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I began this tale two years ago at Rome. On removing to Naples, Ithrew it aside for "The Last Days of Pompeii," which required more than"Rienzi" the advantage of residence within reach of the scenes described.The fate of the Roman Tribune continued, however, to haunt and impressme, and, some time after "Pompeii" was published, I renewed my earlierundertaking. I regarded the completion of these volumes, indeed, as akind of duty;—for having had occasion to read the original authoritiesfrom which modern historians have drawn their accounts of the life ofRienzi, I was led to believe that a very remarkable man had beensuperficially judged, and a very important period crudely examined. (SeeAppendix, Nos. I and II.) And this belief was sufficiently strong to induceme at first to meditate a more serious work upon the life and times ofRienzi. (I have adopted the termination of Rienzi instead of Rienzo, asbeing more familiar to the general reader.—But the latter is perhaps themore accurate reading, since the name was a popular corruption fromLorenzo.) Various reasons concurred against this project—and Irenounced the biography to commence the fiction. I have still, however,adhered, with a greater fidelity than is customary in Romance, to all theleading events of the public life of the Roman Tribune; and the Readerwill perhaps find in these pages a more full and detailed account of therise and fall of Rienzi, than in any English work of which I am aware. Ihave, it is true, taken a view of his character different in some respectsfrom that of Gibbon or Sismondi. But it is a view, in all its main features,which I believe (and think I could prove) myself to be warranted in taking,not less by the facts of History than the laws of Fiction. In the meanwhile,as I have given the facts from which I have drawn my interpretation ofthe principal agent, the reader has sufficient data for his own judgment.

Boston (c. 1900) Estes and Lauriat. Fiction. Hardcovers. 2 volumes. Octavos, 247pp., 261pp., illustrated with fine photogravures each with tissue guard, white cloth with full gilt trim on boards. Contemporary owner signature (Mary F. Webster, Boston). VG, light foxing on covers, in original red cloth, VG DJs, spines slightly browned and lightly frayed on spine ends. No slipcase. Nice condition. 2 volumes

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