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    Spalatro by Sheridan Le Fanu - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Spalatro by Sheridan Le Fanu - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Sheridan Le Fanu’.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    Sheridan Le Fanu

    J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was an Irish writer who helped develop the ghost story genre in the nineteenth century. Born to a family of writers, Le Fanu released his first works in 1838 in Dublin University Magazine, which he would go on to edit and publish in 1861. Some of Le Fanu’s most famous Victorian Gothic works include Carmilla, Uncle Silas, and In a Glass Darkly. His writing has inspired other great authors of horror and thriller literature such as Bram Stoker and M. R. James.

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      Spalatro by Sheridan Le Fanu - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Sheridan Le Fanu

      The Complete Works of

      SHERIDAN LE FANU

      VOLUME 20 OF 25

      Spalatro

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 2

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Spalatro’

      Sheridan Le Fanu: Parts Edition (in 25 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 320 1

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Sheridan Le Fanu: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 20 of the Delphi Classics edition of Sheridan Le Fanu in 25 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Spalatro from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Sheridan Le Fanu, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Sheridan Le Fanu or the Complete Works of Sheridan Le Fanu in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      SHERIDAN LE FANU

      IN 25 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, The Cock and Anchor

      2, The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O’brien

      3, The House by the Church-Yard

      4, Wylder’s Hand

      5, Uncle Silas

      6, Guy Deverell

      7, All in the Dark

      8, The Tenants of Malory

      9, A Lost Name

      10, Haunted Lives

      11, The Wyvern Mystery

      12, Checkmate

      13, The Rose and the Key

      14, Willing to Die

      The Shorter Fiction

      15, The Purcell Papers

      16, Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery

      17, Ghostly Tales

      18, Chronicles of Golden Friars

      19, In a Glass Darkly

      20, Spalatro

      21, A Stable for Nightmares

      22, Uncollected Tales

      The Poems

      23, The Complete Poetry

      The Criticism

      24, The Criticism

      The Memoir

      25, Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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      Spalatro

      In 1980, Le Fanu scholar W. J. McCormack recognised authoritatively Le Fanu’s authorship of the Gothic novella, ‘Spalatro From the Notes of Fra Giacomo’, which was first published anonymously in the Dublin University Magazine in March and April 1843. The novella is an account of the bandit anti-hero Spalatro’s bloody exploits, written from the point of view of a confessor in whom the eponymous bandit has confided. In typical Le Fanu fashion, the story is heavily indebted to Ann Radcliffe’s late-eighteenth-century Gothic romances. Indeed, Radcliffe’s own The Italian (1897) features a villain named Spalatro. The dreamlike scenes of macabre revelry are also strongly reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, another figure whose influence is apparent throughout Le Fanu’s writings. The main interest of the tale might perhaps be said to derive from an enigmatic female blood-drinker whom Spalatro encounters in the second part of the tale – a forerunner of Le Fanu’s most famous creation, the vampiric Carmilla. This was also the longest piece of fiction that Le Fanu had written up to that point.

      CONTENTS

      PART ONE

      PART TWO

      SPALATRO

      PART ONE

      The Spalatro, surnamed Barbone, of whom we speak, was not the illustrious bandit of Napoleon’s early time, who assumed, or acquired, that name, but the celebrated original, who first bore it two centuries since. This man was nobly born, lost his parents early, squandered his fortune, and then took to the road professionally. He speedily became one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, of Italian robbers of any age. His followers were so numerous, so well armed, and so hardy, that none of the states cared unnecessarily to meddle with him, but contented themselves with acting to the best of their ability upon the defensive; it is even said that Venice allowed this desperado a secret stipend upon the condition that her territories should be exempted from his depredations; however this may be, it is certain that he made himself so universally dreaded, that but for his singular rashness, he might have lived in as much security, and died in as much splendour, as ever did an absolute prince. He was, however, foolish enough to visit the city of St. Mark during the carnival, and happening to quarrel with a party of young fellows, he killed three of them, but being overpowered by numbers, was taken, and after a protracted examination before the state inquisition, was executed between the pillars in the piazetta, beside the Doge’s palace.

      In the hall of the grand council, in the ducal palace, whither, upon the suppression of the republic, the famous library of St. Mark was transferred, the reader, should he happen to visit it, will find at the right of the great entrance, a series of huge tomes, in which are bound up a heterogenous mass of manuscripts of all kinds — poems, chronicles, and church music. Among them he will discover a voluminous collection, in the hand-writing of one who calls himself Fra Giacomo, the humblest of the servants of God, and of the republic, and messenger of peace to the victims of justice. He appears for many years to have acted as confessor to the state prisoners of Venice, and jotted down, in his own hand, abundant notes of the secrets of which he thus became possessed.

      On this day, writes brother Giacomo, I visited, for the fourth time, the renowned and unhappy Spalatro. He is the boldest criminal I ever spoke with; there is not in him the fear of death or the fear of God. He will neither pray, nor confess, nor have any of the rites of the church. Yesterday as I talked with him in the prison, he fell suddenly upon the floor in a fit of epilepsy,

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