Romola
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You are Tito Melema, a shipwrecked Greek scholar, passed hand to hand through Florence by a ragman, a market girl, and a barber until you land in the house of the blind Bardo de' Bardi and his daughter Romola. You sell a ring you were carrying for your missing guardian Baldassarre, five hundred florins Romola warns you not to let comfort claim. At the festival of San Giovanni, a dying friar finds you with word that Baldassarre is alive, enslaved, and waiting on those same jewels to buy his freedom.
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- The Price of the GemsFlorence