The Italian (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Radcliffe, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192832549 ISBN 13: 9780192832542

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

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Book by Radcliffe Ann

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`His figure was striking, but not so from grace ... and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air; something almost super-human.' First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's most brilliant creation, the sinister monk Schedoni, whose past is shrouded in mystery. From the novel's opening chapters the reader is ushered into a shadowy world in which crime and religion are mingled. In the church of Santa Maria del Pianto in Naples, Ellena Rosalba and Vincentio di Vivaldi first meet; but their love is ill-omened. Leagued against them are the proud and ambitious Marchese di Vivaldi and her confessor Father Schedoni. When Ellena vanishes on the death of her guardian, Vivaldi sets out in pursuit of her across the mountainous regions of southern Italy before himself falling prey to the Holy Inquisition. This revised and expanded edition explores the novel in the context of British attitudes to Italy and Roman Catholicism in the late eighteenth century with close attention to the novel's style and form.

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• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192832549
• ISBN 13: 9780192832542
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Herausgeber: Garber Frederick