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Preface to the First Edition of Rienzi.

Preface to the Present Edition, 1848.

Book I. The Time, The Place, and The Men.

Chapter I. The Brothers.

Chapter II. An Historical Survey—not to Be Passed Over, Except by

Chapter III. The Brawl.

Chapter IV. An Adventure.

Chapter V. The Description of a Conspirator, and the Dawn of the Conspiracy.

Chapter VI. Irene in the Palace of Adrian di Castello.

Chapter VII. Upon Love and Lovers.

Chapter VIII. The Enthusiastic Man Judged by the Discreet Man.

Chapter IX. “When the People Saw this Picture, Every One Marvelled.”

Chapter X. A Rough Spirit Raised, Which May Hereafter Rend the Wizard.

Chapter XI. Nina di Raselli.

Chapter XII. The Strange Adventures that Befel Walter de Montreal.

Book II. The Revolution

Chapter I. The Knight of Provence, and his Proposal.

Chapter II. The Interview, and the Doubt.

Chapter III. The Situation of a Popular Patrician in Times of Popular Discontent.—Scene of the Lateran.

Chapter IV. The Ambitious Citizen, and the Ambitious Soldier.

Chapter V. The Procession of the Barons.—The Beginning of the End.

Chapter VI. The Conspirator Becomes the Magistrate.

Chapter VII. Looking after the Halter when the Mare is Stolen.

Chapter VIII. The Attack—the Retreat—the Election—and the Adhesion.

Book III. The Freedom Without Law.

Chapter I. The Return of Walter de Montreal to his Fortress.

Chapter II. The Life of Love and War—the Messenger of Peace—the Joust.

Chapter III. The Conversation between the Roman and the Provencal—Adeline’s History—the Moonlit Sea—the Lute and the Song.

Book IV. The Triumph and the Pomp.

Chapter I. The Boy Angelo—the Dream of Nina Fulfilled.

Chapter II. The Blessing of A Councillor Whose Interests and Heart Are Our Own.—the Straws Thrown Upward—Do They Portend A Storm.

Chapter III. The Actor Unmasked.

Chapter IV. The Enemy’s Camp.

Chapter V. The Night and its Incidents.

Chapter VI. The Celebrated Citation.

Chapter VII. The Festival.

Book V. The Crisis.

Chapter I. The Judgment of the Tribune.

Chapter II. The Flight.

Chapter III. The Battle.

Chapter IV. The Hollowness of the Base.

Chapter V. The Rottenness of the Edifice.

Chapter VI. The Fall of the Temple.

Chapter VII. The Successors of an Unsuccessful Revolution—Who is to Blame—the Forsaken one or the Forsakers?

Book VI. The Plague.

Chapter 1. The Retreat of the Lover.

Chapter II. The Seeker.

Chapter III. The Flowers Amidst the Tombs.

Chapter IV. We Obtain What We Seek, and Know it Not.

Chapter V. The Error.

Book VII. The Prison.

Chapter I. Avignon.—The Two Pages.—The Stranger Beauty.

Chapter II. The Character of a Warrior Priest—an Interview—the Intrigue and Counter-intrigue of Courts.

Chapter III. Holy Men.—Sagacious Deliberations.—Just Resolves.—And Sordid Motives to All.

Chapter IV. The Lady and the Page.

Chapter V. The Inmate of the Tower.

Chapter VI. The Scent Does Not Lie.—The Priest and the Soldier.

Chapter VII. Vaucluse and its Genius Loci.—Old Acquaintance Renewed.

Chapter VIII. The Crowd.—The Trial.—The Verdict.—The Soldier and the Page.

Chapter IX. Albornoz and Nina.

Book VIII. The Grand Company.

Chapter I. The Encampment.

Chapter II. Adrian Once More the Guest of Montreal.

Chapter III. Faithful and Ill-fated Love.—The Aspirations Survive the Affections.

Book IX. The Return.

Chapter I. The Triumphal Entrance.

Chapter II. The Masquerade.

Chapter III. Adrian’s Adventures at Palestrina.

Chapter IV. The Position of the Senator.—The Work of Years.—The Rewards of Ambition.

Chapter V. The Biter Bit.

Chapter VI. The Events Gather to the End.

Book X. The Lion of Basalt.

Chapter I. The Conjunction of Hostile Planets in the House of Death.

Chapter II. Montreal at Rome.—His Reception of Angelo Villani.

Chapter III. Montreal’s Banquet.

Chapter IV. The Sentence of Walter de Montreal.

Chapter V. The Discovery.

Chapter VI. The Suspense.

Chapter VII. The Tax.

Chapter VIII. The Threshold of the Event.

Chapter The Last. The Close of the Chase.

Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes (Historical Novel)

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