Publisher's Synopsis
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Manfred, Otranto parent, is awaiting the marriage between his son Conrad and Princess Isabella, daughter of Frederic the Marquis of Vincenza.There are rumors of Manfred's impatience for the wedding, and people believe the marriage is related to the word. Some ancient predictions: "Otranto's castles and nobles should have passed from the current family whenever their true owners grew too. To live in. "However, on the day of his wedding, Conrad was clad in a giant helmet that mysteriously fell from the sky. Realizing that his only heir was dead and was unable to create an additional son with his own wife, Hippolyta Manfred decided to continue his marriage with his son's fiancé Isabella.
Intending to divorce or kill Hippolyta, Manfred approached Isabela alone, announcing his intention to create several sons with her. Despite her gruesome protests, he arrested her, intent on rape her. But Isabella escapes while Manfred is distracted by the swaying hair of a giant helmet, then by his grandfather's moving image, then by a servant's report of With appearance Of a giant leg in armor With Theodore's help, the farmer Isabella escapes the castle through a secret underground passageway to the sanctuary at St Nicholas Church, where she is under your protection. Father Jerome
