Publisher's Synopsis
Claiming to be translating from sixteenth-century manuscripts, Stendhal tells the story of two doomed young lovers-one the daughter of the wealthiest man in the district, the other a brigand. It's a genuinely moving tale of impossible love-with plenty of sword fights thrown in-that's unique in Stendhal's oeuvre, not least in its portrait of an intelligent woman who, ill-starred in love, turns to worldly power. There's also some sparkling analysis of the conditions that produced the great art of the Renaissance.
