The Sorceress of Rome

The Sorceress of Rome
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Gallizier Nathan. The Sorceress of Rome

INTRODUCTION

Book the First. The Truceof God

CHAPTER I. THE GRAND CHAMBERLAIN

CHAPTER II. THE PAGEANT IN THE NAVONA

CHAPTER III. ON THE PALATINE

CHAPTER IV. THE WANTON COURT OF THEODORA

CHAPTER V. THE WAGER

CHAPTER VI. JOHN OF THE CATACOMBS

CHAPTER VII. THE VISION OF SAN PANCRAZIO

CHAPTER VIII. CASTEL SAN ANGELO

CHAPTER IX. THE SERMON IN THE GHETTO

CHAPTER X. THE SICILIAN DANCER

CHAPTER XI. NILUS OF GAËTA

CHAPTER XII. RED FALERNIAN

CHAPTER XIII. DEAD LEAVES

CHAPTER XIV. THE PHANTOM AT THE SHRINE

CHAPTER XV. THE DEATH WATCH

CHAPTER XVI. THE CONCLAVE

Book the Second. The Sorceress

CHAPTER I. THE MEETING

CHAPTER II. THE QUEEN OF NIGHT

CHAPTER III. THE ELIXIR OF LOVE

CHAPTER IV. THE SECRET OF THE TOMB

CHAPTER V. THE GROTTOS OF EGERIA

CHAPTER VI. BEYOND THE GRAVE

CHAPTER VII. ARA COELI

CHAPTER VIII. THE GOTHIC TOWER

CHAPTER IX. THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER

CHAPTER X. THE TEMPLE OF NEPTUNE

CHAPTER XI. THE INCANTATION

CHAPTER XII. THE HERMITAGE OF NILUS

CHAPTER XIII. THE LION OF BASALT

CHAPTER XIV. THE LAST TRYST

CHAPTER XV. THE STORM OF CASTEL SAN ANGELO

CHAPTER XVI. THE FORFEIT

CHAPTER XVII. NEMESIS

CHAPTER XVIII. VALE ROMA

Book the Third. Our Ladyof Death

CHAPTER I. PATERNO

CHAPTER II. MEMORIES

CHAPTER III. THE CONSUMMATION

CHAPTER IV. THE ANGEL OF THE AGONY

CHAPTER V. RETURN

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The darkness of the tenth century is dissipated by no contemporary historian. Monkish chronicles alone shed a faint light over the discordant chaos of the Italian world. Rome was no longer the capital of the earth. The seat of empire had shifted from the banks of the Tiber to the shores of the Bosporus, and the seven hilled city of Constantine had assumed the imperial purple of the ancient capital of the Cæsars.

Centuries of struggles with the hosts of foreign invaders had in time lowered the state of civilization to such a degree, that in point of literature and art the Rome of the tenth century could not boast of a single name worthy of being transmitted to posterity. Even the memory of the men whose achievements in the days of its glory constituted the pride and boast of the Roman world, had become almost extinct. A great lethargy benumbed the Italian mind, engendered by the reaction from the incessant feuds and broils among the petty tyrants and oppressors of the country.

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Theodora bowed with mock courtesy.

"If you wish to honour me with this confession, I care as little for the one as the other. From your temper I judge some innocent dove had escaped your vulture's talons."

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