Stendhal,  1783-1842 <br/><br/>
L'Abbesse De Castro 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_badessa_di_Castro  Release date is 1997-01-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by Tokuya Matsumoto  Produced by Tokuya Matsumoto 
<br/><br/> "L'Abbesse de Castro" by Stendhal is a novella published in 1839. Set in sixteenth-century Italy, this tale follows the forbidden romance between Elena di Campireali, a young woman of noble birth, and Giulio Branciforte, son of a brigand. Their passionate love faces violent family opposition, forced separation, and tragic misunderstandings. Years later, believing her lover dead, Elena becomes an abbess and enters a scandalous relationship that brings devastating consequences. Based on Renaissance-era documents Stendhal discovered during his Italian travels, this story explores love, revenge, and guilt against the backdrop of papal Rome. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Italy -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction French fiction -- 19th century 
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