Vittoria Accoramboni

* Book: Vittoria Accoramboni* Biography* BibliographiyThis coquetry of writing is true in the case of Vittoria Accoramboni, chronologically the first text of the series, and more and more false with the following texts, where Stendhal far away from the originals. Stendhal, however, does not give an account of the exact conditions in which he came into possession of the manuscript but traces the story of an old patrician of Mantua "very rich and very stingy" consenting after negotiation to let him copy "some stories ". After an ultimate oratory precaution, calling on the reader not to look in the text for a fashionable novel, with a "sharp, quick style," opens the story of Vittoria Accoramboni, Duchess of Bracciano.