Mário de Carvalho - Novelas Extravagantes

Four hundred thousand sesterces. A debt to be collected. A centurion's son on a quest for the cart tracks of Lusitania, each fortune unraveling its misfortune, and the goddess Fortuna guarding the vicissitudes of this poor Roman citizen. The Crusades. A knight returns from the Moors. An unfulfilled promise, a bitter bride demanding revenge, and the goddess Fortuna who does not reward the bold. The final days of Marcelism. A young revolutionary on a night stroll through Lisbon. An entire city in collusion with the political police to capture him, and the goddess Fortuna who fails to meet him on a certain day in April.