...way. Pagina:! di 93 del capitolo Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto Preface to the first edition The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...

...printed in black letter, at Naples, in 1529, and that the copy from which the translation had been made was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England. The egotism of this preface, and the promise which it contained, that if the work were successful the...

...Castle of Otranto," professedly as a translation by one William. Marshall from an old Italian manuscript found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England and printed in Naples in the black letter in the year 1529. Walpole had shortly before published his...