Three Italian chronicles
By: Stendhal ; translated by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff ; introduction by Richard Howard.
Series: A Revived modern classic; A New Directions paperback ;; 704
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.; New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Stendhal, 1783-1842 -- Translations into English.; Italy -- Fiction.
Description: Three novellas of Italian passion by the great French author tell of the infamous trial of a young Roman noblewoman for the murder of her father, the illicit liaison and subsequent trial of an abbess, and the fortunes of a Roman aristocrats daughter who falls in love with a wounded soldier.
Notes: Translated from French.
Table of contents: title: The cenci; title: The abbess of Castro; title: Vanina Vanini.