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"Lavinia: A Novel" by Giovanni Ruffini. In a melodramatic, politically charged mid-19th-century Europe, Paolo Mancini, a gifted Italian painter, and Lavinia Jones, an English heiress, navigate love, artistic ambition, and social change across Rome, Paris, and the Crimea. As memory, guilt, and duty intertwine, a circle of friends confront temptation, war, and moral reform: Mortimer Thornton’s monomania about a drowned girl, Clara’s plan to heal him, and Salvator Rosa’s buoyant optimism about Italian unification under Piedmontese leadership. The novel traces Paolo’s awakening to purpose, his moral growth, and his wound and amputation in the Crimea, while Lavinia becomes a nurse-ally and partner in charitable service. Reunions in the Crimea and Scutari lead to marriages and an affectionate epilogue across Cypress Hall, Owlscombe, and Italian estates, where art, friendship, and duty forge a hopeful personal and national destiny, with ongoing social advocacy and humanitarian work.
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