Sinopsis

“The child is father of the man.”
In a small marble-paved court belonging to the newly-built palace of King
Joao the First of Portugal, on a splendid summer day in the year 1415, five
youths were engaged in earnest consultation. The summer air, the luscious
scent of the orange-trees beneath which they were seated, might have
inclined them to mere lazy enjoyment of their young existence—the busy
sounds from the tilt-yard near have summoned them to the sports and
exercises for which their graceful, well-grown strength evidently fitted
them, or the books, several of which were scattered on the marble steps of
the court, have employed their attention. But they were evidently so deepl...