THE REMARKABLE YOUNG MAN

by Cecil Roberts ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Connective biographies carry forward the story of Joseph Severn whose devotion to the dying Keats captures the fancy of Rome's visiting English in the 1820's and give a montage of the life and times of Italy in its cosmopolitan, post-Napoleonic years. Penniless, almost starving, Severn's recognition after nursing Keats beings him commissions, friendships, and entree into high social and aristocratic circles. For the Lady Westmorland, the Duchess of Devonshire, Napoleon's mother, Madame Mere, Princess Borghese are only some of the titled who become part of Severn's new world, and it is due to Lady Westmorland's caprices that he wins the Prix de Rome, that he becomes an eligible bachelor and that the parade of Cardinals, patricians, and artists flash in and out of his life. There are deaths, marriages, scandal -- and Severn looses his pretty bonds when he elopes with Lady Westmorland's enslaved ward, Elizabeth. A fortune's favorite who was young -- likable -- but not THAT ""remarkable"".

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Publisher: Macmillan

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION