
Romola
A lavish silent spectacle that sweeps you into Renaissance intrigue, with grand emotions and moral downfall playing out in expressive gestures.
- Directed by
- Henry King
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Starring
- Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell
- Overview
- 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.
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- Directed by
- Henry King
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Starring
- Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell












