Read I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 2 in Italianwith every sentence explained

I misteri del castello d'Udolfo, vol. 2 by Ann Radcliffe was first published in 1794. In Passage you read the full text in Italian, marked intermediate and filed under horror, mystery and crime and romance.

A wedding called off overnight. A journey into Italy. A castle waiting in the mountains.

This second volume opens just as Emily St. Aubert's marriage to Valancourt seems settled at last. Then her vain, ambitious aunt, Madame Cheron, secretly marries the dark and silent Signor Montoni, and everything changes. Montoni forbids the match, and Emily must say goodbye to the man she loves and follow her new uncle across the Alps.

In Venice, among gondolas, masked revellers and gaming tables, Count Morano courts Emily with alarming persistence, while Montoni seems determined to dispose of her hand for his own gain. Then the household is hurried away to Udolpho, Montoni's lonely fortress deep in the Apennines, where the wind moans through empty corridors and the servants whisper about the castle's vanished former mistress.

Ann Radcliffe's 1794 bestseller is the classic Gothic novel, the very book Catherine Morland devours in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. This is the Italian translation.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Italian feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.