Rienzi

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BOOK I The Time, the Place, and the Men

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The Brothers i

An Historical Survey — Not to be Passed Over, Except by Those who Dislike to Understand

what they Read 16

The Brawl 22

An Adventure 34

The Description of a Conspirator, and the Dawn of the Conspiracy . . . . • . .52

Irene in the Palace of Adrian di Castello . . 66

Upon Love and Lovers 72

The Enthusiastic Man Judged by the Discreet Man 75 “ When the People Saw this Picture Every One

Marvelled ” 81

A Rough Spirit Raised, which may Hereafter Rend

the Wizard . 86

Nina di Raselli 92

The Strange Adventures that Befell Walter de Montreal 102

BOOK II The Revolution

The Knight of Provence, and his Proposal . .112

The Interview, and the Doubt 129

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III. The Situation of a Popular Patrician in Times of

Popular Discontent — Scene of the Lateran

IV. The Ambitious Citizen, and the Ambitious Soldier

V. The Procession of the Barons — The Beginning

of the End

VI. The Conspirator Becomes the Magistrate

VII. Looking After the Halter when the Mare is Stolen

VIII. The Attack — The Retreat — The Election — And the Adhesion

BOOK III The Freedom Without Law

I. The Return of Walter de Montreal to his Fortress

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

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

I. The Boy Angelo— The Dream of Nina Fulfilled

II. The Blessing of a Councillor whose Interests and Heart are Our Own— The Straws Thrown Upward— Do they Portend a Storm?

III. The Actor Unmasked

IV. The Enemy’s Camp ....

V. The Night and its Incidents

VI. The Celebrated Citation

VII. The Festival

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BOOK V The Crisis

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I. The Judgment of the Tribune

II. The Flight ....

III. The Battle ....

IV. The Hollowness of the Base

V. The Rottenness of the Edifice

VI. The Fall of the Temple .

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

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BOOK VI The Plague

I. The Retreat of the Lover 371

II. The Seeker 375

III. The Flowers Amidst the Tombs 389

IV. We Obtain what we Seek and Know it Not . . 399

V. The Error 405

BOOK VII The Prison

I. Avignon — The Two Pages — The Stranger Beauty 419

II. The Character of a Warrior-Priest — An Interview

— The Intrigue and Counter-Intrigue of Courts 430

III. Holy Men — Sagacious Deliberations — Just Re-

solves — And Sordid Motives to All . . . 438

IV. The Lady and the Page 445

V. The Inmate of the Tower 448

VI. The Scent does Not Lie — The Priest and the

Soldier 457

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VII. Vaucluse and its Genius Loci — Old Acquaintance

Renewed 460

VIII. The Crowd— The Trial— The Verdict— The Soldier and the Page 467

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BOOK VIII The Grand Company

The Encampment 480

Adrian Once More the Guest of Montreal . . 493

Faithful and Ill-Fated Love — The Aspirations Survive the Affections 501

BOOK IX The Return

The Triumphal Entrance *..... 513

The Masquerade 519

Adrian’s Adventures at Palestrina .... 535 The Position of the Senator — The Work of Years — The Rewards of Ambition .... 542

The Biter Bit 553

The Events Gather to the End zzj

BOOK X The Lion of Basalt

The Conjunction of Hostile Planets in the House of Death ^

Montreal at Rome — His Reception of Angelo

Villani 566

Montreal’s Banquet 372

The Sentence pf Walter de Montreal . . .581

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V. The Discovery 588

VI. The Suspense 594

VII. The Tax 599

VIII. The Threshold of the Event 603

Chapter the Last: The Close of the Chase 609

Some Remarks on the Life and Character of Rienzi 623

A Word upon the Work by Pere du Cerceau and Pere Brumoy, Entitled “ Conjuration de Nicolas Ga- BRINI, DIT DE RiENZI, TYRAN DE ROME ” . . . 63I

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The fierce Rienzi led on each assault . . . Frontispiece

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“For shame, my lord, for shame.” 44

Forth issued Rienzi, clad in complete armour . . . .178

I have fulfilled my part — I claim yours 476

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