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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.Read moreLess
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 & crew
Lillian GishRomola
Dorothy GishTessa
William PowellTito Melema
Ronald ColmanCarlo Bucellini
Charles LaneBaldassar Calvo
Frank PugliaAdolfo Spini
Amelia SummervilleBrigidaExplore the crew
- Writer
- Will M. Ritchey
- Director
- Henry King
- Editor
- Duncan Mansfield
- Director of Photography
- Roy F. Overbaugh
- Director of Photography
- William Schurr
- Original Music Composer
- Louis F. Gottschalk