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The novel by Antonio Fogazzaro, first published in 1881 and here reissued in the 2004 edition, is a gothic-romantic narrative set on the shores of a Lombard lake, in which the young aristocratic Marina of Malombra becomes obsessed by reincarnation, vengeance and a morbid spiritual mission. Against this eerie setting, Fogazzaro explores the clash between sensuality and spirituality, fate and individual will, the uncanny and the everyday. With a richly atmospheric style, the novel anticipates psycho-analytical concerns and the turn-of-the-century shift from romantic passion to inner torment. Its significance lies in showing how late-nineteenth-century Italian fiction could absorb elements of the occult, the metaphysical and the provincial milieu, blending landscape, psychology and religious tension into a distinctive whole.