Presents George Eliot's 1862 novel about Romola, a woman who, having grown up subservient to her scholar-father, and endured an unhappy marriage, has a passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening in Renaissance Florence.
Based on a study of Florentine history (1492-1509). Lorenzi d? Medici and Savonarola are finely portrayed. A sternly tragic novel of temptation, crime and retribution.
