¶Published the same year as the first American edition. An historical novel, set in Italy. Alibone notes an early review of the work in The Athenaeum: 'This tale will not advance the reputation of its writer, which ... has been mildly but steadily sliding downward ever since the first days when she must have been startled by her easily won European fame'. But another reviewer praises the 'many passages of graceful or picturesque description'.