VALPERGA:
Reading edition
OR, THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
CASTRUCCIO,
PRINCE OF LUCCA.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "FRANKENSTEIN."
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE.
1823.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Conference of Castruccio and Galeazzo Visconti—of Castruccio and the Bishop of Ferrara.
CHAPTER II
Parentage of Beatrice.—She is arrested by the Inquisition.
CHAPTER III
Judgement of God.—Revolution of Ferrara.
CHAPTER IV
Fall of Beatrice.
CHAPTER V
Visit to Pepi at Cremona.
CHAPTER VI
Galeazzo Visconti at Florence.—Castruccio and Euthanasia meet at Valperga: Doubts and Reserve.
CHAPTER VII
Castruccio exiles three hundred Families from Lucca—Visits at Valperga—His Character further developed.
CHAPTER VIII
Beatrice, disguised as a Pilgrim, visits Valperga.—Castruccio relates her Story.
CHAPTER IX
Castruccio plots the Assassination of Robert King of Naples.—Made Prince of Lucca.—Declares War against Florence.—Plot for a Revolution in Lucca defeated.—Castruccio summons Valperga.
CHAPTER IX
Castruccio reconnoitres for a Surprise.—Embassy of Tripalda.
CHAPTER XI
Valperga taken.
CHAPTER XI
Euthanasia at Lucca.