Romola

George Eliot

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783849650513
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Romola, one of the best-known novels by George Eliot (C. P. P.), was originally published in 1863. The scene is in Florence, Italy, at the end of the fifteenth century. Roinola, the heroine, a daughter of the Italian family of Bardi, marries Tito Melema, a Greek, but the marriage proves a failure, and she sacrifices herself in devotion to the people during the plague. A marvellously able story of the revival of the taste and beauty and freedom of Hellenic manners and letters, under Lorenzo di Medici and the scholars of his Court, side by side with the revival of Roman virtue, and more than the ancient austerity and piety, under the great Dominican, Savonarola. The period of history is one which of all others may well have engrossing interest for George Eliot. Treasures of learning and discipline, amassed for mankind ages before, for ages stored and hidden away, see again the sun, are recognized and put to use. What use they will be put to, with what new and fruitful effects on the State and the citizen, with what momentary and with what lasting consequences, this she strives to discover; this she follows through the public history of Italy during the modern invasion of Charles VIII., and the events which succeed his invasion, and through the private fortunes of her admirably chosen group of characters, some of them drawn from life, all of them true to nature.

Table of contents

• Prologue.
• Chapter One. The Shipwrecked Stranger.
• Chapter Two. Breakfast for Love.
• Chapter Three. The Barber’s Shop.
• Chapter Four. First Impressions.
• Chapter Five. The Blind Scholar and his Daughter.
• Chapter Six. Dawning Hopes.
• Chapter Seven. A Learned Squabble.
• Chapter Eight. A Face in the Crowd.
• Chapter Nine. A Man’s Ransom.
• Chapter Ten. Under the Plane-Tree.
• Chapter Eleven. Tito’s Dilemma.
• Chapter Twelve. The Prize is nearly grasped.
• Chapter Thirteen. The Shadow of Nemesis.
• Chapter Fourteen. The Peasants’ Fair.
• Chapter Fifteen. The Dying Message.
• Chapter Sixteen. A Florentine Joke.
• Chapter Seventeen. Under the Loggia.
• Chapter Eighteen. The Portrait.
• Chapter Nineteen. The Old Man’s Hope.
• Chapter Twenty. The Day of the Betrothal.
• Chapter Twenty One. Florence expects a Guest.
• Chapter Twenty Two. The Prisoners.
• Chapter Twenty Three. After-Thoughts.
• Chapter Twenty Four. Inside the Duo.
• Chapter Twenty Five. Outside the Duomo.
• Chapter Twenty Six. The Garment of Fear.
• Chapter Twenty Seven. The Young Wife.
• Chapter Twenty Eight. The Painted Record.
• Chapter Twenty Nine. A Moment of Triumph.
• Chapter Thirty. The Avenger’s Secret.
• Chapter Thirty One. Fruit is Seed.
• Chapter Thirty Two. A Revelation.
• Chapter Thirty Three. Baldassarre makes an Acquaintance.
• Chapter Thirty Four. No Place for Repentance.
• Chapter Thirty Five. What Florence was thinking of.
• Chapter Thirty Six. Ariadne discrowns herself.
• Chapter Thirty Seven. The Tabernacle Unlocked.
• Chapter Thirty Eight. The Black Marks become Magical.
• Chapter Thirty Nine. A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens.
• Chapter Forty. An Arresting Voice.
• Chapter Forty One. Coming Back.
• Chapter Forty Two. Romola in her Place.
• Chapter Forty Three. The Unseen Madonna.
• Chapter Forty Four. The Visible Madonna.
• Chapter Forty Five. At the Barber’s Shop.
• Chapter Forty Six. By a Street Lamp.
• Chapter Forty Seven. Check.
• Chapter Forty Eight. Counter-Check.
• Chapter Forty Nine. The Pyramid of Vanities.
• Chapter Fifty. Tessa Abroad and at Home.
• Chapter Fifty One. Monna Brigida’s Conversion.
• Chapter Fifty Two. A Prophetess.
• Chapter Fifty Three. On San Miniato.
• Chapter Fifty Four. The Evening and the Morning.
• Chapter Fifty Five. Waiting.
• Chapter Fifty Six. The Other Wife.
• Chapter Fifty Seven. Why Tito was Safe.
• Chapter Fifty Eight. A Final Understanding.
• Chapter Fifty Nine. Pleading.
• Chapter Sixty. The Scaffold.
• Chapter Sixty One. Drifting Away.
• Chapter Sixty Two. The Benediction.
• Chapter Sixty Three. Ripening Schemes.
• Chapter Sixty Four. The Prophet in his Cell.
• Chapter Sixty Five. The Trial by Fire.
• Chapter Sixty Six. A Masque of the Furies.
• Chapter Sixty Seven. Waiting by the River.
• Chapter Sixty Eight. Romola’s waking.
• Chapter Sixty Nine. Homeward.
• Chapter Seventy. Meeting Again.
• Chapter Seventy One. The Confession.
• Chapter Seventy Two. The Last Silence.
• Epilogue.