Gothic Visions of Florence (and Italy) in Literature and Cinema

Ancestors

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) 

The Misteries of Udolpho by Ann Raddcliffe (1794)  and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe (1797)

Romantic + Gothic Visions of Italy

The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860)

Praxiteles' Faun 

Modern and Postmodern Gothic Vision of Florence/ Italy 

Death in Springtime by Magdalen Nabb (1983)

Hannibal by Thomas Harris (1999) and by Ridley Scott (movie, 2001)

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi (2008)

The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones (2003)