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