A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599. All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelleys The Cenci represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?

A. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority

B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft

C. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

D. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country

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