Romola in her Place
Title
Romola in her Place
Alt Text Description
Grayscale illustration of a ship navigating a stormy sea and approaching land. The ships tilts with the impact of the waves and wind.
Description
As famine and disease grip Florence, violent gales at sea drive supply ships away, leaving the city cut off from food and aid. The storm-tossed ship embodies this disruption, and its failure to reach land deepens public despair and intensifies the people’s need for hope through Savonarola’s return.
“But the Florentines just then thought very little about the land breezes: they were thinking of the gales at sea, which seemed to be uniting with all other powers to disprove the Frate's declaration that Heaven took special care of Florence. For those terrible gales had driven away from the coast of Leghorn certain ships from Marseilles, freighted with soldiery and com; and Florence was in the direst need, first of food, and secondly of fighting men" ("Romola in her Place", Chapter 42).
“But the Florentines just then thought very little about the land breezes: they were thinking of the gales at sea, which seemed to be uniting with all other powers to disprove the Frate's declaration that Heaven took special care of Florence. For those terrible gales had driven away from the coast of Leghorn certain ships from Marseilles, freighted with soldiery and com; and Florence was in the direst need, first of food, and secondly of fighting men" ("Romola in her Place", Chapter 42).
Illustrator
Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896)
Contributor
Swain, Joseph (1820-1909), engraver
Publisher
George Eliot Archive , edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
Date
1863, 1880
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Work Illustrated
Romola
Citation
Leighton, Frederic (1830-1896), Romola in her Place, George Eliot Illustrations Gallery, George Eliot Archive , edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/83585
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