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What if everyone believes you are dead—and returning means facing the people you trust most?
Count Fabio Romani believes himself the luckiest of men. In Naples, he has wealth, a fine house, and Nina, his young and admired wife. His friend Guido Ferrari comes and goes like a brother. Then cholera grips the city, and a terrible mistake about Fabio’s death tears his settled life apart.
In Marie Corelli’s Vendetta, Fabio tells his own story of terror, betrayal, and disguise. Instead of simply reclaiming his place, he turns toward patient, carefully planned revenge. Love gives way to suspicion, and justice becomes something he means to carry out himself. But what does vengeance demand from a man who is not cruel by nature?
What you’ll discover
- A city gripped by fear Enter Naples as cholera brings hurried burials and breaks apart the security Fabio takes for granted.
- Trust at the breaking point Follow Fabio’s ties to Nina and Guido, where love and friendship become sources of pain.
- Terror told from within Fabio’s own voice draws you close to his fear in the vault and his altered life.
- The patience of revenge Watch disguise and cold planning take the place of the count’s once unquestioning trust.
- The cost of vengeance Face the question beneath Fabio’s pursuit: what happens when a wounded man makes himself the judge?
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For readers who love Victorian melodrama, dark romance and tales of revenge in the line of The Count of Monte Cristo, with betrayal, disguise and the price of vengeance at their heart.
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- A happy count in a beautiful city
- Trust placed in the wrong hands
- Plague strikes and a man is lost
- The dead man returns in disguise
- What revenge costs the one who seeks it
- How Corelli tells the tale
Who’s who
- Fabio RomaniA rich, trusting Neapolitan count who tells the story, and who is changed by a terrible ordeal into a patient seeker of vengeance.
- NinaFabio's young and admired wife, whose place at the center of his happiness makes her part of his tragedy.
- Guido FerrariFabio's close friend, welcome in his home and trusted like a brother, whose conduct becomes the heart of the quarrel.
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Vendetta
by Marie Corelli · 1886
In plague-stricken Naples, Count Fabio Romani returns in disguise to confront the people who betrayed him.
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A happy count in a beautiful city
The story opens in Naples, and the man who tells it is Fabio Romani, a count with money, a fine house and a settled place in society. He is in the prime of life, and he believes himself the luckiest of men. His marriage to Nina, who is young and admired, seems to give him everything he wants. He loves her with a trust that never asks questions.
Corelli takes care to show how complete this happiness is. Fabio does not suspect that any shadow lies across his home. He is open-handed and warm, and he thinks the world is made of people as honest as himself. That trust is the quality the whole novel will test.
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What is Vendetta by Marie Corelli about?
It follows Count Fabio Romani of Naples, a trusting man whose life is shattered during a cholera epidemic. He returns in disguise to deal with the people who wronged him, and the story weighs revenge against its cost.
When was Vendetta by Marie Corelli written?
It was published in 1886, soon after Corelli's first novel. The full title is Vendetta, or The Story of One Forgotten. It is a work of fiction and not a true story, though cholera in Naples was real.
What does the word vendetta mean?
Vendetta is an Italian word for a blood feud, a long quarrel in which a wronged person or family seeks payment in kind. In the novel it names the hero's personal campaign of revenge.
The author
Marie Corelli
1855–1924 · British novelist
Marie Corelli was an English novelist and one of the best-selling authors of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, at her height outselling most of her famous contemporaries. The Sorrows of Satan, her 1895 tale of a devil's bargain in literary London, is often called one of the world's first modern bestsellers.
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