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.

Director: Henry King

Cast

Lillian Gish

Romola

Dorothy Gish

Tessa

William Powell

Tito Melema

Ronald Colman

Carlo Bucellini

Charles Lane

Baldassar Calvo

H

Herbert Grimwood

Savonarola

B

Bonaventura Ibáñez

Bardo Bardi

Frank Puglia

Adolfo Spini