The passionate mediaeval tragedy Francesca of the Lilies, destined to enshrine his name in the temple of the masters, he wrote at the haunted Palazzo Concini in Tuscany, where, behind tomb-like doors, iron-studded and ominous, he worked in a low-beamed windowless room at a table which had belonged to Gilles de Rais, and by light of three bronze lamps found in the ruins of the Mamertine dungeons.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
He had just published the "Life of Gilles de Rais," which might interest a few artists, and he now remained without a subject, on the hunt for a book.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
No rivals Rais'd by such discreet applause; And yet, of credit it lays in a store, By which our spleen may wound true worth the more.
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young