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Language Italian Media type Print Country Italy | 3.4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1881 Originally published 1881 Genre Gothic fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Characters Marina di Malombra, Corrado Silla, Nepo Salvador Adaptations Malombra (1942), Malombra (1917) Similar Daniele Cortis, Fosca, I Malavoglia, Mastro‑don Gesualdo, The child of pleasure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malombra is an 1881 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Fogazzaro. It is a Gothic story set close to Lake Como in the mid-Nineteenth century. It was Fogazzaro's debut novel.
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Synopsis
A young woman living in a castle, comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.
Adaptations
The novel was turned into films on two occasions: a 1917 silent film directed by Carmine Gallone and a 1942 film directed by Mario Soldati. In 1974 the story was adapted as a miniseries for Italian television.
References
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