Experience the spellbinding world of Anne Rice's Vittorio The Vampire, a captivating novel that will take you on a mesmerizing journey of fantasy, history, and the supernatural. Join Vittorio, an immortal vampire in the “Italian Age Of Gold,” who is torn between his desire for love and his thirst for blood.He writes: “Who am I, Why I write, What is to come…” And so begins the tale… Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. ***This hardcover edition of New Tales of the Vampires Series features a dust jacket with very slight normal shelving wear to the top left edge, but with binding, hardcover and pages clean & intact.

ISBN: 9780375401602