Rome (Real)

Rome (Real),In Middlemarch Rome is the city to which Mr. and Mrs. Casaubon go on their wedding journey. In Romola Tito Melema twice goes there on political errands, and it is the centre of the agitation against Savonarola, under the Pope's leadership. Under Alexander the Sixth (1492-1503), who was Pope during the period of Romola, the will of the Pope was absolute in Rome, and the Papal states of which he was the head were one of the five great powers of Italy.

Multiple (Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Romola)

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