![]() ![]() The story is set in Padua, Italy, in a distant and unspecified past, possibly in the sixteenth century, after the Paduan Botanical Garden had been founded. The traditional story of a poisonous maiden has been traced back to India, and Hawthorne's version has been adopted in contemporary works. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in Padua who grows a garden of poisonous plants. " Rappaccini's Daughter" is a Gothic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in New York, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses from an Old Manse. Reprinted in Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846 The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in 1844. For the opera based on the short story, see Rappaccini's Daughter (opera). ![]()
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