title: Vittorio, the Vampire
author:  Anne Rice 
description: Sixteen years old, Vittorio is the sole survivor of a bizarre and violent massacre at his father's Tuscan palazzo. Although he has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, he finds himself at the mercy of demonic, bloody nightmares, war and political intrigue. Beyond even these perils he faces being torn apart by a dangerous love.
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  New Tales of the Vampires
  
  
  Volume 2
  
  
  
  
  
  VITTORIO the VAMPIRE
  
  
  
  
  
  Anne Rice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now,
  in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing
  story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.
  
  
  Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his
  father's Mountain top castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor
  and country pleasures -
  
  
  a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy
  power.
  
  
  In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the
  most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of
  vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more
  enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds
  himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.
  
  
  Against a backdrop of the won