Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes
By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Length20h 30m
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Excerpt: "The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story opens. It was on a summer evening that two youths might be seen walking beside the banks of the Tiber, not far from that part of its winding course which sweeps by the base of Mount Aventine. The path they had selected was remote and tranquil. It was only at a distance that were seen the scattered and squalid houses that bordered the river, from amidst which rose, dark and frequent, the high roof and enormous towers which marked the fortified mansion of some Roman baron. On one side of the river, behind the cottages of the fishermen, soared Mount Janiculum, dark with massive foliage, from which gleamed at frequent intervals, the grey walls of many a castellated palace, and the spires and columns of a hundred churches; on the other side, the deserted Aventine rose abrupt and steep, covered with thick brushwood; while, on the height, from concealed but numerous convents, rolled, not unmusically, along the quiet landscape and the rippling waves, the sound of the holy bell."
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Publish dateAug 27, 2018
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Table of contents
1RIENZI, The Last of the Roman Tribunes
2Preface
3Preface to the Present Edition, 1848.
4RIENZI, The Last of the Tribunes.
5BOOK I. — THE TIME, THE PLACE, AND THE MEN.
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6Chapter 1.I. The Brothers.
7Chapter 1.II. An Historical Survey—not to Be Passed Over, Except by
8Chapter 1.III. The Brawl.
9Chapter 1.IV. An Adventure.
10Chapter 1.V. The Description of a Conspirator, and the Dawn of the
11Chapter 1.VI. Irene in the Palace of Adrian di Castello.
12Chapter 1.VII. Upon Love and Lovers.
13Chapter 1.VIII. The Enthusiastic Man Judged by the Discreet Man.
14Chapter 1.IX. “When the People Saw this Picture, Every One Marvelled.”
15Chapter 1.X. A Rough Spirit Raised, Which May Hereafter Rend the Wizard.
16Chapter 1.XI. Nina di Raselli.
17Chapter 1.XII. The Strange Adventures that Befel Walter de Montreal.
18BOOK II. THE REVOLUTION
19Chapter 2.I. The Knight of Provence, and his Proposal.
20Chapter 2.II. The Interview, and the Doubt.
21Chapter 2.III. The Situation of a Popular Patrician in Times of Popular
22Chapter 2.IV. The Ambitious Citizen, and the Ambitious Soldier.
23Chapter 2.V. The Procession of the Barons.—The Beginning of the End.
24Chapter 2.VI. The Conspirator Becomes the Magistrate.
25Chapter 2.VII. Looking after the Halter when the Mare is Stolen.
26Chapter 2.VIII. The Attack—the Retreat—the Election—and the Adhesion.
27BOOK III. THE FREEDOM WITHOUT LAW.
28Chapter 3.I. The Return of Walter de Montreal to his Fortress.
29Chapter 3.II. The Life of Love and War—the Messenger of Peace—the
30Chapter 3.III. The Conversation between the Roman and the
31BOOK IV. THE TRIUMPH AND THE POMP.
32Chapter 4.I. The Boy Angelo—the Dream of Nina Fulfilled.
33Chapter 4.II. The Blessing of A Councillor Whose Interests and Heart Are
34Chapter 4.III. The Actor Unmasked.
35Chapter 4.IV. The Enemy’s Camp.
36Chapter 4.V. The Night and its Incidents.
37Chapter 4.VI. The Celebrated Citation.
38Chapter 4.VII. The Festival.
39BOOK V. THE CRISIS.
40Chapter 5.I. The Judgment of the Tribune.
41Chapter 5.II. The Flight.
42Chapter 5.III. The Battle.
43Chapter 5.IV. The Hollowness of the Base.
44Chapter 5.V. The Rottenness of the Edifice.
45Chapter 5.VI. The Fall of the Temple.
46Chapter 5.VII. The Successors of an Unsuccessful Revolution—Who is to
47BOOK VI. THE PLAGUE.
48Chapter 6.1. The Retreat of the Lover.
49Chapter 6.II. The Seeker.
50Chapter 6.III. The Flowers Amidst the Tombs.
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