Oswald, Lord Nelvil, a grieving Scottish peer, travels to Italy and sees the poet Corinne crowned at the Capitol in Rome. As she guides him through the city’s monuments, art and landscapes, their love is tested by his loyalty to his dead father’s wishes and English ideas of what a wife should be.
A landmark of Romantic fiction and of writing about women of genius, here with verse rendered by L. E. L. Download the free EPUB.