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Romola
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Henry King
Will M. Ritchey
Casts & Crew
Lillian Gish
Dorothy Gish
William Powell
Ronald Colman
Charles Lane
Herbert Grimwood
Bonaventura Ibáñez
Frank Puglia
Amelia Summerville
Tina Ceccaci Renaldi
Eduilio Mucci
Angela Scatigna
Ugo Uccellini
Alfredo Martinelli
Attilo Deodati
Gastone Barnardi
Alfredo Bertone
Pietro Betti
Gino Borsi
Toto Lo Bue
Ferdinando Chianese
Francesco Ciancamerla
Baron Alfredo Del Judici
Carlo Duse
Alfredo Fossi
Marchese Fabrizio Gonzaga
Marchese Imperiale
Baron Serge Kopfe
Enrico Monti
Pietro Nistri
Princess Bianca Raffaello
Thelma Raye
Rinaldo Rinaldi
Princess Isabella Romanoff
Giovanni Salvini
Prince Alexander Talone
Countess Tamburini
Countess Tolombi
Baron Giuseppe Winspere
Giuseppe Zocchi
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