Tullio Hermil, a refined and selfish aristocrat, opens his story by confessing to a killing no court will ever try. He tells how, after years of neglecting his gentle wife Juliana, he sought her love again only to discover she was carrying another man’s child, and how his jealousy fixed upon the infant whose coming threatened his house.
A dark psychological novel of the Italian Decadence, later filmed by Visconti as L’innocente. Download the free EPUB.