At age 14, Castruccio travels to Florence. Here he sees the collapse of the bridge of Carraia and compares it to Dante's hell. While there he also meets up with Euthanasia again, and rekindles the relationship the had as children. (Page 65)
"The native town of the Lady Dianora" (62). Once exiled, Castruccio and his family make their way to Ancona, Castrucio's mother's hometown. It is here that Castrucio's mother dies in the same year of their banishment.
Castruccio and his family are exiled when he is eleven years old. His father tells them "we have been driven from the Piazza of the Podestà" (59). This is likely a reference to the hall of justice, erected in 1370 and picture below.
This it the map where Abby and I plan to record the various travels of Castruccio.
Britain had suffered an economic depression that lasted into what would be known as the "hungry fourties". During this time, it was a period of strikes, widespread unemployment, poor harvests, and depressed trade. This was due to crop failures and thus this was resulted in the deaths of many who starved. This was where the new type of genre was created for literature: the social problem novel. This was how Gaskell was able to publish Mary Barton, in relation to this developing trend in fiction. Indeed we can see this throughout the novel.
A timeline of events related to Mary Prince and the relevance of her story to the Gothic tradition.
