Romola Chapter 5 - The Blind Scholar and his Daughter

In which the venerable Bardo de’ Bardi, a blind and impoverished scholar of ancient texts and artefacts, reflects with a delicate mixture of pride and sorrow upon his solitary devotion to learning and his hopes for his daughter Romola’s future. Amidst the quiet grandeur of their Florentine home, Romola reads to her father, revealing the tender bond between them and the weight of unspoken aspirations that bind their shared life to the legacy of a fading past.