Italian

Ann Radcliffe is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality.

Ann Radcliffe este marea preoteasa a romanului gotic. In The Italian, publicata pentru prima data in 1797, ea creeaza o combinatie infioratoare si atmosferica de indragostiti zadarniciti, manastiri ruinate, inchisoare si pasaje intunecate, cu un curent subteran de sexualitate clocotita.