Rappaccini's Daughter By Giovanni Guasconti

Rappaccini’s Daughter is a story following Giovanni Guasconti, a young man who comes to Padua to pursue a University education. His room has a depressing atmosphere, but also possesses a redeeming quality: a window that overlooks a flourishing garden. Signor Rappaccini, a famous doctor who uses these plants to concoct different medicines, is the owner and caretaker of the garden. The centerpiece of the garden is one especially flamboyant plant--a large shrub with purple blossoms.
Giovanni grows to enjoy the doctor tend to the garden. Rappaccini examines each plant with a detached sense intentness; noticing that he avoids their odors and their touch by wearing gloves, a mask, and other protective garments. One day, Giovanni notices the doctor closing in on the purple plant, with all of his protective gear, but as if finding the task of tending to the plant to be still too dangerous, he calls

Giovanni begins to visit Beatrice in the garden nearly everyday. On one occasion, Giovanni extends goes to pluck one of the blossoms from the large purple plant, but Beatrice stops him, and warns him against it for his life. The next day Giovanni notices a pain in his hand, and a purple outline of where Beatrice’s fingers had grasped his skin.
After Giovanni had grown relatively close to Beatrice Professor Baglioni comes to visit him, He notices a strange odor in Giovanni’s room. Baglioni informs Giovanni that Beatrice was an experiment of her father’s that left her poisonous. Baglioni hands over a vial to Giovanni, explaining that it is an antidote that he should give to Beatrice to cure her of her father’s curse. Giovanni kicks Baglioni out of his living quarters, but can’t help but notice that flowers wilt at his touch, and a spider dies in the path of his breath. He realizes that, just like Beatrice, he has become