L'Abbesse De Castro by Stendhal
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"L'Abbesse de Castro" by Stendhal is a novella published in 1839. Set in sixteenth-century Italy, this tale follows the forbidden romance between Elena di Campireali, a young woman of noble birth, and Giulio Branciforte, son of a brigand. Their passionate love faces violent family opposition, forced separation, and tragic misunderstandings. Years later, believing her lover dead, Elena becomes an abbess and enters a scandalous relationship that brings devastating consequences. Based on Renaissance-era
documents Stendhal discovered during his Italian travels, this story explores love, revenge, and guilt against the backdrop of papal Rome. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Stendhal, 1783-1842 |
|---|---|
| Title | L'Abbesse De Castro |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_badessa_di_Castro |
| Credits | Produced by Tokuya Matsumoto |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Italy -- Fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 797 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-00797-7 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 1997 |
| Last Update | Oct 5, 2013 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 601 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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