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The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents
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Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
language : en
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Release Date : 1797
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1797 with Inquisition categories.
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents
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Author : Ann Radcliffe
language : en
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Release Date : 1826
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents written by Ann Radcliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1826 with categories.
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents
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Author : Ann Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents written by Ann Radcliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Abduction categories.
The Italian (1797) is a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration by the Inquisition. Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel exemplifies her definition of 'terror' writing, combining Romantic and Gothic elements and influencing countless later writers.
The Italian
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Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
language : en
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Release Date : 1811
The Italian written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1811 with categories.
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents
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Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
language : en
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Release Date : 1828
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The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents Dodo Press
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Author : Ann Radcliffe
language : en
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Release Date : 2008-04
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents Dodo Press written by Ann Radcliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Fiction categories.
Ann Radcliffe, nèe Ward (1764-1823) was an English author and a pioneer of the gothic novel. She married William Radcliffe, an editor for the English Chronicle, at Bath in 1788. The couple were childless. To amuse herself, she began to write fiction, which her husband encouraged. Her works were extremely popular among the upper class and the growing middle class, especially among young women. Her works included The Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents (1796). The success of The Romance of the Forest established Radcliffe as the leading exponent of the historical Gothic romance. Her later novels met with even greater attention, and produced many imitators, and famously, Jane Austen's burlesque of The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger Abbey, as well as influencing the works of Sir Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft.
The Italian
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Author : Ann Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-01-25
The Italian written by Ann Radcliffe and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-25 with categories.
The Italian or The Confessional of the Black Penitents - A Romance by Ann Radcliffe The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, which was published posthumously in 1826). The Italian has a dark, mysterious and somber tone, and concerns the themes of love, devotion and persecution by the Holy Inquisition. The novel also deals with issues prevalent at the time of the French Revolution, such as religion, aristocracy, and nationality. Radcliffe's renowned use of veiled imagery is considered to have reached its height of sophistication and complexity in The Italian; concealment and disguise are central motifs of the novel. In line with late 18th-century sensibility and its parallel fetishisation of the sublime and the sentimentally pastoral, the heightened emotional states of Radcliffe's characters are often reflected through the pathetic fallacy. The novel is noted for its extremely effective antagonist, Father Schedoni. About the year 1764, some English travellers in Italy, during one of their excursions in the environs of Naples, happened to stop before the portico of the Santa Maria del Pianto, a church belonging to a very ancient convent of the order of the Black Penitents. The magnificence of this portico, though impaired by time, excited so much admiration, that the travellers were curious to survey the structure to which it belonged, and with this intention they ascended the marble steps that led to it. Within the shade of the portico, a person with folded arms, and eyes directed towards the ground, was pacing behind the pillars the whole extent of the pavement, and was apparently so engaged by his own thoughts, as not to observe that strangers were approaching. He turned, however, suddenly, as if startled by the sound of steps, and then, without further pausing, glided to a door that opened into the church, and disappeared.
The Italian The Confessional Of The Black Penitents A Romance
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Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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The Italian The Confessional Of The Black Penitents A Romance written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincentio di Vivaldi first saw Ellena Rosalba. The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much indeed was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, which he fancied must express all the sensibility of character that the modulation of her tones indicated. He listened to their exquisite expression with a rapt attention, and hardly withdrew his eyes from her person till the matin service had concluded; when he observed her leave the church with an aged lady, who leaned upon her arm, and who appeared to be her mother. Vivaldi immediately followed their steps, determined to obtain, if possible, a view of Ellena’s face, and to discover the home to which she should retire. They walked quickly, looking neither to the right or left, and as they turned into the Strada di Toledo he had nearly lost them; but quickening his pace, and relinquishing the cautious distance he had hitherto kept, he overtook them as they entered on the Terrazzo Nuovo, which runs along the bay of Naples, and leads towards the Gran Corso. He overtook them; but the fair unknown still held her veil close, and he knew not how to introduce himself to her notice, or to obtain a view of the features, which excited his curiosity. He was embarrassed by a respectful timidity, that mingled with his admiration, and which kept him silent, notwithstanding his wish to speak. In descending the last steps of the Terrazzo, however, the foot of the elder lady faltered, and, while Vivaldi hastened to assist her, the breeze from the water caught the veil, which Ellena had no longer a hand sufficiently disengaged to confine, and, wafting it partially aside, disclosed to him a countenance more touchingly beautiful than he had dared to image. Her features were of the Grecian outline, and, though they expressed the tranquillity of an elegant mind, her dark blue eyes sparkled with intelligence. She was assisting her companion so anxiously, that she did not immediately observe the admiration she had inspired; but the moment her eyes met those of Vivaldi, she became conscious of their effect, and she hastily drew her veil. The old lady was not materially hurt by her fall, but, as she walked difficultly, Vivaldi seized the opportunity thus offered, and insisted that she should accept his arm. She refused this with many acknowledgments; but he pressed the offer so repeatedly and respectfully, that, at length, she accepted it, and they walked towards her residence together. On the way thither, he attempted to converse with Ellena, but her replies were concise, and he arrived at the end of the walk while he was yet considering what he could say, that might interest and withdraw her from this severe reserve. From the style of their residence, he imagined that they were persons of honourable, but moderate independence. The house was small, but exhibited an air of comfort, and even of taste. It stood on an eminence, surrounded by a garden and vineyards, which commanded the city and bay of Naples, an ever-moving picture, and was canopied by a thick grove of pines and majestic date-trees; and, though the little portico and collonade in front were of common marble, the style of architecture was elegant. While they afforded a shelter from the sun, they admitted the cooling breezes that rose from the bay below, and a prospect of the whole scope of its enchanting shores.
The Italian
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Author : Ann Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2016-09-12
The Italian written by Ann Radcliffe and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Fiction categories.
Vincentio di Vivaldi and Ellena di Rosalba are in love. "The Italian" – a story of love and treachery.
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents
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Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1797
The Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1797 with categories.