Project Gutenberg 2014-12-10 Public domain in the USA. 59 Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 Crawford, Francis Marion A Lady of Rome Produced by Shaun Pinder and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A Lady of Rome" by F. Marion Crawford is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Maria Montalto, a beautiful woman selling lemonade at a Roman fair, who is burdened by her past and the memories of a failed marriage. As the narrative unfolds, themes of love, loss, and societal expectations come to the forefront, particularly as Maria is unexpectedly confronted by her former love, Baldassare del Castiglione, after years of separation. At the start of the novel, Maria, dressed in a colorful traditional costume, captures the attention of fairgoers while grappling with her complex emotions regarding her estranged husband and her past love. The opening introduces the reader to her conflicting feelings of nostalgia and pain linked to her turbulent history with Castiglione. As she serves refreshments, her interactions reveal that while society views her with admiration and pity, there is a deeper, haunting story of love, loss, and moral dilemmas beneath her composed exterior. The reunion with Castiglione sets the stage for a journey of emotional reckoning, leaving readers intrigued by the potential unraveling of her life’s narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Rome (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 622789 622792 2024-09-20T04:03:45.246373 2023-09-20T14:07:52.711578 text/html text/html 629649 2020-06-28T22:02:33 text/html; charset=utf-8 295801 2020-06-28T22:02:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 324916 2024-09-20T04:03:53.481381 application/epub+zip 331460 2024-09-20T04:03:46.545400 application/epub+zip 307818 2024-09-20T04:03:45.845398 application/epub+zip 499030 2024-09-20T04:03:58.973318 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450648 2024-09-20T04:03:52.754380 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 432957 2022-09-21T15:36:46.158412 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 577807 2024-09-20T04:03:43.769390 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 577735 2014-12-10T14:03:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 210063 2014-12-10T14:03:12 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18133 2024-09-20T04:03:59.105282 application/rdf+xml 7373 2024-09-20T04:03:45.954413 image/jpeg 1649 2024-09-20T04:03:45.900351 image/jpeg 295144 2024-09-20T04:03:45.303399 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia