![]() Faced with the extinction of his line, Manfred vows to divorce his wife and marry the terrified Isabella himself. The novel begins with the death of Manfred’s son, Conrad, who is crushed to death by an enormous helmet on the morning of his wedding to the beautiful princess Isabella. It tells the story of Manfred, the prince of Otranto, who is keen to secure the castle for his descendants in the face of a mysterious curse. ![]() Its first edition, published in 1764, claimed to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north of England’. ![]() The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, is generally viewed as the first Gothic novel. ![]()
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