Vittorio, the Vampire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780375401602)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

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.

Author: Anne Rice
ISBN-10: 0375401601
ISBN-13: 9780375401602
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/08/1999
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.34h x 4.93w x 1.18d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 65048 / Vittorio, the Vampire


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/1998 pg. 60
Booklist 12/15/1998 pg. 707
Publishers Weekly 01/11/1999 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/1999 pg. 14
Library Journal 02/01/1999 pg. 122
Library Journal 11/01/1998
Library Journal 02/01/1999