look at the early sheets of that fine Homer which was among the carly glories of the Floren- tine press . But he had not , for all that , neg- lected to hang up a waxen image or ...
... less you will . " my stomach turned against the testoni I'd never bargained for , till it came into my head that San Giovanni owed me the pieces for what I spend yearly at the Festa : besides , I buried the body and paid for a mass ...
... less innocent and astonished than those of our own period ; there were doves and singing - birds to be bought as presents for the children ; there were even kit- tens for sale , and here and there a handsome gattuccio , or " Tom ...
... less true that every revelation , whether by visions , dreams , portents , or the written word , has many mean- ings , which it is given to the illuminated only to unfold . " The speaker had joined the group only in time to hear the ...
... less barbarous accent , and a less enig- matical business . Is it a common thing among you Florentines for an itinerant trafficker in broken glass and rags to talk of a shop where he sells lutes and swords ? " " Common ? No : our Bratti ...
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A LEARNED SQUABBLE | 39 |
A FACE IN THE CROWD | 41 |
THE TABERNACLE UNLOCKED | 144 |
THE BLACK MARKS BECOME MAGICAL | 147 |
A SUPPER IN THE RUCELLAI GARDENS | 149 |
AN ARRESTING VOICE | 157 |
COMING BACK | 161 |
ROMOLA IN HER PLACE | 162 |
THE UNSEEN MADONNA | 165 |
THE VISIBLE MADONNA | 168 |
A MANS HANSOM | 47 |
UNDER THE PLANETREE | 50 |
TITOS DILEMMA | 56 |
THE PRIZE IS NEARLY GRASPED | 57 |
THE SHADOW OF NEMESIS | 63 |
THE PEASANTS FAIR | 66 |
THE DYING MESSAGE | 73 |
A FLORENTINE JOKE | 77 |
UNDER THE LOGGIA | 83 |
THE PORTRAIT | 86 |
THE OLD MANS HOPE | 88 |
THE DAY OF THE BETROTHAL | 90 |
FLORENCE EXPECTS A GUEST | 94 |
THE PRISONERS | 97 |
AFTERTHOUGHTS | 101 |
INSIDE THE DUOMO | 102 |
OUTSIDE THE DUOMO | 104 |
THE GARMENT OF FEAR | 106 |
THE YOUNG WIFE | 109 |
THE PAINTED RECORD | 114 |
A MOMENT OF TRIUMPH | 117 |
THE AVENGERS SECRET | 120 |
FRUIT 18 SEED | 124 |
A REVELATION | 126 |
BALDASSARRE MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE | 130 |
NO PLACE FOB REPENTANCE | 134 |
WHAT FLORENCE WAS THINKING OF | 139 |
ARIADNE DISCROWNS HERSELF | 140 |
AT THE BARBERS SHOP | 171 |
BY A STREET LAMP | 175 |
CHECK | 179 |
COUNTERCHECK | 180 |
THE PYRAMID OP VANITIES | 182 |
TESSA ABROAD AND AT HOME | 185 |
MONNA BRIGIDAS CONVERSION | 189 |
A PROPHETESS | 192 |
ON SAM MINIATO | 195 |
THE OTHER WIFE | 200 |
WHY TITO WAS SAFE | 206 |
A FINAL UNDERSTANDING | 208 |
PLEADING | 210 |
THE SCAFFOLD | 214 |
DRIFTING AWAY | 217 |
THE BENEDICTION | 219 |
RIPENING SCHEMES | 221 |
THE PROPHET IN HIS CELL | 226 |
THE TRIAL BY FIRE | 229 |
A MASQUE OF THE FURIES | 232 |
WAITING BY THE RIVER | 234 |
ROMOLAS WAKING | 237 |
HOMEWARD | 241 |
MEETING AGAIN | 242 |
THE CONFESSION | 244 |
THE LAST SILENCE | 247 |
EPILOGUE | 248 |