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Romola

Romola

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". The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history.


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“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”

Volume III, Chapter IV
Romola (1863)

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“But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.”

Volume II, Chapter XXV
Romola (1863)

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