The Cabala - A Novel of Expatriates, Decadence, and a Vanishing Rome

A young American enters the secretive world of Rome's fading aristocracy and discovers a society haunted by lost power, forbidden desire, and the approach of a modern age it cannot understand.

Samuele, an American student living in Rome after the First World War, becomes acquainted with a private circle of nobles, churchmen, artists, and expatriates known as the Cabala. At its center are figures whose wealth, beauty, rank, and influence belong to an older Europe now slipping into decline. Dr...