A Romance

By Joseph Hergesheimer

New York & London

Mitchell Kennerley 1914

... if in passing from this deceitful world into true life love is not forgotten,... I know that among the most joyous souls of the third heaven my Fiametta sees my pain. Pray her, if the sweet draught of Lethe has not robbed me of her,... to obtain my ascent to her.

—Giovanni Boccaccio

TO

DOROTHY

THIS

FIGMENT OF A PERPETUAL FLOWERING