Rienzi by Edward Bulwer-lytton — Read

While Rienzi was preparing, in concert, perhaps, with the ambassadors of / the brave Tuscan States, whose pride of country and love of liberty / were well fitted to comprehend, and even share them, his schemes for / the emancipation from all foreign yoke of the Ancient Queen, and the / Everlasting Garden, of the World; the Barons, in restless secrecy, were / revolving projects for the restoration of their own power.

One morning, the heads of the Savelli, the Orsini, and the Frangipani, / met at the disfortified palace of Stephen Colonna. Their conference / was warm and earnest -- now resolute, now wavering, in its object -- as / indignation or fear prevailed.