For 10 points, name this novel about a murder committed by Miriam and Donatello in Rome, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In this novel's chapter "Myths," one character describes a legend of a knight whose idyllic love for a water nymph is destroyed when he attempts to wash a bloodstain in her fountain. The expression of another character's face inspires an artist to paint her in the act of discovering a spot of blood on her white robe. That character lives in a tower where she tends a flock of doves and the fire of a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Two characters in this novel are reconciled while meeting at the bronze statue of (*) Julius III in Perugia--one of those characters, the Count de Monte Beni, loses his animal sprightliness and becomes melancholy after throwing a monk off the Tarpeian Rock. This novel ends with Hilda agreeing to marry Kenyon, and begins with American artists comparing a vivacious Italian to a sculpture by Praxiteles. For 10 points, name this novel about a murder committed by Miriam and Donatello in Rome, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In this novel's chapter "Myths," one character describes a legend of a knight whose idyllic love for a water nymph is destroyed when he attempts to wash a bloodstain in her fountain.
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