6/29/2023 0 Comments Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre![]() ![]() ![]() Unhappy girl! whom Nature organised when offended with mankind, and whom education, that might have corrected, tended only to confirm in depravity. The wildest passions predominated in her bosom to gratify them she possessed an unshrinking relentless soul, that would not startle at the darkest crime. She could inflict pain without remorse, and she could bitterly revenge the slightest attempt to inflict it on herself. His were as the even stream, calm, yet deep-her’s as the foaming cataract, rushing headlong from the rocky steep, and raging in the abyss below! She was not susceptible of a single sentiment, vibrating from a tender movement of the heart: she could not feel gratitude she could not, therefore, feel affection. The novel follows Victorias progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career of deepening. Her’s were the stormy passions of the soul, goading on to ruin and despair-Berenza’s were mild, philosophic, though proudly tenacious. This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. 'Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.'. ![]() ![]() The ambitious, the selfish, the wild, and the turbulent were her’s. Charlotte Dacre, Adriana Craciun (Editor) 3.56. “Victoria’s heart was a stranger to every gentle, noble, or superior feeling. ![]()
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