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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