Vinicius, a young Roman patrician, falls for Lygia, a hostage princess who has secretly become a Christian. His pursuit of her pulls him from the cynical court of Nero and the elegant Petronius into the hidden world of the early Church, through the great fire of Rome and the persecution that follows.
The international bestseller by the Polish novelist who won the 1905 Nobel Prize, in Jeremiah Curtin’s translation. Download the free EPUB.