Valperga by Mary Shelley
The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Set in early 14th-century Italy, the novel follows the resolute Countess Euthanasia as she strives to preserve the independence, peaceful governance, and republican ideals of her small principality against the ambitious condottiero Castruccio Castracani. Torn between personal feeling and political conviction, she refuses to compromise her principles as Castruccio’s drive for power brings conquest, betrayal, and increasing tyranny; their fraught relationship becomes a lens for themes of liberty versus ambition, the moral costs of rule, and the tragic consequences when private loyalties collide with public aims.
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- 1823
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