![]() ![]() Whosoever Shall Offend (1904) - Rome and vicinity ![]() Taquisara (1896) - Naples, Muro Lucano (Basilicata)Ĭorleone (1897) - Sicily, Rome, sequel to Don Orsino Pietro Ghisleri (1893) - Rome and nearby GeranoĬasa Braccio (1895) - Subiaco (Lazio), sequel to The Ralstons, set in New York The Children of the King (1893) - Gulf of Salerno, area around Torre Crawford, Sorrento Sant’Ilario (1889) - Rome, sequel to Saracinescaĭon Orsino (1892) - Rome, sequel to Sant’Ilario To Leeward (1884) - Rome, Sorrento, Castellamare, Naples, Genoa, TurinĪ Roman Singer (1884) - Rome, Palestrina, Filettino (Abruzzo) ![]() Free online reading or downloads are also available through Project Gutenberg or the Open Library. Good, comprehensive libraries will have many if not all of his works. The following is a list of Francis Marion Crawford’s novels that take place in Italy. The grotto of Arco Magno, Photo © Stefano Contin () He went there alone, to rest from everything connected with modern life, and he found it a fine, quiet place for writing…” ARCO MAGNO IN SAN NICOLA ARCELLA Locals refer to the tower by the name of the author as he not only lived in it but set what was to become one of his most enduring short stories there, “For the Blood is the Life.” In her memoir Italian Yesterdays, his sister referred to the tower as “inconveniently isolated” and said, “My dear brother Marion could never resist the call of fortressed solitudes…. First comes Dino Island off Praia a Mare and then the tower that sits on a spit of land sticking out into the bay in the town of San Nicola Arcella. Driving the coastal road south along the Tyrrhenian Sea, the tower can be spotted just over the border of Basilicata into Calabria. Torre Crawford in San Nicola Arcella, Photo © Stefano Contin ()įrancis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) first came to my attention in a meaningful way through the tower named after him in Calabria, the Torre Crawford. ![]()
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