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Romola
Film / 1924

Romola

Directed by Henry King
DramaHistory

★ 6.7/10Audience rating

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.

The story

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.

Cast

Lillian GishRomola Dorothy GishTessa William PowellTito Melema Ronald ColmanCarlo Bucellini Charles LaneBaldassar Calvo Herbert GrimwoodSavonarola Bonaventura IbáñezBardo Bardi Frank PugliaAdolfo Spini Amelia SummervilleBrigida Tina Ceccaci RenaldiMonna Ghita Eduilio MucciNello Angela ScatignaBratti
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Ugo UccelliniBishop of Nemours Alfredo MartinelliCaptain of the Barque Attilo DeodatiTomaso Gastone BarnardiCouncil of Eight member Alfredo BertonePiero de Medici Pietro BettiFra Sylvestro Gino BorsiCaptain of the Barque Toto Lo BueFra Benaducci Ferdinando ChianeseArchbishop Francesco CiancamerlaCouncil of Eight member Baron Alfredo Del JudiciCouncil of Eight member Carlo DuseBargello Alfredo FossiPirate Gallery Master Marchese Fabrizio GonzagaBanquet Guest Marchese ImperialeBanquet Guest Baron Serge KopfeCouncil of Eight member Enrico MontiCouncil of Eight member Pietro NistriPirate Captain Princess Bianca RaffaelloBanquet Guest Thelma RayeBit Part Rinaldo RinaldiCouncil of Eight member Princess Isabella RomanoffBanquet Guest Giovanni SalviniCouncil of Eight member Prince Alexander TaloneBanquet Guest Countess TamburiniBanquet Guest Countess TolombiBanquet Guest Baron Giuseppe WinspereCouncil of Eight member Giuseppe ZocchiExecutioner Sira SarriMadona fiorentina

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