Romola
by:
George Eliot (author)
Set in late-fifteenth-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis, Romola (1862-3) is George Eliot's most exotic and adventurous novel. It reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic...
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Set in late-fifteenth-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis, Romola (1862-3) is George Eliot's most exotic and adventurous novel. It reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savonarola, who rebelled against the humanist spirit of the age an
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780192835680 (0192835688)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 656
Edition language: English
Eliot leaves England and goes back some 350 years for 'Romola', to 15th century Florence, and tells a story about love and betrayal, revenge and forgiveness. It will never be as popular as her other novels, but it deserves attention as it was a novel that Eliot believed in and spent a great deal of ...
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