Vittorio, the Vampire
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2001-02-27
ISBN: 0345422392
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Meet Vittorio...
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book back in December, and I just finished reading it about two weeks ago. Why did it take me so long? Because, despite the fact that I am a big fan of Anne Rice, this book really offered nothing new in the ways of the New Vampire Tales!
When I first heard about Rice doing a book about a vampire from Italy, i was pumped (after all, I am Italian). After reading the first three chapters however, I quickly realized it offered nothing out of the ordinary. Quite the opposite really, if you just substitute Vittorio with a man named Lestat, you'll have the same plot fans are used to reading.
Rice goes into no depth as to how these Vampires arrived (and thrive) in Italy, and goes into very little backstory on their cult as a whole. In the same sense, there is less of a connection with vampires here, and more with angels. I would have loved to have seen how these angels interact with Vittorio (especially after having read Memnoch The Devil), again it would provide more backstory.
In the end, the book itself didn't turn out bad, it just seemed to have that lck of substance most of her novels have. You may find that the end is a bit dry and un-rewarding (but I'll let you be the judge of that).
Overall, I rate this book 3.5/5 as it does offer some excitement and parts where you'll want to keep reading and enjoy it as well!
Summary of Vittorio, the Vampire
Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, Vittorio, is truly a new beginning--a more controlled story and probably the best of her last half-dozen books.Rice has called Vittorio her vampire version of Romeo and Juliet. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire.
One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. The gorgeous Ursula spares Vittorio to make him her reluctant undying sweetheart. Ursula's ravishings of Vittorio recall the erotica Rice wrote under her own name and the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.
Vittorio flees to the creepy town of Santa Maddalana, which has made a pact to sacrifice its young to Lord Florian's vampire horde. Vittorio is bent on revenge as he invades the eerie Court of the Ruby Grail (i.e. blood), as angry with the child-sacrificing humans as he is with Florian's fang gangsters. Torn between lust, murderous rage, and vampire thirst, Vittorio is one interestingly troubled soul.
Rice urges readers to enter Vittorio's world by reading the sources she embroiders, Fra Filippo Lippi and Public Life in Renaissance Florence, and to get a feel for the scary communion Vittorio sees in the Court of the Ruby Grail by listening to All Souls' Vespers. --Tim Appelo
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 beautiful and sinister vampire Ursula—setting in motion a chilling chain of events that will mark his life for eternity. 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.
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