F. Marion Crawford

Don Orsino (Dodo Press) F. Marion Crawford

The Saracinesca series is perhaps known to be the best of Crawford's works. Set chiefly in Rome twenty years earlier, Saracinesca (1887) paints a rich picture of the period and proved to be both an immediate hit and Crawford's greatest critical success. It was also a commercial triumph. He followed it with two brilliant sequels, Sant' Ilario (1889) and Don Orsino (1892).