Vittorio, the Vampire
by Anne Rice
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Author: Anne RiceEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-27
ISBN: 0345422392
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Hey not bad for a new vampire
Summary: 3 Stars
The Vampire Vittorio wasn't half bad but not the best book I read written by Anne Rice. I'm pretty sure she was inspired by an italian whom she met at Florence to write such a novel, and I'm really sure she wrote the book elegantly as possible but I just didn't find myself fanatical about the story. However the bright side of the story is it's about a new vampire who was basically left out unseen by others. I will list the positives and negat ives
Positives:
1) Vittorio's mortal life is pretty interesting: He lives in a rich family, very well educated, strong and manly for a 16 year old, and visited florence. His rennaisance background is described perfectly and decently.
2) Most of the book talks about how Vittorio sought to take revenge on the vampires who killed his family. Typical but yet popular to read about. Vengence and Love make such a book romantic.
3) erotic scene between Ursula and Vitorrio is sensual, for men out there I hope you enjoy whats there.
4) Few interesting Historical reference of the book made the book more real. I praise Anne's work for always adding in historical components and events in the book. I personally love history, reading some of the historical stories of war of florence in Vittorio really caught my attetion. I loved how the author made the book seem real by using historical sources.
5) Everything that was described in the book seem very accurate, the Author doesn't just make up stuff and adds it in. She uses her knowledge of history, tour, geography, and other things by adding them in the book to make it real.She always does this in many of her books, but after reading Vittorio it made me realize how historical knowledge can be benifitial to future novelist like Anne Rice.
Negatives:
1) Most of the book talks about Vitorrio's mortal life, the title of the book: Vittorio the Vampire may imply to many audince that it's a story about Vittorio's vamparic life which turns out to be the exact opposite. The story talks more about how he became a vampire not about his adventure when he was a vampire. He lived 500 years after he became a vampire, so it would be reasonable to know more about what he did in his 500 years. Who knows there might have been tons of tales about it.
2) The book is too short, it's the shortest one written by Anne Rice. There are almost 300 pages, but it doesn't surpass any other books. After reading this book, I thought the book would be decently long if Vittorio's vampire life-story was brought up.
3) Relationship with Vittorio and Ursula is very erotic, but then after those 500 years what happened that could have ripped their relationship apart? How did they live together for 500 years? Did they ever argue like Marius and Pandora? and the fact that they lived for 500 years seems unbelivable and some-what unrealistic. (I do have to agree that it's very romantic but hard to actually accept as something that would happen to an actual vampire)
4) The Mass scene was very boring, a lot of things were described here and there. I only skipped that one page out of the whole book. (might have to read it again)
5) I thought the angels being involved in Vittorio life wasn't really...great. It is true that without them Vittorio wouldn't have his revenge, but It may interest some of you who have religious zeal. This is really a minor criticism.
I was thinking about 4-5 stars for this book by the time I finish a few chapters. But when I read on I kind of lost my taste. I did however enjoy the story, don't get me wrong. I personally think I found few huge holes in the book but despite that the book is decent.
Summary of Vittorio, the Vampire
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.
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
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