Front matter
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CONTENTS
BOOK I Ash Wednesday Morning
CHAPTER
IThe Last Night of Carnival
IIApollo Vindex
IIISt. Apollinare in Classe
IVFather Fabiano
V"The Hours passed, and still she came not"
VIGigia's Opinion
VIIAn Attorney-at-Law in the Papal States
VIIILost in the Forest
IX"Passa la bella Donna e par che dorma"
BOOK II Four Months Before That Ash Wednesday Morning
CHAPTER
IHow the Good News came to Ravenna
IIThe Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
IIIThe Impresario's Report
IVPaolina Foscarelli
VRivalry
VIThe Beginning of Trouble
VIIThe Teaching of a Great Love
VIIIA Change in the Situation
IXUncle and Nephew
XThe Coutessa Violante
XIThe Cardinal's Reception, and the Marchese's Ball
XIIThe Arrival of the "Diva"
BOOK III "Sirenum Pocula"
CHAPTER
I"Diva Potens"
IIAn Adopted Father and an Adopted Daughter
III"Armed at All Points"
IVThrowing the Line
VAfter-thoughts
VIAt the Circolo
VIIExtremes Meet
VIIIThe Diva shows her Cards
IXOne Struggle more
BOOK IV The Last Days of the Carnival
CHAPTER
IIn the Cardinal's Chapel
IIThe Corso
III"La Sonnambula"
IVThe Marchese Lamberto's Correspondence
VBianca at Home
VIPaolina at Home
VIITwo Interviews
VIIIA Carnival Reception
IXPaolina's Return to the City
BOOK V Who Did The Deed?
CHAPTER
IAt the City Gate
IISuspicion
IIIGuilty or Not Guilty?
IVThe Marchese hears the Ill News
VDoubts and Possibilities
VIAt the Circolo again
VIIA Prison Visit
VIIISignor Giovacchino Fortini at Home
IXThe Post-Mortem Examination
XPublic Opinion
XIIn Father Fabiano's Cell
XIIThe Case against Paolina
BOOK VI Poena Pede Claudo
CHAPTER
ISignor Fortini receives the Signora Steno in his Studio
IIWas it Paolina after all?
IIICould it have been the Aged Friar?
IVWhat Ravenna thought of it
V"Miserrimus"
VIThe Trial
VIIThe Friar's Testimony
VIIIThe Truth!
IXConclusion