Handsome copy green cloth Unmarked throughout. Bright pages. The action of the novella is set in Renaissance Italy; in Florence with the intrigues romantic in an ironic way. This novella came out the same year as Stendahl's much heavier Italian novel; The Charterhouse of Parma. Stendahl was serving as the French Ambassador to Italy. The Abbess of Castro; Vittoria Accoramboni; The Cenci;The Duchess of Palliano; Vanina Vanini. Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (who also translated beautifully the Proust Remembrances of things Past.).

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Title

THE ABBESS OF CASTRO AND OTHER TALES

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Boni & Liveright

Publication Date

1926

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Hardcover

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Very Good

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