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Agnes of Sorrento
The story is set in the idyllic coastal town of Sorrento, Italy, during a period that evokes themes of spirituality and personal struggle, particularly as they relate to the life of the main character, Agnes.
"Agnes of Sorrento" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel. The story is set in the idyllic coastal town of Sorrento, Italy, during a period that evokes themes of spirituality and personal struggle, particularly as they relate to the life of the main character, Agnes.
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The setting sunbeams slant over the antique gateway of Sorrento, fusing into a golden bronze the brown freestone vestments of old Saint Antonio, who with his heavy stone mitre and upraised hands has for centuries kept watch thereupon.
A quiet time he has of it up there in the golden Italian air, in petrified act of blessing, while orange lichens and green mosses from year to year embroider quaint patterns on the seams of his sacerdotal vestments, and small tassels of grass volunteer to ornament the folds of his priestly drapery, and golden showers of blossoms from some more hardy plant fall from his ample sleeve-cuffs. Little birds perch and chitter and wipe their beaks unconcernedly, now on the tip of his nose and now on the point of his mitre, while the world below goes on its way pretty much as it did when the good saint was alive, and, in despair of the human brotherhood, took to preaching to the birds and the fishes.
Whoever passed beneath this old arched gateway, thus saint-guarded, in the year of our Lord's grace ——, might have seen under its shadow, sitting opposite to a stand of golden oranges, the little Agnes.
A very pretty picture was she, reader,—with such a2 face as you sometimes see painted in those wayside shrines of sunny Italy, where the lamp burns pale at evening, and gillyflower and cyclamen are renewed with every morning.
Contents
- 01Introductory Note
- 02Agnes of Sorrento
- 03Chapter I the Old Town
- 04Chapter II the Dove-Cot
- 05Chapter III the Gorge
- 06Chapter IV Who and What
- 07Chapter V Il Padre Francesco
- 08Chapter VI the Walk to the Convent
- 09Chapter VII the Day at the Convent
- 10Chapter VIII the Cavalier
- 11Chapter IX the Artist Monk
- 12Chapter X the Interview
- 13Chapter XI the Confessional
- 14Chapter XII Perplexities
- 15Chapter XIII the Monk and the Cavalier
- 16Chapter XIV the Monk's Struggle
- 17Chapter XV the Serpent's Experiment
- 18Chapter XVI Elsie Pushes Her Scheme
- 19Chapter XVII the Monk's Departure
- 20Chapter XVIII the Penance
- 21Chapter XIX Clouds Deepening
- 22Chapter XX Florence and Her Prophet
- 23Chapter XXI the Attack on San Marco
- 24Chapter XXII the Cathedral
- 25Chapter XXIII the Pilgrimage
- 26Chapter XXIV the Mountain Fortress
- 27Chapter XXV the Crisis
- 28Chapter XXVI Rome
- 29Chapter XXVII the Saint's Rest
- 30Chapter XXVIII Palm Sunday
- 31Chapter XXIX the Night-Ride
- 32Chapter XXX "Let Us Also Go, That We May Die with Him"
- 33Chapter XXXI Martyrdom
- 34Chapter XXXII Conclusion
- 35Transcriber's Notes
About this edition
- Author
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 350 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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