Don Orsino

The third novel in F. Marion Crawford's "Saracinesca" series. Crawford hones down his style to a greater concision than he usually mustered, and his eye on the changing social conditions of Italy in the 19th century remained as acute as in the first book in the series. In "Don Orsino", their eponymous son seeks out love and fortune as a real estate bubble burgeons and bursts in late 19th century Rome.