Project Gutenberg 2014-12-10 Public domain in the USA. 152 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.) Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Rome (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels 622915 2025-07-19T07:31:39.938128 text/html 609640 2024-10-24T12:54:03 text/html 324989 2025-07-19T07:31:47.260060 application/epub+zip 331446 2025-07-19T07:31:41.069109 application/epub+zip 307806 2025-07-19T07:31:40.485215 application/epub+zip 499272 2025-07-19T07:31:52.121104 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450656 2025-07-19T07:31:46.596124 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 432957 2022-09-21T15:36:46.158412 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 577654 2025-07-19T07:31:38.816107 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 557842 2024-10-24T12:54:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17001 2025-07-19T07:31:52.333054 application/rdf+xml 7373 2025-07-19T07:31:40.586113 image/jpeg 1649 2025-07-19T07:31:40.536136 image/jpeg 295161 2025-07-19T07:31:39.990107 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia