The great Italian patriot turned novelist to attack priestly rule in Rome. His heroine Clelia, the sculptor Attilio and a band of conspirators plot against a corrupt cardinal and the papal government, with rescues, arrests and battles in the Roman countryside, and help from an adventurous Englishman called Jack.
A fiercely anticlerical romance worth reading for its author and its window on the Risorgimento. Download the free EPUB.
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