The Italian (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Ward
- First Published: 1797
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: 1758
- Setting: Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction, Suspense
- Subjects: Class conflict, Prisoners, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Rape, Eighteenth century, Good and evil, Human behavior, Kidnapping, Italy or Italians, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Convents or nunneries, Nuns, Nobility, Inquisition
- Locales: Naples, Italy
Characters Discussed
Vincentio di Vivaldi (veen-chehn- TEE-oh dee vee-VAHL-dee), a young nobleman of Naples. Impressed by the grace and voice of the veiled Ellena di Rosalba, he is warned by a ghostly stranger not to seek her identity. Disregarding the warning, he succeeds in learning the young woman’s name, falls in love with her, and determines to marry her in spite of his parents’ strenuous objections because of her apparent lowly station. His mother’s plottings to prevent the alliance set up a train of sinister events through which the young man passes before he is...
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