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The Castle of Otranto is the first supernatural English novel and is a singularly influential work of Gothic fiction. [1] It blends elements of realist fiction with the supernatural and fantastical, establishing many of the plot devices and character types that would become typical of the Gothic novel: secret passages, clanging trapdoors ...
Otranto is the setting of Horace Walpole's book The Castle of Otranto, which is generally held to be the first Gothic novel. Walpole had chosen the town from a map of the Kingdom of Naples because the name was "well-sounding"; he was not aware that Otranto had a castle until 1786, some twenty-two years after the novel was first published under ...
His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. [2] They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. [3] In 2017, a volume of Walpole's selected letters was published. [4]
Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a ...
Castle of Otranto (Czech: Otrantský zámek) is a 1977 Czechoslovak animated short film by Jan Švankmajer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based on Horace Walpole 's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto . [ 3 ] The film takes the form of a pseudo-documentary live-action story, [ 4 ] with an abridged adaptation of the story itself presented in cut-out animation ...
Francesco Zurolo; Francesco Zurolo: Leadership; Captain: Otranto garrison: Related articles; History: Francesco Zurolo (or Zurlo) was an Italian feudal lord, baron and Italian leader.He descended from one of the most important Neapolitan families from which he owned various lands/feuds in the Kingdom of Naples, the Zurolo (or Zurlo).
The house is described by Walpole as "the scene that inspired, the author of The Castle of Otranto", though Michael Snodin has observed: "it is an interesting comment on 18th-century sensibility that the melancholy interiors of The Castle of Otranto were suggested by the light, elegant, even whimsical rooms at Strawberry Hill". [4]
The Martyrs of Otranto, also known as Saints Antonio Primaldo and his Companions (Italian: I Santi Antonio Primaldo e compagni martiri), were 813 inhabitants of Otranto, Salento, Apulia, in southern Italy, who were killed on 14 August 1480 after the city had fallen to an Ottoman force under Gedik Ahmed Pasha.