Don Orsino Saracinesca, heir to an old princely house, is bored by the idle life expected of him in the new Rome of the 1880s. He plunges into the building boom that is transforming the city, falls in love with the mysterious Madame d’Aranjuez and discovers how business, debt and family pride can entangle the old aristocracy.
The third Saracinesca novel, a rich portrait of Roman society in a time of change by one of America’s most popular novelists. Download the free EPUB.