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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. A Main Selection of the Literary Guild ALSO BY ANNE RICE Interview with the Vampire The Feast of All Saints Cry to Heaven The Vampire Lestat The Queen of the Damned The Mummy The Witching Hour The Tale of the Body Thief Lasher Taltos Memnoch the Devil Servant of the Bones Violin Pandora The Vampire Armand Under the name Anne Rampling Exit to Eden Belinda Under the name A. N. Roquelaure The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Beauty’s Punishment Beauty’s Release VITTORIO, THE VAMPIRE VITTORIO, THE VAMPIRE NEW TALES OF THE VAMPIRES ANNE RICE ALFRED A. KNOPF NEW YORK • TORONTO 1999 THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC., AND ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA Copyright (c) 1999 by Anne O’Brien Rice All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and distributed by Random House, Inc., New York-Published simultaneously in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, and distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.randomhouse.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rice, Anne, [date] Vittorio, the vampire / by Anne Rice. - 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-375-40160-1 Includes bibliographical references (p.). 1. Title. PS3568.I265V58 1999 813’.54-dc2i 98-14209 CIP Canadian Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rice, Anne, [date] Vittorio, the vampire : new tales of the vampires ISBN 0-676-97186-5 I. Tide. PS3568.I22V361999 8i3’.54 C98-9324I2-5 A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The Franklin Library. A limited signed edition of this book has been published by B. E. Trice Publishing, New Orleans. Manufactured in the United States of America First Trade Edition FRONTISPIECE: Farewell of Saint John the Baptist from His Parents by Fra Filippo Lippi. Duomo, Prato, Italy. Scala/Art Resource, New York DEDICATION BY ANNE RICE This novel is dedicated to Stan, Christopher, Michele and Howard; to Rosario and Patrice; to Pamela and Elaine; and to Niccolo. This novel is dedicated by Vittorio to the people of Florence, Italy. 1 WHO I AM, WHY I WRITE,

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