Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892) was an English writer and historian, known for his travel books, novels, and historical works. He spent much of his life in Italy, which became the setting for many of his works, including "A Decade of Italian Women" and "Beppo the Conscript." Trollope was the older brother of novelist Anthony Trollope, and like his sibling, he contributed significantly to 19th-century English literature. In addition to his writing, he was also a journalist and an active observer of Italian politics during the Risorgimento.

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CHAPTER I The Last Night of Carnival It was Carnival time in the ancient and once imperial, but now provincial and remote, city of Ravenna. It was Carnival time, and the very acme and high-tide of that season of mirth and revel. For the theory of Carnival observance is, that the life of it, unlike that of most other things and beings, is intensified with a constantly crescendo movement up to the last... more...

CHAPTER I. No! as I said at the end of the last chapter but one, before I was led away by the circumstances of that time to give the world the benefit of my magnetic reminiscences—valeat quantum!—I was not yet bitten, despite Colley Grattan's urgings, with any temptation to attempt fiction, and "passion, me boy!" But I am surprised on turning over my old diaries to find how much I was... more...