The first complete Russian translation of the novel by the German romantic writer Ludwig Thicke (1773-1853) Vittoria Akkorombona (1840) reveals the late Thicke, still unknown in Russia, who created many novels and short stories on historical topics. In the center of the novel are the events of Italian history at the end of the 16th century. The fate of the poetess Vittoria Accorombona, her life and tragic death are shown by the author against the background of the panorama of Italian reality, the anarchy that reigned in the dwarf Italian states. Participants in the events are both Pope Sixtus V, the deeply unhappy great poet Torquato Tasso, and modest townspeople and hired killers