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Subject: MSR Rappaccini's Daughter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uploaded By: HOST Comp Joots
Date: 10/25/2002
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Keywords: Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Short Story
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago,
from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the
University of Padua. Giovanni, who had but a scanty supply of
gold ducats in his pocket, took lodgings in a high and gloomy
chamber of an old edifice which looked not unworthy to have been
the palace of a Paduan noble, and which, in fact, exhibited over its
entrance the armorial bearings of a family long since extinct. The
young stranger, who was not unstudied in the great poem of his
country, recollected that one of the ancestors of this family, and
perhaps an occupant of this very mansion, had been pictured by
Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno. These
reminiscences and associations, together with the tendency to
heartbreak natural to a young man for the first time out of his
native sphere, caused Giovanni to sigh heavily as he looked around
the desolate and ill-furnished apartment.
"Holy Virgin, signor!" cried old Dame Lisabetta, who, won by the
youth's remarkable beauty of person, was kindly endeavoring to
give the chamber a habitable air, "what a sigh was that to come out
of a young man's heart! Do you find this old mansion gloomy? For
the love of Heaven, then, put your head out of the window, and
you will see as bright sunshine as you have left in Naples."