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Title: The Strolling Saint

Author: Raphael Sabatini

Posting Date: February 25, 2009 [EBook #3423]
Release Date: September, 2002

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THE STROLLING SAINT

Being the Confessions of the High & Mighty Agostino D'Anguissola Tyrant
of Mondolfo & Lord of Carmina, in the State of Piacenza

By Raphael Sabatini

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

THE OBLATE

CHAPTER

I. NOMEN ET OMEN

II. GINO FALCONE

III. THE PIETISTIC THRALL

IV. LUISINA

V. REBELLION

VI. FRA GERVASIO

BOOK TWO

GIULIANA

I. THE HOUSE OF ASTORRE FIFANTI

II. HUMANITIES

III. PREUX-CHEVALIER

IV. MY LORD GAMBARA CLEARS THE GROUND

V. PABULUM ACHERONTIS

VI. THE IRON GIRDLE

BOOK THREE

THE WILDERNESS

I. THE HOME-COMING

II. THE CAPTAIN OF JUSTICE

III. GAMBARA'S INTERESTS

IV. THE ANCHORITE OF MONTE ORSARO

V. THE RENUNCIATION

VI. HYPNEROTOMACHIA

VII. INTRUDERS

VIII. THE VISION

IX. THE ICONOCLAST

BOOK FOUR

THE WORLD

I. PAGLIANO

II. THE GOVERNOR OF MILAN

III. PIER LUIGI FARNESE

IV. MADONNA BIANCA

V. THE WARNING

VI. THE TALONS OF THE HOLY OFFICE

VII. THE PAPAL BULL

VIII. THE THIRD DEGREE

IX. THE RETURN

X. THE NUPTIALS OF BIANCA

XI. THE PENANCE

XII. BLOOD

XIII. THE OVERTHROW

XIV. THE CITATION

XV. THE WILL OF HEAVEN

BOOK I. THE OBLATE

CHAPTER I. NOMEN ET OMEN

In seeking other than in myself--as men will--the causes of my
tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill
that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon
those who held my mother at