The Radcliffe, Ann Ward 1764-1823 creator text utu 2024 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Italian, Volume 1 (of 3): or, the confessional of the Black Penitents" by Ann Radcliffe is a Gothic novel published in 1796. When young Vivaldi falls for the beautiful but poor Ellena, his aristocratic mother enlists her sinister confessor, Father Schedoni, to destroy the match. What follows is a dark tale of kidnapping, disguise, and persecution set against the backdrop of the Inquisition, where mysterious monks issue warnings, convents imprison innocents, and shocking secrets threaten to surface in shadowy confessionals. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_(Radcliffe_novel) Release date is 2024-10-27 Delphine Lettau and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at pgdpcanada.net from images generously made available by Internet Archive/European Libraries Originally published: United Kingdom: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797 Horror tales Love stories Gothic fiction Kidnapping -- Fiction Inquisition -- Fiction Naples (Italy) -- Fiction Monks -- Italy -- Fiction PR United Kingdom: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797 https://archive.org/details/italianorconfes00radcgoog/page/n8,https://archive.org/details/italianorconfes02radcgoog/page/n8,https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cBkGAAAAQAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&redir_esc=y https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74643 https://archive.org/details/italianorconfes00radcgoog/page/n8,https://archive.org/details/italianorconfes02radcgoog/page/n8,https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cBkGAAAAQAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&redir_esc=y https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74643 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134728.0 74643