Saracinesca

It was at first feared that the name Saracinesca, as it is now printed, might be attached to an unused title in the possession of a

Saracinesca 1881

"It is very cleverly done," he said with a sneer; "but there should be only one letter _r_ in the name Saracinesca -- here it is spelt with two!

Saracinesca 1881

But Donna Tullia knew what she was about; she knew that Corona d'Astrardente could never, under any circumstances whatever, call Saracinesca plain "Giovanni."

Saracinesca 1881

Saracinesca (1887) first represented the great Roman family of Saracinesca.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

In such a tour de force as Khaled or in such a romantic melodrama as The Cigarette-Maker’s Romance he went far on the wings of an excited imagination, but not as far as profounder observations took him in Pietro Ghisleri or Saracinesca.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

And yet neither melodrama nor heroic dimensions constitute the final impression of the Saracinesca cycle.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

Of almost equal importance are San Giacinto, the giant cousin of the Saracinesca, Spicca, the melancholy but infallible duelist who dies in Don Orsino, Anastase Gouache, the French painter of whom Giovanni is jealous, and the villain Del Ferice.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

Saracinesca (1887), Sant’ Ilario (1889), Don Orsino (1892), and Corleone (1896) have all helped one another to reputation by the fact that they make up a cycle dealing generally with the same persons and centered about the fortunes of one great patriarchal house.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

Pietro Ghisleri (1893), as lifelike and vigorous a book as any Crawford wrote, seems to derive some power from its connection with the Saracinesca group.

Chapter 9. The Eighties and Their Kin. Section 2. Francis Marion Crawford 1921

I can now conjure up the gaunt and sombre houses of this thick-clustering stronghold; the Rembrandtesque shadows, the streets devoid of men, the picture of some martial hero in a cavern-like recess where I sought shelter from the heat, a black crucifix planted in the soil below the entrance of the village -- my picture of Saracinesca is complete, in outline.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910