基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：544 页
出版日期：2001年01月
ISBN：0140437541
条形码：9780140437546
版本：New Ed
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：意大利人

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The haughty, manipulative Marchesa, determined to thwart the romance between her son, the young Neapolitan nobleman Vincentio di Vivaldi, and Elena di Rosalba, has enlisted the help of the villainous, scheming monk, Schedoni. With a livid paleness of face and a melancholy eye, whose brooding presence dominates the novel, Schedoni has become an archetype of Romantic literature. Set in the mid-eighteenth century against the dramatic, lush backdrop of the Bay of Naples, The Italian is a tale of passion, deceit, abduction, and the horrors of the Inquisition.

In one of the most powerful Gothic tales ever written, Mrs. Radcliffe, the unrivalled master of the genre, skillfully combines traditional elements of danger, romance, and the supernatural with her abiding interest in history and considerable ability to paint poetic images of sublime landscape. In the introduction, Robert Miles examines the novel's literary and historical context.
作者简介 Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), the leading writer of her time of Gothic fiction, published five novels in her lifetime, including The Mysteries of Udolfo (1794).

Robert Miles teaches English at Sheffield Hallam University. He is president of the International Gothic Association and editor-in-chief of the journal Gothic Studies.
媒体推荐 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An ingenious performance.


编辑推荐 Book jacket
"His cowl ... as it threw a shade over the livid paleness of his face, increased its severe character, and gave an effect to his large melancholy eye, which approached to horror"

Thus Ann Radcliffe introduces Schedoni, the villainous scheming monk, whose brooding presence dominates her novel, and who has become archetypal in Romantic literature. The Italian tells of the romance between the young Neapolitan nobleman Vincentio di Vivaldi and Ellena di Rosalba, a match opposed by the Marchesa, Vivaldi's haughty, manipulative mother. It is she who enlists the help of Schedoni. What ensues is fear, abduction and the terror of the Inquisition. When she wrote "The Italian", Ann Radcliffe was seen as the unrivalled exponent of the Gothic novel. With its sublime landscapes, pacey narrative, supernatural fears and nightmarish horrors, it is one of the finest Gothic romances ever written.