Massimilla Doni

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Massimilla Doni is a work by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and James Waring. The dedication to Jacques Strunz speaks of setting his name at the head of one of the two tales that could never have been written but for his patient kindness and care. The Duchess Cataneo, called a lovely daughter of Tuscany, wears her French attire with perfect freedom.

Emilio is seated at her side, gazing at her with utter absorption. A man who died is said to have lived in a little den near San Benedetto, and to have had two million francs invested in the funds of various countries of Europe. Beatrice is spoken of as the thing which Europeans least understand in all Dante.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.