The hero is newly arrived in Padua and is unaware of a feud between his neighbor and the man whose triumphant exclamation ends this work, Signor Baglioni.
The preface to this work explains that it is lifted from a translation of the Count Bearhaven. That translation was of a tale by the author of "The Voyage of Celeste," one Monsieur de l'Aubepine. The work itself begins with the hero taking up residence in a mansion kept by Dame Lisabetta. The hero is newly arrived in Padua and is unaware of a feud between his neighbor and the man whose triumphant exclamation ends this work, Signor Baglioni. Thus, Giovanni Guasconti unknowingly effects the death of his love, the title character. FTP, name this work in which that title character is pure poison, a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The preface to this work explains that it is lifted from a translation of the Count Bearhaven.
{Rappacini’s Daughter}