Fleeing from the primal scene, he follows the fiends in search of vengeance, and instead is overcome by the devastatingly beautiful 'strega,' the bare-shouldered Ursula. In the year 1450, he witnesses the massacre of his entire family by a band of demons. A STORY ILLUMINATED WITH THE METAPHOR OF GOLD, DRENCHED IN HELLISH DARKNESS AND DRIPPING WITH BLOOD.' -USA Today ' LUSHLY DESCRIBED STORY OF HOW VITTORIO DI RINIARI BECAME A VAMPIRE. Its intensity never flags.' -Los Angeles Times 'MASTERFUL. An opulent feast for the imagination, the lust and passion of the early fourteenth century come to life in Rice's vivid prose.' -Rocky Mountain News 'A READER'S DELIGHT.' -Philadelphia Inquirer, 'Sensuous. SUPERBLY WRITTEN AND ENGAGING.' -Associated Press 'VITTORIO is set against a magnificent backdrop of history and lore. His desire for revenge-and his desire for Ursula-propels him in a dizzy descent to religion's darkest side.' -Publishers Weekly 'ANOTHER ENCHANTING PRETERNATURAL TALE.

As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.Īgainst a backdrop of the wonders-both sacred and profane-and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.'Sensuous. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.Įducated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures-a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels.

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