Veranilda

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Telemaco Signorini, Thomas Cole and Giovanni Paolo Panini. Rome in 545, between the Goths and Byzantium: a young Roman noble, a Gothic girl, a deacon with a policy, and a city being fought over by people who no longer remember what it was. Gissing spent years on the sources for this and died before finishing it; his friend Frederic Harrison saw ...