Valperga by Mary Shelley

Valperga

Mary Shelley

408 pages first pub 1823 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Valperga is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. In the novel, his armies threaten the fictional...

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