Consuelo (novel)

According to The Nuttall Encyclopædia, it is "[Sand's] masterpiece; the impersonation of the triumph of moral purity over manifold temptations."

It is one that I wish the rest of you had more of..." — Consuelo is a Spanish girl abandoned in Italy whose voice attracts the old maestro Nicola Porpora.

Through all these adventures, Consuelo becomes an untouchable figure of the European artistic landscape of the 18th century thanks to the music and the support of her master, the Porpora.

The two volumes, Consuelo and La comtesse de Rudolstadt, were edited separately but constitute a single work.

However, from the 1960s to the 1970s, the rest of Sand's work began to be rediscovered through critical editions, colloquia and scholarly studies.