The Italian - Couverture souple

Radcliffe, Anne

 
9781847490544: The Italian

Synopsis

Written in 1796, "The Italian", with its archetypal villain Schedoni, intense romance between Vincentio di Vivaldi and Elena di Rosalba, and immaculate poetics of the sublime is the masterpiece of gothic fiction. Enlisted by Vincentio's mother, Marchesa, the scheming monk Schedoni casts a malevolent presence throughout the book in his plot to corrupt the romance of the young lovers. On the backdrop of the Inquisition and the French Revolution, it is a tale of the heroic struggle of love in the face of vindictive Machiavellian deceit told through the intensel descriptive landscapes of the Bay of Naples.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anne Radcliffe is the quintessential gothic novelist and The Italian, with its merciless villains, passionate romance and lyrical proto-cinematic narrative teeming with latent eroticism and sublime lyricism, has become the standard bearer for the genre.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780199537402: The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0199537402 ISBN 13 :  9780199537402
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2008
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