How Lisa Loved the King

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How Lisa Loved the King is a work by George Eliot. The text places its story six hundred years ago, when Palermo town kept holiday. A character named Lisa is called the child of Bernardo, a rich Florentine who came to trade in drugs.

In all eyes, King Pedro was the king of cavaliers. Lines addressed to Love include the words 'O tell him I am waiting for my Death'. A betrothal was made between Perdicone, called youthful, brave and well-born, and Lisa, whom he loved. The king, who knew the youth was poor, gave him rich Ceffalù and Cataletta, described as large and fruitful lands.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876).