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Sant' Ilario

F. Marion Crawford

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Summary

Rome in the 1860s: the Saracinesca family, a marriage under strain, a forged claim to a title, and the Papal city in its last years before Italy takes it. Crawford lived above Sorrento and wrote more than forty books at a pace his publishers could not keep up with; this is the second of the Saracinesca novels, and the Roman aristocracy in it is drawn by a man who dined with them.
Available since: 08/19/2026.
Print length: 503 pages.

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