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Valperga: Or, The Life and Adventure of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19981001
Author:Anonymous
Valperga: Or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, edited by Stuart Curran.
Mary Shelley's second novel, Valperga has not been reprinted since its publication in 1823. The title refers to the castle of the heroine of the story, Euthanasia, whose love for and eventual conflict with the soldier of fortune Castruccio is set against a backdrop of 14th-century Tuscany. Stuart Curran tries very hard to establish the relevance of Valperga to the political preoccupations of the 1990's, declaring enrapturedly in the introduction that the ...
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