The Italian

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The Italian is a 1797 Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, renowned for its suspenseful plot, atmospheric settings, and exploration of religious and psychological themes.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf gothic novel
novel
alternativeTitle The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents
author Ann Radcliffe
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstEditionFormat three volumes
form prose fiction
genre Gothic fiction
horror fiction
romantic fiction
hasCharacter Father Schedoni
Marchesa di Vivaldi
Nicola
Zadar
surface form: Spalatro
hasInfluenced later Gothic fiction
influencedBy The Mysteries of Udolpho
knownFor atmospheric settings
exploration of psychological themes
exploration of religious themes
suspenseful plot
literaryMovement Romanticism
literarySignificance key text of late 18th-century Gothic fiction
major work of Ann Radcliffe
mainCharacter Ellena di Rosalba
Schedoni
Antonio Vivaldi
surface form: Vivaldi
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
period 18th-century literature
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1797
publisher T. Cadell Jr. and W. Davies
setting Italy
Naples
Sicily
theme Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism

guilt and conscience
love and separation
persecution and oppression
power and corruption
psychological terror
religious hypocrisy
the supernatural

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ann Radcliffe notableWork The Italian
subject surface form: Ann Radcliffe