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Under the Witches' Moon By Nathan Gallizier
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The Sorceress of RomeBy Nathan Gallizier
"A Romance of Byzantine Constantinople" by Nathan Gallizier (1866-1927), author of The Hill of Venus and The Sorceress of Rome.
Reproduction of the original: Under the Witches’ Moon by Nathan Gallizier
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The darkness of the tenth century is dissipated by no contemporary historian. Monkish chronicles alone shed a faint light over the discordant chaos of the Italian world. Rome was no longer the capital of the earth. The seat of empire had shifted from the banks of the Tiber to the shores of the Bosporus, and the seven hilled city of Constantine had assumed the imperial purple of the ancient capital of the Cæsars. Centuries of struggles with the hosts of foreign invaders had in time lowered the state of civilization to such a degree, that in point of literature and art the Rome of the tenth century could not boast of a single name worthy of being transmitted to posterity. Even the memory of t...