Movie

Romola

★ 6.7/10 · 6 votes 1924 1h 46m Released

DramaHistory

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.

Cast

Lillian Gish Romola Dorothy Gish Tessa William Powell Tito Melema Ronald Colman Carlo Bucellini Charles Lane Baldassar Calvo H Herbert Grimwood Savonarola