In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Lillian Gish
as Romola
Dorothy Gish
as Tessa
William Powell
as Tito Melema
Ronald Colman
as Carlo Bucellini
Charles Lane
as Baldassar Calvo
Herbert Grimwood
as Savonarola
Bonaventura Ibáñez
as Bardo Bardi
Frank Puglia
as Adolfo Spini
Amelia Summerville
as Brigida
Tina Ceccaci Renaldi
as Monna Ghita
Eduilio Mucci
as Nello
Angela Scatigna
as Bratti
