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Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome

F. Marion Crawford

Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Oct. 5, 2015)
Two men were sitting side by side on a stone bench in the forgotten garden of the Arcadian Society, in Rome; and it was in early spring, not long ago. Few people, Romans or strangers, ever find their way to that lonely and beautiful spot beyond the Tiber, niched in a hollow of the Janiculum below San Pietro in Montorio, where Beatrice Cenci sleeps. The Arcadians were men and women who loved poetry in an artificial time, took names of shepherds and shepherdesses, rhymed as best they could, met in pleasant places to recite their verses, and played that the world was young, and gentle, and sweet, and unpoisoned, just when it had declined to one of its recurring periods of vicious old age.
ISBN
1517588197 / 9781517588199
Pages
166
Weight
8.2 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.38 in.

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