The preface to the first edition suggests that it was found in a library in northern England, first printed in 1529, written in the purest Italian.
The preface to the first edition suggests that it was found in a library in northern England, first printed in 1529, written in the purest Italian. A prince seeks to make the fiancee of his dead son his own while trapping his own wife in a dungeon, but the whole thing is foiled as a peasant, who turns out to be a descendant of a former lord of the castle, leads the young Isabella though underground passages. The prince, Manfred, ends up doing penance in a monastery. FTP, identify this 1765 work, considered by many the first Gothic novel, written by Horace Walpole.
The preface to the first edition suggests that it was found in a library in northern England, first printed in 1529, written in the purest Italian.
The Castle of Otranto