The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history.įlorence, 1492: Christopher Columbus has sailed towards the New World, and Florence has just mourned the death of its legendary leader, Lorenzo de' Medici. It first appeared in fourteen parts published in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 (vol. Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". A very good set in an attractive and near contemporary binding. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, matching marbled end-papers, all edges gilt.īlank end-leaves foxed and some light foxing to preliminaries. 1865 in three quarter dark blue pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Three octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches 184 x 117 mm.). London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.įirst edition. Item #03723 George Eliot's Historical Novel set in Fifteenth Century FlorenceĮLIOT, George.
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