In the short story The Oval Portrait (1842) Edgar Allan Poe mentions the name and work by Ann Radcliff in the introduction. The idea of a mysterious portrait which hides (= nasconde) a secret is one of the most common topic of the horror literature, together with the themes of the double, of life and death of the dichotomy between art and life. The tale is about an injured (= ferito) narrator who refuges with his valet Pedro into an abandoned manor (= palazzo) in the
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