Vittorio, The Vampire

Anne Rice launched a stunning new vampire book series with Pandora. She now relates the enthralling tale of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires books.

Vittorio was raised in a world of bucolic pleasures and courtly magnificence, having received his education in Cosimo de' Medici's Florence and his chivalry training in his father's castle atop a mountain. However, this life is abruptly challenged when an evil force confronts his whole family.

Amidst all of this turmoil, Vittorio finds himself drawn to Ursula, the vampire—the most stunning of his otherworldly foes. Enchanted (and perplexed) by his love for the enigmatic Ursula, he enters the terrifying Court of the Ruby Grail in search of revenge and finds himself up against demonic foes, battle, and political intrigue.

Anne Rice crafts a passionate and sad epic of destined youthful love and lost innocence against the background of the grandeur of Renaissance Italy, both holy and profane.