Vittorio The Vampire

Vittorio The Vampire

Introduction: Vampires as we know them today twinkle in the sunshine, drive illusion autos, and are surprisingly good looking, and the lone thing somewhat scaring about them is that they are stop deading cold like a cadaver. Very few of them would seek to suck your blood any longer they ‘ve been turned into “ vegan lamias ” banqueting on carnal blood. Do n’t acquire me incorrect I enjoy those types of books ; I even fantasized that I would be lucky plenty to get a lamia like that. But Anne Rice ‘s lamias are the true lamias people have feared for centuries, lamias that will steal you or your kids off in the dark to run out you of blood, and lamias that merely come out at dark because sunshine will run their tegument off or turn them hard as rock. These are the types of lamias you will happen in this book Vittorio The Vampire. This book is portion enigma and portion thriller with its concentrating dress suits of how a teenage male child has to last on his ain after the lamias kill his whole household and leave him for dead.

Plot Function: Vittorio di Raniari is a immature Lord in 1450 Italy who by any agencies is a normal 16 twelvemonth old for his twenty-four hours and age, his male parent is n’t the most powerful Lord in Italy but they live in a immense palace in a wood of Italy. The problem starts when townsfolk from the small town outside of the castle start to vanish, Lord di Raniari attempts to shelter his household from what goes on exterior, but the concern is clearly on his face. The Lord begins to believe this might be his penalty for being unfaithful to his married woman and begeting several bogus kids with adult females from the small town, and so one dark a hooded adult male appears at the palaces gates bespeaking to see the good Lord. The Lord and his household are seated at dinner at the minute so he tells the guard to ask for the adult male in to see the Lord, the guard so comes back and tells the Lord that the adult male will non come into the visible radiation but that the Lord must come down to see him alternatively. The Lord is really angry and offended by this, but he rises from his place to see who this Signore might be, Vittorio attempts to follow him down to run into the adult male but is stopped by his male parent. Vittorio alternatively watches from a window above where he sees a richly dressed adult male, but when his male parent reaches the adult male and sees his very pail face his cries out in the name of God for this adult male to acquire away from his place, and even thrust him out the Gatess. A cackling from the dark starts and the Lord jumps into action shouting orders for his guards to secure down his place, The Lord order ‘s the chapel lit up and sacred music to be played, he awakens their Priest Fra Diamonte and sends him to the chapel with Vittorio to get down praying. The Lord tells his boy Vittorio that he is merely making this to comfort the others in their superstitious notions, but when Vittiorio goes to bring his supplication books he over hears his male parent stating his female parent to non go forth the kids entirely for a minute. The lamias end up assailing Vittorio and his household, they kill everyone except for some ground. Vittorio escapes the bloody dark and rides into another town called Santa Maddalna, where he tells the the small town people that his name is Antonio De ‘ Bardi a Kinsman of the swayer Cosimo and a going bookman in hunt of books. On his first dark in the town the lamia who killed his younger brother and sister visits him in his bed, he tries to kill her but he ends up being seduced by her discoveries out her name is Ursula and falls in love with her. A few yearss subsequently he goes to squeal to a priest about what he has seen and done over these past few yearss, the immature priest is so aghast that he goes to state the senior priest of the church who tells Vittorio that he knows these animals exist but is non sympathetic at all he tells Vittorio that he must non talk of this once more or bad things will be done to him. Vittorio disturbed returns to the hostel where he ‘s been remaining, and meets another priest and his priest boy in the dining hall, where they bring something to Vittorio ‘s attending in this down there are no people with physical or mental malformations, no sickly lame kids or aged. All of those types of people are being fed to the coven of lamias who live non far from at that place, the same lamias who killed Vittorio ‘s household. Vittorio shocked sets out to bring out this, but that really dark is captured by the lamias and taken back to The Court of The Ruby Grail where they all live. He meets the Lord of this castle Florian and the senior Godric, Ursula begs for him to be saved and made one of them but he is taken to their prison with the remainder of the worlds from Santa Maddalna and forced to imbibe the stock laced with lamia blood and prepared for the forfeit to Lucifer that the lamias enact. But Vittorio refuses the dark gift that is offered and the lamias decide non to kill him but alternatively leave him in a town, where he collapses from weariness and the toxicant of the lamias blood within him, as the small town people are seeking to assist he merely speaks bunk to them but to him two angels appear. The angels Setheus and Ramiel agree to assist him and take him to a monastery where he is cared for by monastics until he recovers his strength and purges himself of the blood. He is really easy retrieving when another angel appears to him Mastema the angel really reluctantly agrees to assist him after the others angels assure him that it must be God ‘s will for the lamias to decease. The three angels plus two more really soundless angels lead Vittorio back to the lamia ‘s den, they tell him they can non assist him but merely be at that place with him. Vittorio finds all of the tribunal of lamias asleep in their grave shrouded with a fabric of silk, he kills all of the lamias except Ursula, and he begs the angels to allow her populate so that he may convey her psyche back. The angels reluctantly agree and so go forth him with her, Vittorio waits at the pes of her bed for her to rouse and when she does state her his program to salvage her immortal psyche. She agrees but ends up flim-flaming him stating him the lone manner to purge her psyche is to take the blood from her through his oral cavity and throw it up, but in world she ends up turning him into a lamia every bit good. He is at first really angry with her and thinks about killing her but decides non to and that he will be her ageless spouse. Together they release the captives the other lamias held in the keep and take retaliation on the town’s people of Santa Maddalna for their offenses against these people. They start to kill all of the people in town get downing with the first priest, they leave merely the kids and the 2nd priest and his boy. And that is where it ends ; they still live on together forever immortal.

Fictional character Analysis: Vittorio di Raniari is a immature Italian Lord of good blood and line of descent, he is mean for his twenty-four hours and age, he likes to sit Equus caballuss, Hunt with falcons, and research the environing country around his household ‘s palace. He nevertheless has one dark secret that he keeps to himself because it frightens him, and he does n’t desire others to judge him for it, because in that twenty-four hours in age it could be seen as black magic to make so. For his whole full life, the first clip he retrieve it being as really little kid he has a incubus, the incubus being that he holds the cut off bloody caputs of his younger sister and brother Bartola, and Matteo. He does n’t cognize what to do of this incubus, so he keeps it to himself. He does n’t of all time take the incubus to earnestly he ne’er genuinely thinks it will go on until it does. Ursula the lamia ab initio attempts to nobble Bartola and Matteo but when Vittiorio valorously tries to salvage his younger siblings her comrade kills both of them by decapitating them right before Vittorio ‘s eyes. After that dark Vittorio ‘s every idea is consumed by the thought of taking retaliation on those lamias that murdered his full household, and destroyed life as he knows it. Vittorio is grief stricken that the incubus he had been holding all of his life was a prophetic warning, and that he had told no 1 about it. He blames himself for the decease of his household particularly his younger brother and sister whom he cherished the most of all, he thinks that if he had told person, told his male parent that they could hold been more prepared for this twenty-four hours when they vampires attacked their place. Vittorio is n’t much like anyone in modern twenty-four hours society, the lone individual I could believe to compare him to is John Travolta, John had a boy Jet who he and his married woman knew had a status that caused ictuss and he besides had autism. But do to their faith they truly would n’t acknowledge either of these conditions and seek much medical attending for the male child. Jet ended up deceasing from one of his ictuss when he fell and hit his caput on the bath bath one dark at the household ‘s place, he died in the weaponries of his male parent before the paramedics could get. Now I ‘m non stating that the Travolta ‘s did non love their boy merely like Vittorio loved his household but both parties could hold done something to forestall the decease at manus but did non in fright of being persecuted by their faiths. Now Vittorio and the Travolta ‘s are two really different people Vittorio ‘s enemies are fabulous and John Travolta ‘s was a really existent one, he chose to travel with his religion of Scientology instead than seek the medicine that could hold saved his boies life. Both of these people had really different yet really similar devils to cover with, but in the terminal both parties compromised their household ‘s well-being for their religion, Vittorio for this Catholic positions and John for his religion in Scientology.

Motifs & A ; Subjects: Anne Rice ‘s Vittorio The Vampire delves into the desperation of a immature Italian Lord as he witnesses his household ‘s slaying, and is left for dead himself. Death and love affair are major subjects in this book, even though she helped butcher his household Vittorio falls in love with the lamia Ursula after she seduces him with her appeals. Even though she is a lamia who could kill him at any minute she chooses non to, she is non like the others she does non like the changeless blood and Gore, she does non O.K. of the maintaining of the captives for forfeit and a beginning of blood. Vittorio subsequently finds out her beginnings towards the terminal of the book, he finds out she was a immature Lady about his age from centuries earlier sold as a kid bride to the lamia Lord Florian who made her his married woman and a lamia to populate by his side everlastingly. Vittorio pities her and vows to take her as his ain kid bride and protect her forever. When Mastema comes back and effort to kill Ursula himself Vittorio throws himself in forepart of her concealing her against his dorsum, they now live together everlastingly. Death is ever go oning around Vittorio his household dies by the lamias foremost, and so he himself with Ursula take retaliation on the town’s people of Santa Maddalna for maintaining silent of their cognition of these animals and for feeding to them their shut-ins. Vittorio through all of this remains hopeful that God will take clemencies on him and his psyche and for the psyche of Ursula, even through all of the violent death and other wickednesss they have committed. Vittorio remains faithful to God even through all that he has been through that is why the angels appear to him and assist him make God ‘s work of fring the Earth of the evil blood suckling lamias or larvae as they are frequently called by the angels. But even though God showed him favour by supplying him with the angels to finish his quest, Vittorio chooses Ursula his love over his mortal psyche. He chooses to non kill her and stay her defender forever.

Critique of Author: Anne Rice is a fantastic and widely successful writer, she wrote this and many of her other lamia themed books to entertain and astonish the multitudes. With this book she showed what many people in past centuries feared when they heard a bump in the dark, she has recreated the monsters that past centuries thought with all their might were true and living flesh and blood existent. Anne Rice has put to paper the sort of lamia that a batch of us still think, the sort that will run out your organic structure of blood in the center of the dark without so much of a moment’s notice, or the sorts that terrify small towns until they are no more, and the sort that will fry and sizzle in the sunshine and avoid it at all cost. Ms. Rice gives us a narrative that in 1450 Italy, Europe in general, even the New World would hold seen as true, to those people this would n’t hold been a fable this is what they heard in mundane life, the narrative of a immature Lord turned lamia. Anne Rice with her narrative Vittorio The Vampire has had me midway convinced that possibly one time lamias did be, otherwise where would these narratives come from in such item? Anne Rice herself may believe in lamias, possibly she thinks or knows she ‘s met one who is ancient and tells her these narratives of the yesteryear and how it was, and how the ancients knew they existed all over the Earth being called one name or another larvae, lamias, parasites, strega, leaches, devils sent from the really depths of snake pit itself. Who knows if they are truly true populating external respiration animals of the dark? Anne Rice shows that cipher may of all time genuinely know if they ‘re existent or non, but if they are they live amongst us in secretiveness ne’er demoing their true egos cognizing the persecution they will confront if they do. Anne portrays her ain love of them through this narrative and her many other novels.

Analysis and Evaluation of the Book: This book was really hard in multiple chapters to read and to remain interested in, but overall one time you started to set the pieces together it was easier to understand and bask. I would n’t urge this book to a reader who does n’t wish the challenge of holding to seek harder than usual to understand the book, for those readers I feel they would give up to easy on the book and non go on to pick it up and go on reading it. This book did do me believe though, if I were holding a dream like Vittorio did would I state? Would I seek aid? My reply in the terminal was yes of class, I do n’t believe anyone should populate fearing that every dark when they went to bed they would woolgather of keeping their beheaded siblings head in their laps. But I believe I can merely state that because I live in a clip in topographic point where I wouldn’t be seen as merely brainsick or a enchantress, and would n’t be cast out or killed I would be helped work through my job. But overall if you are up for a ambitious book that makes you believe and reconsider some of your ain beliefs, I would decidedly urge Vittorio The Vampire.

Decision: Vittorio The Vampire is a book that will take you back on a journey to 1450 Europe, a topographic point in clip where lamias were really existent to people and could snap you from your bed at any minute of the dark. Though the books linguistic communication was at first really hard to understand one time you put the pieces of this perplexing book together it was perfectly thrilling. My lone inquiry that is left in this book is why in that twenty-four hours and age could you non even swear your parents plenty to state them of the incubus you have been holding all of your life. Would they hold thought Vittorio was brainsick or a magician? Or would his parents have given him the aid he needed or at least see his dream as something they should worry about and fix for? I suppose that is a inquiry for historiographers who study households of that clip. Either manner lamias may be a really existent animal that ancient worlds and worlds of today have been talking of for centuries, possibly they even live amongst us secrecy, possibly they are n’t like the lamias Anne Rice writes about possibly they are even more like the Twilight Saga lamias who softly live amongst us peacefully.