Rome in 1865 is still the city of the popes, with narrow lanes, old palaces and an aristocracy that has not yet met modern Italy. Giovanni Saracinesca, heir to a proud and quarrelsome house, loves Corona d’Astrardente, the beautiful young wife of an elderly duke. Honour, gossip, scheming rivals and the politics of a city about to change surround them.
The first and best-loved of Crawford’s Roman novels, rich in the life of a vanished society. Download the free EPUB.
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