Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome

Two men were sitting side by side on a stone bench in the forgotten garden of the Arcadian Society, in Rome; and it was in early spring, not long ago. Few people, Romans or strangers, ever find their way to that lonely and beautiful spot beyond the Tiber, niched in a hollow of the Janiculum below San Pietro in Montorio, where Beatrice Cenci sleeps. The Arcadians were men and women who loved poetry in an artificial time, took names of shepherds and shepherdesses, rhymed as best they could, met in pleasant places to recite their verses, and played that the world was young, and gentle, and sweet, and unpoisoned, just when it had declined to one of its recurring periods of vicious old age.

Author: F. Marion Crawford

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 05, 2015

Number of Pages: 166 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1517588197

ISBN-13: 9781517588199