The main villain in this work attempts to have his son marry the marquis of Vicenza's daughter.
It was written under the pretense that the manuscript was medieval in date and that the author had merely served as translator from the original Italian. The main villain in this work attempts to have his son marry the marquis of Vicenza's daughter. Of the many supernatural events that take place, an enormous helmet crushes the villain's son and a huge ghost wrecks the title location. Isabella is proclaimed the wife of the good peasant Theodore, much to the dismay of Manfred, the prince of the title castle. FTP, identify this first Gothic novel by Horace Walpole.
It was written under the pretense that the manuscript was medieval in date and that the author had merely served as translator from the original Italian.
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