By Pío Baroja

By Pío Baroja

Translated from the Spanish by Louis How

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

PART ONE.   ROME

I.   THE PARIS-VENTIMIGLIA EXPRESS

II.   AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY

III.   CÆSAR MONCADA

IV.   PEOPLE WHO PASS CLOSE BY

V.   THE ABBE PRECIOZI. THE BIG BIRDS IN ROME

VI.   THE LITTLE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE IN A ROMAN HOTEL

VII.   THE CONFIDENCES OF THE ABBE PRECIOZI

VIII.   OLD PALACES, OLD SALONS, OLD LADIES

IX.   NEW ACQUAINTANCES

X.   A BALL

XI.   A SOUNDING-LINE IN THE DARK WORLD

XII.   A MEETING ON THE PINCIO

XIII.   ESTHETICS AND DEMAGOGY

XIV.   NEW ATTEMPTS, NEW RAMBLES

XV.   GIOVANNI BATTISTA, PAGAN

XVI.   THE PORTRAIT OF A POPE

XVII.   EVIL DAYS

XVIII.   CÆSAR BORGIA’S MOTTO, “AUT CÆSAR, AUT NIHIL”

XIX.   CÆSAR’S REFLECTIONS

XX.   DON CALIXTO AT SAINT PETER’S

XXI.   DON CALIXTO IN THE CATACOMBS

XXII.   SENTIMENTALITY AND ARCHEOLOGY

XXIII.   THE ‘SCUTCHEON OF A CHURCH

XXIV.   TOURIST INTERLUDE



PART TWO.   CASTRO DURO

I.   ARRIVAL. CÆSAR IN ACTION

II.   CASTRO DURO

III.   CÆSAR’S LABOURS

IV.   THE BOOKSELLER AND THE ANARCHISTS

V.   THE BANQUET

VI.   UNCLE CHINAMAN

VII.   A TRYING SCENE

VIII.   THE ELECTION

IX.   CÆSAR AS DEPUTY

X.   POLITICAL LABOURS

XI.   THE PITFALL OF SINIGAGLIA

XIII.   AMPARITO IN ACTION

XIV.   INTRANSIGENCE LOST

XV.   "DRIVELLER” JUAN AND “THE CUB-SLUT”

XVI.   PITY, A MASK OF COWARDICE

XVII.   FIRST VICTORY

XVIII.   DECLARATION OF WAR

XIX.   THE FIGHT FOR THE ELECTION

XX.   CONFIDENCE

XXI.   OUR VENERABLE TRADITIONS! OUR HOLY PRINCIPLES!

XXII.   FINIS GLORIÆ MUNDI. FROM A SOCIETY COLUMN