Amore Dure - Passages From the Diary of Spiridion Trepka

“Amore Dure - Passages From the Diary of Spiridion Trepka” is an 1890 novel by Vernon Lee. Presented as the excerpts from the diary of one Spiridion Trepka, the novel recounts his journey to Urbanica in order to research renaissance Italy. However, a meeting with mysterious femme fatale Medea da Carpi threatens to lead him down a macabre path. A classic ghost story by a master of the genre not to ...