Cornelio Grandi, an impoverished professor of philosophy, tells how he raised the orphan Nino Cardegna and watched him become a tenor. Nino loves Hedwig von Lira, daughter of a proud Prussian count living in Rome, and pursues her against every obstacle of rank, while the strange, ageless Benoni watches.
A romantic novel of nineteenth-century Rome and its music, by one of the most popular novelists of his day. Download the free EPUB.