Florence,
March 15, 1884.

CONTENTS.

[Preface]
CHAPTER I.[The Bride]
CHAPTER II.[The Bridegroom]
CHAPTER III.[Regina Apostolorum]
CHAPTER IV.[The Heir]
CHAPTER V.[Florence]
CHAPTER VI.[Alfieri]
CHAPTER VII.[The Cavaliere Servente]
CHAPTER VIII.[The Escape]
CHAPTER IX.[Rome]
CHAPTER X.[Antigone]
CHAPTER XI.[Separation]
CHAPTER XII.[Colmar]
CHAPTER XIII.[Rue de Bourgoyne]
CHAPTER XIV.[Before the Storm]
CHAPTER XV.[England]
CHAPTER XVI.[The Misogallo]
CHAPTER XVII.[Casa Gianfigliazzi]
CHAPTER XVIII.[Fabre]
CHAPTER XIX.[The Salon of the Countess]
CHAPTER XX.[Santa Croce]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Alfieri and the Countess of Albany]
From the original portrait in the possession of the Marchesa A. Alfieri de Sostegno
[Charles Edward Stuart]
From a pastel, painter unknown, once in the possession of
the heir of the Countess of Albany's heir Fabre.
Now in the possession of Mrs. Horace Walpole, of Heckfield Place, Winchfield, Hants
[Louise, Countess of Albany]
From a pastel once in the possession of the heirs of Fabre,
now in the possession of Mrs. Horace Walpole, of Heckfield Place, Winchfield, Hants

CHAPTER I.

THE BRIDE.

On the Wednesday or Thursday of Holy Week of the year 1772 the inhabitants of the squalid and dilapidated little mountain towns between Ancona and Loreto were thrown into great excitement by the passage of a travelling equipage, doubtless followed by two or three dependent chaises, of more than usual magnificence.