title: The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents; A Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Ann Radcliffe
description: E. J. Clery is Research Fellow in English at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800 (1995). She has edited Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in Oxford World's Classics.
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  # The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romance.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ann Radcliffe
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  VOL. I.
  
  
    
  CHAP. I.
  
  
    
  CHAP. II.
  
  
    
  CHAP. III.
  
  
    
  CHAP. IV.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VI.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VII.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VIII.
  
  
    
  CHAP. IX.
  
  
    
  CHAP. X.
  
  
    
  CHAP. XI.
  
  
  VOL. II.
  
  
    
  CHAP. I.
  
  
    
  CHAP. II.
  
  
    
  CHAP. III.
  
  
    
  CHAP. IV.
  
  
    
  CHAP. V.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VI.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VII.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VIII.
  
  
    
  CHAP. IX.
  
  
    
  CHAP. X.
  
  
  VOL. III.
  
  
    
  CHAP. I.
  
  
    
  CHAP. II.
  
  
    
  CHAP. III.
  
  
    
  CHAP. IV.
  
  
    
  CHAP. V.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VI.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VII.
  
  
    
  CHAP. VIII.
  
  
    
  CHAP. IX.
  
  
    
  CHAP. X.
  
  
    
  CHAP. XI.
  
  
    
  CHAP. XI.
  
  
    
  CHAP. XII.
  
  
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  ## VOL. I.
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAP. I.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
      
  
  
  "What is this secret sin; this untold tale,
  
  
  That art cannot extract, nor penance cleanse?"
  
  