Ursula, the vampire who prevented the other members of her coven from killing Vittorio, lurks behind his room's window. He soon realizes that someone is stalking him, and, worried enough, he seeks shelter at an inn. Yet his mournful spirit prevents him from taking notice of it. Vittorio, however, escapes such a dreadful ending because of a vampire's intervention.Īfter taking care of his family's burial, Vittorio gathers what riches he can and prepares himself for adventure as he flees towards Florence, away from the perilous crowd of vampires, under the sun's protecting wing.īy nightfall, Vittorio arrives at the most strange of villages, for there are no beggars at the street, no elderly, no sick or dying. The image of his siblings' severed heads with eyes staring fixedly at him strikes him permanently. In 1450, Vittorio di Raniari is a sixteen-year-old Italian nobleman, when his family is murdered by a powerful and ancient coven of vampires. In the twentieth century, from his castle in the northern part of Tuscany, Vittorio writes the tragic tale of his life.
It is one of two novels in the New Tales of the Vampires series, along with Pandora. Vittorio the Vampire (1999) is a horror novel by American writer Anne Rice.
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