Saracinesca

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).