The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova

A Female protagonist! READING UP THROUGH PART 2 before Tuesday classtime!

Settings are vast, but center at Oxford University and multi-century backdrops.
Tuscany
Florence
Montepulciano
Milan
Venice
Amsterdam
Zagrag/Zagreb
Ragusa
Lake Snagor/Monastery in Bucharest?
Multiple Narrators, either as flashbacks, letters, and events intertwining the flashbacks.
Main Characters:
Father, Paul, Paolo, a Dutch Historian/researcher
Daughter, not a name yet
Rossi, colleague of Paul
Deceased mother of daughter, as of yet unnamed, but is this the young lady Paul spoke with in the library who was reading about Drakula as well? Hmm...

Mrs. Clay, and a Mrs.? perhaps a widow to some man who has fallen upon the same tragic end?
Mossimo and Guiliana, eccentric couple, or as Professor would say "silver foot in mouth" type man.
Vlad Tepes, the Impaler
Hedges, maimed in the neck and then died after a stint of mental illness.

External and Internal modes of episodic narratives

Remember these modes of persuasion, Amy:
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
for how emotions and logic and authority are enlisted to keep the reader invested in the story.
Many relations to actual places and historical references.

Plus, who is this "Hedges" tantamount to Swift, Pope, and Addison! Hm, care to take a gander, Amy? Oxford Educated historian writer....who would be at home in a coffee house with the above mentioned author if it wasn't for his shy nature?

Plus, now the mysterious book has smelled like dead flesh...maybe I will wait a while for dinner, ah, the power of suggestion.