Word: deodato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three cities are, in that order, Rome, London, Paris. In Rome young Deodato is a foundling, serving, unwillingly, as a Franciscan friar. What really interests him is sculpture, a young woman who looks like a statue by Bernini, and her revolutionary brother, whom he hides in the Catacombs...
...London young Deodato, escaped from friarhood, seeks his lost identity, gets involved in a slummy, fancy piece of Victorian poisoning, yearns for the beautiful young woman, and exposes himself to some of the deadliest mid-19th-Century slang to be found in any 20th-century novel...
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