Vittorio, the Vampire

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/08/1999
ISBN: 9780375401602
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.34h x 4.93w x 1.18d

Review Citations: 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

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