Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Vittorio the Vampire, (New Tales of the Vampires book #2),by Anne Rice, first edition with selected and annotated print signed bibliography. ISBN: 0375401601 Pages: 292 Published: 1999 With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and con- fused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. Against a backdrop of the wonders- both sacred and profane- and the beauty and ferocity of Renais- sance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.