The Charterhouse of Parma is a river novel, reading lengthy and exciting way! The story described through the microcosm of Parma court an era and mindset of the nineteenth century, more concerned about money than conquest and daring. Following Fabrice, so light and yet so fiery, we see emerging a hero of old, which favors the honor to riches. The Charterhouse of Parma is the novel of the deliquescence of the aristocracy, which chivalrous and whole characters such as Fabrice Sanseverina and are the last representatives of a bygone world, which put the courage and daring madness frontline, away of bourgeois morality of the measure. More importantly, The Charterhouse is a magnificent novel about love, not the wise love, but on the excessive passion that beings may have for one another, beyond any rules. Sanseverina feeling a absolute love for his nephew, to the point of selling everything to him, and to antagonize any good society of Parma, while retaining the charm and flamboyant haughty, or Fabrice who, instead of losing his life without a future conquests, will retire at the Charterhouse of Parma to remain faithful to his only love, Clelia, are characters that defy the logic of today's society, and remind us that passion is a human component, and it depends only on us to wake up and abandon our rationality and our desire to compliance.