The Piazza Tales Chapter 6 - The Bell-Tower

from The Herman Melville Library · host Herman Melville

In which a far-reaching and singularly lofty Bell-Tower, the labour of a brilliant mechanician named Bannadonna, rises with slow majesty in a southern European plain, crowned with bells of rare design and a secret automaton concealed in shadow. Amid public awe and whispered mystery, the tower’s strange occupant and its dread purpose unfold with tragic consequence, weaving artifice and ambition into a dark mechanical parable.

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