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Romola
About this work
Eliot’s only historical novel, set in 15th century Florence under the rule of the Medicis, blends fact with fiction as the reader follows the almost saint-like Romola and the amoral and feckless Tito Melema whom she marries against the advice of her brother, an equally saintly priest. An impressive account of Renaissance life in a wealthy Italian state.
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Subjects
- Married women
- Greeks
- Self-sacrifice
- Fiction
- History
- Women
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, historical
- Italy, fiction
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, psychological
- Fiction, historical, general