Romola

George Eliot's Romola (1862–1863) occupies a distinctive place in nineteenth-century English literature as a richly textured historical novel that ventures beyond the English provincial landscapes familiar to Eliot's readers and immerses itself in the intellectual, political, and spiritual ferment of Renaissance Florence. Set in the closing years of the fifteenth century, during a time of upheaval marked by the decline of Medicean dominance and the rise of the Dominican reformer Girolamo Sa...