# St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century Author: Godwin, William, 1756-1836 Genre: Category: Historical Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53707 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=St.+Leon%3A+A+Tale+of+the+Sixteenth+Century+Godwin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable, that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize. In the early ages of antiquity, one of the favourite topics of speculation was a perfect system of civil policy; and no sooner had Plato delineated his imaginary republic, than he sought for a spot of earth upon which to execute his plan. In my own times, and for upwards of a century before them, the subject which has chiefly occupied men of intrepid and persevering study, has been the great secret of nature, the _opus magnum_, in its two grand and inseparable branches, the art of multiplying gold, and of defying the inroads of infirmity and death. ## Chapters - [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/47/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/16/index.md) - [scene I beheld. The country in some places entirely deserted; villages](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER XL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/40/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XLII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/35/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-leon-a-tale-of-the-sixteenth-century-53707/chapters/38/index.md)