Description:
Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes is a once-well-known novel (which incidentally was transformed into an opera by Richard Wagner). The author, who was also an aristocrat, a statesman and a socialite, created phrases including "the pen is mightier than the sword," but is
also famous for being parodied ("It was a dark and stormy night").
Publisher Rand McNally, known today for maps and atlases, begin in 1884 publishing general literature. This book is undated.
