Three Italian Chronicles: Stories
Stendhal / Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Italian passion--"the passion that seeks its own satisfaction, and not to give one's neighbor an enhanced idea of oneself"--is the life-blood of Stendhal's Three Italian Chronicles. Gathered here are three long-out-of-print stories animated by life-and-death romances and sensational crimes. "The Cenci" and "The Abbess of Castro, " set in a brazen Renaissance, are the author's versions of two antique chronicles he discovered in Italian librarie...