Under the Witches' Moon: A Romantic Tale of Mediaeval Rome

Under the Witches' Moon burns with the heat of medieval Rome in summer. Pilgrim Tristan of Avalon arrives in the city on the eve of St. John, seeking redemption but finding something far more dangerous: a mysterious woman whose presence promises ruin. Gallizier renders 10th-century Rome as a place of torchlit riots, political assassination, and desire that defies church law, a city still half-pagan beneath its Christian skin. The encounter ignites a doomed romance entangled with the political upheaval threatening the papacy itself. Written in 1917 with baroque richness and Gothic atmosphere, this is historical romance before it softened, when stories dared to be sensual, sinister, and spiritually anxious all at once. It captures the eternal war between flesh and salvation, and the terrible beauty of choosing damnation.