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One of the world's greatest writers-in love with a great city. In a fascinating travel book, Stendhal carries the reader along with him on a grand tour of Rome. Described with all the wit and sensitivity of a master storyteller, incomparable Rome comes breathtakingly alive. No one but the author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma could capture the city's spell so magically: the Colosseum, the Pantheon, St. Peter's, the Forum, fountains,...
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Extrait: "ROME, 29 mai 1829.-Voici une suite d'intrigues assez peu intéressantes, il est vrai, que les hasards d'une procédure secrète viennent de faire découvrir Flavia à M. le cardinal N***, légat à ***. Flavia Orsini gouvernait avec prudence et fermeté le couvent noble de Catanzara, situé dans la Marche. Elle s'aperçut qu'une de ses religieuses, l'altière Lucrèce Frangimani, avait une intrigue avec un jeune homme de Forli qu'elle introduisit...
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