By Anne Rice
With Pandora, Anne Rice started an impressive new sequence of vampire novels. Now, within the moment of her New stories of the Vampires, she tells the enthralling tale of Vittorio, a vampire within the Italian Age of Gold.
Educated within the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, proficient in knighthood at his father's mountaintop citadel, Vittorio inhabits a global of courtly attractiveness and state pleasures—a global abruptly threatened whilst his whole kinfolk is faced through an unholy power.
In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by means of the vampire Ursula, the main attractive of his supernatural enemies. As he units out in pursuit of vengeance, coming into the nightmarish court docket of the Ruby Grail, a growing number of enchanted (and stressed) through his love for the mysterious Ursula, he reveals himself dealing with demonic adversaries, warfare and political intrigue.
Against a backdrop of the wonders—both sacred and profane—and the sweetness and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed younger love and misplaced innocence.
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