Rappaccinis Daughter
Rappaccinis Daughter Story Summary
The story rappaccinis daughter takes place in Padua in northern Italy at the University of Padua. A medical student there named Giovanna Guasctonti moves into a small apartment in an old mansion that once belonged to a family of nobles. One of the former family members was thought to be the lost soul Dante a character in the define comedy Dantes Inferno.
Giovanni’s apartment has a balcony view over this extravagant large garden tended by the Great physician Giacomo Rappaccini. Rappaccini and his daughter take care of the garden. One day Giovanna is looking into the garden and sees this stunning female Beatrice (the guy’s daughter) and is mesmerized by her. She is the most beautiful site his eyes have ever laid upon.
One day while looking into the garden he sees Mr. rappaccini tending these purple blossoms and while doing so he has to use a mask and gloves so he doesn’t inhale the plants “breathe” he then calls his daughter Beatrice to come here and she is told she is to tend to this certain shrub. Beatrice calls the plant her sister and is able to breathe in the plant and it has no effect on her. She calls this the breathe of live
While at the school the next day Giovanni meets and has lunch with a great professor at the school names dr. pietro baglioni. He is highly respected in the study of medicine, and rappicini is curios if he knows the man who tends the garden named rappaccini. He tells him that he does indeed know him and compliments him on his skills. Baglioni says there is only physician in all of Italy who can rival his skills and he’s talking about himself. He however states that he has certain grave objections to rappicinis professional character because he says he is coldly scientific. He says rappaccini uses his patients as objects rather than human beings for his experiments. He even would jeopardize this own life to gain knowledge for his medical books. He then tells Giovanni that rappaccini makes deadly
The story rappaccinis daughter takes place in Padua in northern Italy at the University of Padua. A medical student there named Giovanna Guasctonti moves into a small apartment in an old mansion that once belonged to a family of nobles. One of the former family members was thought to be the lost soul Dante a character in the define comedy Dantes Inferno.
Giovanni’s apartment has a balcony view over this extravagant large garden tended by the Great physician Giacomo Rappaccini. Rappaccini and his daughter take care of the garden. One day Giovanna is looking into the garden and sees this stunning female Beatrice (the guy’s daughter) and is mesmerized by her. She is the most beautiful site his eyes have ever laid upon.
One day while looking into the garden he sees Mr. rappaccini tending these purple blossoms and while doing so he has to use a mask and gloves so he doesn’t inhale the plants “breathe” he then calls his daughter Beatrice to come here and she is told she is to tend to this certain shrub. Beatrice calls the plant her sister and is able to breathe in the plant and it has no effect on her. She calls this the breathe of live
While at the school the next day Giovanni meets and has lunch with a great professor at the school names dr. pietro baglioni. He is highly respected in the study of medicine, and rappicini is curios if he knows the man who tends the garden named rappaccini. He tells him that he does indeed know him and compliments him on his skills. Baglioni says there is only physician in all of Italy who can rival his skills and he’s talking about himself. He however states that he has certain grave objections to rappicinis professional character because he says he is coldly scientific. He says rappaccini uses his patients as objects rather than human beings for his experiments. He even would jeopardize this own life to gain knowledge for his medical books. He then tells Giovanni that rappaccini makes deadly