...John A. Huzzard Maria Tosello. Le Fonte Italiane della Romola di George Eliot . Torino: G. Giappichelli, 1956. Pp. 141. © 1959 University of Washington 1959 Robert Louis Peters 289 Symons, the neglected but seminal symbolist critic...

... That the Savonarola who dominates the pages of Romola was inspired by Villari, Miss Tosello does not deny. It is her contention that the two historians, the one contemporaneous with the events George Eliot recorded and the other writing some three centuries after their occurrence, each exerted his own...

... was inspired by Villari, Miss Tosello does not deny. It is her contention that the two historians, the one contemporaneous with the events George Eliot recorded and the other writing some three centuries after their occurrence, each exerted his own sep- arate influence upon the novelist. Miss...

... authors and titles of books which she had read in London subsequent to her Florentine sojourn, but she did not give any further details of their bearing upon her work at hand. Until the appearance of Miss Tosello’s book, Biagi’s introduction to his edition of Romolu remained the only...