In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This author wrote about Octave de Malivert's love with the title character in Armance, and also published a story collection called the Italian Chronicles. This man also wrote about a resident of Lake Como who attempts to join Napoleon's army before that man, Fabrizio del Dongo, ultimately retires to the titular residence. In addition to The (*) Charterhouse of Parma, this man wrote a novel whose protagonist is sentenced to death after shooting at Madame de Renal. For 10 points, name this French author who created Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black.
Literature

The person on the left side of this painting, wearing an apron and sailor trousers, is next to a kneeling man with green trousers, a black suit, and black top hat. That man's knee is on the same cobblestones as the hands of the person with a blue shirt and red bandana who is looking up. The right side of this work shows a student with a cartridge pouch carried in a sling over his shoulder and with a gun in each hand. There are also wounded bodies lying on the ground, and the central figure has a loose yellow dress and is holding up a flag. Name this work set during the July Revolution showing the tricolor flag of France, painted by Eugene Delacroix [deh-lah-kwah].
Fine Arts

This novel's protagonist creates such compositions as Marvels of the Universe and an operatic adaptation of Love's Labor's Lost. That man studies the piano with Wendell Kretschmar and takes theology classes under Ehrenfried Kumpf and Eberhard Schleppfuss. Rdiger Schildknapp is forced to perform the hackwork of translation, and the name Heraeta Esmeralda describes both a butterfly and a syphilis-ridden prostitute in Serenus Zeitblom's narration. FTP, name this novel about Adrian Leverkhn, who trades his soul for twenty-four years of musical talent, written by Thomas Mann.

Literature