ITALIAN R5B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Otranto, Gothic Fiction, Ann Radcliffe
20 Nov 2018
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The stranger is very loosely based on the poet lord byron (a british romantic poet who lived in italy and notorious for having love affairs with young women who were married to older men). Dense references to classical themes produces confusion. This is an early tale by poe, and very different from his other works. The narrator is in a gondola, going down a canal, hears a scream, sees the marchesa. Aphrodite standing, looking beautiful and servants looking for her child who fell in the water. The servants begin to give up, but a cloaked man dived into the canal and re-emerged with the child. He hands the child to a servant, and the marchesa tells him to meet her an hour after dawn. Stranger seems to be looking for a gondola, so the narrator offered his and dropped him off at the stranger"s apartment. The stranger tells the narrator to meet him early the next morning at his apartment.
