Anne Rice - Vittorio

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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

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Beauty's Punishment

Beauty's Release

ALFRED A. KNOPF

NEW YORK • TORONTO

1999

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC., AND

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

Florence, Italy.

Italy.

By anyone's standards, I am a remarkable vampire,

most powerful, having lived five hundred years from

the great days of Cosimo de' Medici, and even the

angels will attest to my powers, if you

can get them to speak to you. Be cautious on that

point.

I have, however, nothing whatsoever to do with the

"Coven of the Articulate, " that band of strange

romantic vampires in and from the Southern New World

city of New Orleans who have regaled you already with

so many chronicles and tales.

I know nothing of those heroes of macabre fact

or New Orleans. For now, I cannot know or care about

it.

As I spend my tranquil nights, here, among the

overgrown stones of the place where I was so happy as

a child, our walls now broken and misshapen among the

thorny blackberry vines and fragrant smothering

forests of oak and chestnut trees, I am compelled to

record what befell me, for it seems that I may have

suffered a fate very unlike that of any other vampire.

I do not always hang about this place.

On the contrary, I spend most of my time in that

city which for me is the queen of all cities—

Florence—which I loved from the very first moment I

And it was under Cosimo's roof that I saw, as a

mortal boy of destiny and promise—yes, I myself saw—

the great guests of the Council of Trent who had come

from far Byzantium to heal the breach between the

Eastern and Western church: Pope Eugenius IV of Rome,

the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Emperor of the

East himself, John VIII Paleologus. These great men I

saw enter the city in a terrible storm of bitter rain,

but nevertheless with indescribable glory, and these

men I saw eat from Cosimo's table.

Enough, you might say. I agree with you. This is no

history of the Medici. But let me only say that anyone

who tells you that they were scoundrels, these great

men, is a perfect idiot. It was the descendants of

Cosimo who took care of Leonardo da Vinci,

Michelangelo and artists without count. And it was all

I shall tell my tale naturally and effectively,

wallowing in words, for I love them. And, being an

immortal, I have devoured over four centuries of

English, from the plays of Christopher Marlowe and Ben

Jonson to the abrupt and harshly evocative words of a

Sylvester Stallone movie.

You'll find me flexible, daring, and now and then a

shock. But what can I do but draw upon the fullest

descriptive power I can command, and mark that English

now is no more the language of one land, or even two

or three or four, but has become the language of all

the modern world from the backwoods of Tennessee to

the most remote Celtic isles and down under to the

teeming cities of Australia and New Zealand.

I am Renaissance-born. Therefore I delve in all,

and blend without prejudice, and that some higher good

pertains to what I do, I cannot doubt.

As for my native Italian, hear it softly when you

say my name, Vittorio, and breathe it like perfume

from the other names which are sprinkled throughout

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