George Aurispa, a wealthy, introspective young Roman, has been the lover of the married Hippolyte for two years when a suicide from a Roman terrace unsettles them both. Weary of the city and of himself, he returns to his family’s house in the Abruzzi and then carries her off to a hermitage above the Adriatic, where passion, jealousy and morbid self-analysis tighten around them.
The final novel of D’Annunzio’s Romances of the Rose, a landmark of Decadent fiction, translated by Arthur Hornblow. Download the free EPUB.