Romola.

Description:

Eliot’s only historical novel, set in 15th century Florence under the rule of the Medicis, blends fact with fiction as the reader follows the almost saint-like Romola and the amoral and feckless Tito Melema whom she marries against the advice of her brother, an equally saintly priest. An impressive account of Renaissance life in a wealthy Italian state.

subjects: Married women,  Greeks,  Self-sacrifice,  Fiction,  History,  Women,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, historical,  Italy, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498),  Lorenzo de' Medici,  Niccolo Machiavelli,  George Eliot (1819-1880),  Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)

Places: Italy,  Florence,  Florence (Italy)

Times: 1421-1737