Romola

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Lillian Gish Romola

Dorothy Gish Tessa

William Powell Tito Melema

Ronald Colman Carlo Bucellini

Charles Lane Baldassar Calvo