Piccolo romanzo

One of the great Italian novels of the nineteenth century. Donna Clara is beautiful, high-spirited, and desperate for money. When a suitor offers her a life of opulent security, she is drawn into a devastating social contract. A strange encounter at a ball with the enigmatic Miss Daisy, an Englishwoman who values passionate love above all else, destabilizes Clara’s carefully constructed world. Set in the glittering ballrooms and hushed drawing rooms of fin-de-siècle Rome, the novel moves thro...