Bardo deʹBardi.
A wealthy Florentine scholar, father of Romola, in George Eliot’s Romola, a novel (1863).
A wealthy Florentine scholar, father of Romola, in George Eliot’s Romola, a novel (1863).
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.