TY - BOOK AU - Stendhal TI - L'Abbesse De Castro AV - PQ PY - 1997/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Italy -- Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_badessa_di_Castro; Release date is 1997-01-01; Produced by Tokuya Matsumoto; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/797 ER -