The title character, Beatrice, is "arrayed with as much richness of taste as the most splendid of the flowers".
This work is introduced as being from the writings of Aubépine, a play on the author's name, though he later says his influence was a story involving Alexander the Great. The title character, Beatrice, is "arrayed with as much richness of taste as the most splendid of the flowers". Another character is warned by Dr. Baglioni not to visit the title character's father. This eventually leads him to get a sickness after the title character breathes on him in, FTP, what Nathaniel Hawthorne story about a poisonous girl?
This work is introduced as being from the writings of Aubépine, a play on the author's name, though he later says his influence was a story involving Alexander the Great.
{“Rappaccini’s Daughter”}