Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - of Rennaisance Italy, with it's art and ferocity, angels and demons, Anne Rice introduces a seductive new character and creates a passionate traggic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire. And, beyond even these perils, Vittorio faces being torn apart by a dangerous love. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and 'incalculably rich' in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. But though he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, he finds himself at the mercy of demonic, bloody nightmares, war and political intrique. Escaping to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici, he seeks vengeance and retribution. Sixteen years old, Vittorio is the sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan palazzo. But though he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman A Vampire Chronicles novella from the internationally bestselling Anne RiceA VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD. A Vampire Chronicles novella from the internationally bestselling Anne RiceA VAMPIRE IN THE ITALIAN AGE OF GOLD.
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