Rienzi, the last of the Roman Tribunes
Dedication of Rienzi
Preface
BOOK I. THE TIME, THE PLACE, AND THE MEN.
Chapter 1.I. The Brothers
Chapter 1.II. An Historical Survey - not to Be Passed Over, Except by
Those Who Dislike to Understand What They Read
Chapter 1.III. The Brawl.
Chapter 1.IV. An Adventure
Chapter 1.V. The Description of a Conspirator, and the Dawn of the
Conspiracy
Chapter 1.VI. Irene in the Palace of Adrian di Castello.
Chapter 1.VII. Upon Love and Lovers.
Chapter 1.VIII. The Enthusiastic Man Judged by the Discreet Man.
Chapter 1.IX. "When the People Saw this Picture, Every One Marvelled."
Chapter 1.X. A Rough Spirit Raised, Which May Hereafter Rend the Wizard.
Chapter 1.XI. Nina di Raselli.
Chapter 1.XII. The Strange Adventures that Befel Walter de Montreal.
BOOK II. THE REVOLUTION
Chapter 2.I. The Knight of Provence, and his Proposal.
Chapter 2.II. The Interview, and the Doubt.
Chapter 2.III. The Situation of a Popular Patrician in Times of Popular
Discontent. - Scene of the Lateran.
Chapter 2.IV. The Ambitious Citizen, and the Ambitious Soldier.
Chapter 2.V. The Procession of the Barons. - The Beginning of the End.
Chapter 2.VI. The Conspirator Becomes the Magistrate.
Chapter 2.VII. Looking after the Halter when the Mare is Stolen
Chapter 2.VIII. The Attack - the Retreat - the Election - and the
Adhesion
BOOK III. THE FREEDOM WITHOUT LAW.
Chapter 3.I. The Return of Walter de Montreal to his Fortress
Chapter 3.II. The Life of Love and War - the Messenger of Peace - the
Joust
Chapter 3.III. The Conversation between the Roman and the Provencal -
Adeline's History - the Moonlit Sea - the Lute and the Song.
BOOK IV. THE TRIUMPH AND THE POMP.
Chapter 4.I. The Boy Angelo - the Dream of Nina Fulfilled.
Chapter 4.II. The Blessing of A Councillor Whose Interests and Heart Are
Our Own. - the Straws Thrown Upward, - Do They Portend A Storm.
Chapter 4.III. The Actor Unmasked.
Chapter 4.IV. The Enemy's Camp.
Chapter 4.V. The Night and its Incidents.
Chapter 4.VI. The Celebrated Citation.
Chapter 4.VII. The Festival.
BOOK V. THE CRISIS.
Chapter 5.I. The Judgment of the Tribune.
Chapter 5.II. The Flight.
Chapter 5.III. The Battle.
Chapter 5.IV. The Hollowness of the Base.
Chapter 5.V. The Rottenness of the Edifice.
Chapter 5.VI. The Fall of the Temple.
Chapter 5.VII. The Successors of an Unsuccessful Revolution - Who is to
Blame - the Forsaken one or the Forsakers?
BOOK VI. THE PLAGUE.
Chapter 6.I. The Retreat of the Lover.
Chapter 6.II. The Seeker.
Chapter 6.III. The Flowers Amidst the Tombs.
Chapter 6.IV. We Obtain What We Seek, and Know it Not.
Chapter 6.V. The Error.
BOOK VII. THE PRISON.
Chapter 7.I. Avignon. - The Two Pages. - The Stranger Beauty.
Chapter 7.II. The Character of a Warrior Priest - an Interview - the
Intrigue and Counter-intrigue of Courts.
Chapter 7.III. Holy Men. - Sagacious Deliberations. - Just Resolves. - And
Sordid Motives to All.
Chapter 7.IV. The Lady and the Page.
Chapter 7.V. The Inmate of the Tower.
Chapter 7.VI. The Scent Does Not Lie. - The Priest and the Soldier.
Chapter 7.VII. Vaucluse and its Genius Loci. - Old Acquaintance Renewed.
Chapter 7.VIII. The Crowd. - The Trial. - The Verdict. - The Soldier and
the Page.
Chapter 7.IX. Albornoz and Nina.
BOOK VIII. THE GRAND COMPANY.
Chapter 8.I. The Encampment.
Chapter 8.II. Adrian Once More the Guest of Montreal.
Chapter 8.III. Faithful and Ill-fated Love. - The Aspirations Survive the
Affections.
BOOK IX. THE RETURN.
Chapter 9.I. The Triumphal Entrance.
Chapter 9.II. The Masquerade
Chapter 9.III. Adrian's Adventures at Palestrina
Chapter 9.IV. The Position of the Senator. - The Work of Years. - The
Rewards of Ambition
Chapter 9.V. The Biter Bit
Chapter 9.VI. The Events Gather to the End
BOOK X. THE LION OF BASALT.
Chapter 10.I. The Conjunction of Hostile Planets in the House of Death
Chapter 10.II. Montreal at Rome. - His Reception of Angelo Villani
Chapter 10.III. Montreal's Banquet
Chapter 10.IV. The Sentence of Walter de Montreal
Chapter 10.V. The Discovery
Chapter 10.VI. The Suspense
Chapter 10.VII. The Tax
Chapter 10.VIII. The Threshold of the Event
Chapter The Last. The Close of the Chase
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