"Vanina Vanini" | |
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Short story by Stendhal | |
Language | French |
Publication | |
Series | Chroniques italiennes (Italian Chronicles) |
Vanina Vanini is a short story published in 1829 by Stendhal (1783–1842), the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle. Set in the 1820s during the early Risorgimento, when Italy was under Austrian control, it concerns the love affair of a young Roman princess and a revolutionary carbonaro.