Stories Set in Pisa

One tilted bell tower made Pisa immortal, which is slightly unfair to its maritime republic past and its university. Writers keep coming back to it anyway. Ethel Voynich plotted Risorgimento Pisa in The Gadfly; Ezra Pound wrote The Pisan Cantos in an Army prison camp outside the city. Open Pisa on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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5 famous stories set in Pisa

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Browse 2 books, 2 movies and 1 game set in Pisa.

Don Juan

Warner Bros. Pictures

movie

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose it was that women gave you three things - life disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife Donna Isobel and Donna…

Setting: Rome, Italy; Pisa, ItalyTime Period: Renaissance

Castlevania: Bloodlines

game

Time refuses to forget the Belmont family's horrifying, bloody destiny. And in 1917 two of its descendants are summoned by fate into epic battle. Their enemy? The most evil incarnation of Castlevania legacy to ever rise…

Setting: London, England, UK; Athens, Greece; Florence, Italy; Pisa, Italy; Würzburg, Germany; Castlevania, Transylvania, RomaniaTime Period: 1917

Rowing with the Wind

movie

In the summer of 1816 Percy Shelley his mistress Mary and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story and Mary begins her novel Frankenstein. She imagines the…

Setting: Lake Geneva, Switzerland; Pisa, ItalyTime Period: 1816

The Gadfly

by Ethel Lilian Voynich

book

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or…

Setting: ['Pisa (Italy)', 'Livorno (Italy)', 'Florence (Italy)', 'Brisighella (Italy)']Time Period: UNKNOWN

The Pisan Cantos

by Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (Editor)

book

Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos was written in 1945, while the poet was being held in an American military detention center near Pisa, Italy, as a result of his pro-Fascist wartime broadcasts to America on Radio Rome.…

Setting: Pisa, ItalyTime Period: 1945

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