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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GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length20 hrs 30 mins
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Publish dateAug 27, 2018
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Table of contents
1RIENZI, The Last of the Roman Tribunes
44Chapter 5.V. The Rottenness of the Edifice.
2Preface
45Chapter 5.VI. The Fall of the Temple.
3Preface to the Present Edition, 1848.
46Chapter 5.VII. The Successors of an Unsuccessful Revolution—Who is to
4RIENZI, The Last of the Tribunes.
47BOOK VI. THE PLAGUE.
5BOOK I. — THE TIME, THE PLACE, AND THE MEN.
48Chapter 6.1. The Retreat of the Lover.
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6Chapter 1.I. The Brothers.
49Chapter 6.II. The Seeker.
7Chapter 1.II. An Historical Survey—not to Be Passed Over, Except by
50Chapter 6.III. The Flowers Amidst the Tombs.
8Chapter 1.III. The Brawl.
51Chapter 6.IV. We Obtain What We Seek, and Know it Not.
9Chapter 1.IV. An Adventure.
52Chapter 6.V. The Error.
10Chapter 1.V. The Description of a Conspirator, and the Dawn of the
53BOOK VII. THE PRISON.
11Chapter 1.VI. Irene in the Palace of Adrian di Castello.
54Chapter 7.I. Avignon.—The Two Pages.—The Stranger Beauty.
12Chapter 1.VII. Upon Love and Lovers.
55Chapter 7.II. The Character of a Warrior Priest—an Interview—the
13Chapter 1.VIII. The Enthusiastic Man Judged by the Discreet Man.
56Chapter 7.III. Holy Men.—Sagacious Deliberations.—Just Resolves.—And
14Chapter 1.IX. “When the People Saw this Picture, Every One Marvelled.”
57Chapter 7.IV. The Lady and the Page.
15Chapter 1.X. A Rough Spirit Raised, Which May Hereafter Rend the Wizard.
58Chapter 7.V. The Inmate of the Tower.
16Chapter 1.XI. Nina di Raselli.
59Chapter 7.VI. The Scent Does Not Lie.—The Priest and the Soldier.
17Chapter 1.XII. The Strange Adventures that Befel Walter de Montreal.
60Chapter 7.VII. Vaucluse and its Genius Loci.—Old Acquaintance Renewed.
18BOOK II. THE REVOLUTION
61Chapter 7.VIII. The Crowd.—The Trial.—The Verdict.—The Soldier and
19Chapter 2.I. The Knight of Provence, and his Proposal.
62Chapter 7.IX. Albornoz and Nina.
20Chapter 2.II. The Interview, and the Doubt.
63BOOK VIII. THE GRAND COMPANY.
21Chapter 2.III. The Situation of a Popular Patrician in Times of Popular
64Chapter 8.I. The Encampment.
22Chapter 2.IV. The Ambitious Citizen, and the Ambitious Soldier.
65Chapter 8.II. Adrian Once More the Guest of Montreal.
23Chapter 2.V. The Procession of the Barons.—The Beginning of the End.
66Chapter 8.III. Faithful and Ill-fated Love.—The Aspirations Survive the
24Chapter 2.VI. The Conspirator Becomes the Magistrate.
67BOOK IX. THE RETURN.
25Chapter 2.VII. Looking after the Halter when the Mare is Stolen.
68Chapter 9.I. The Triumphal Entrance.
26Chapter 2.VIII. The Attack—the Retreat—the Election—and the Adhesion.
69Chapter 9.II. The Masquerade.
27BOOK III. THE FREEDOM WITHOUT LAW.
70Chapter 9.III. Adrian’s Adventures at Palestrina.
28Chapter 3.I. The Return of Walter de Montreal to his Fortress.
71Chapter 9.IV. The Position of the Senator.—The Work of Years.—The
29Chapter 3.II. The Life of Love and War—the Messenger of Peace—the
72Chapter 9.V. The Biter Bit.
30Chapter 3.III. The Conversation between the Roman and the
73Chapter 9.VI. The Events Gather to the End.
31BOOK IV. THE TRIUMPH AND THE POMP.
74BOOK X. THE LION Of BASALT.
32Chapter 4.I. The Boy Angelo—the Dream of Nina Fulfilled.
75Chapter 10.I. The Conjunction of Hostile Planets in the House of Death.
33Chapter 4.II. The Blessing of A Councillor Whose Interests and Heart Are
76Chapter 10.II. Montreal at Rome.—His Reception of Angelo Villani.
34Chapter 4.III. The Actor Unmasked.
77Chapter 10.III. Montreal’s Banquet.
35Chapter 4.IV. The Enemy’s Camp.
78Chapter 10.IV. The Sentence of Walter de Montreal.
36Chapter 4.V. The Night and its Incidents.
79Chapter 10.V. The Discovery.
37Chapter 4.VI. The Celebrated Citation.
80Chapter 10.VI. The Suspense.
38Chapter 4.VII. The Festival.
81Chapter 10.VII. The Tax.
39BOOK V. THE CRISIS.
82Chapter 10.VIII. The Threshold of the Event.
40Chapter 5.I. The Judgment of the Tribune.
83Chapter The Last. The Close of the Chase.
41Chapter 5.II. The Flight.
84Appendix I. Some Remarks on the Life and Character of Rienzi.
42Chapter 5.III. The Battle.
85Appendix II. A Word Upon the Work by Pere du Cerceau and Pere Brumoy,
43Chapter 5.IV. The Hollowness of the Base.
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