Montresor warns Fortunato, who has a bad cough, of the dampness, and suggests they go back, but Fortunato insists on continuing, claiming that he 'shall not die of a cough'. Montresor offers wine (first Médoc, then De Grave) to Fortunato in order to keep him inebriated. Fortunato goes with Montresor to the wine cellars of the latter's palazzo, where they wander in the catacombs. Montresor knows Fortunato will not be able to resist demonstrating his discerning palate for wine and will insist that he taste the amontillado rather than Luchesi who, as he claims, 'cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry'. He proposes obtaining confirmation of the pipe's contents by inviting a fellow wine aficionado, Luchesi, for a private tasting. Montresor lures Fortunato into a private wine-tasting excursion by telling him he has obtained a pipe (about 130 gallons, or 492 litres) of what he believes to be a rare vintage of amontillado. Angry over numerous injuries and some unspecified insult, Montresor plots to murder his 'friend' during Carnival, while the man is drunk, dizzy, and wearing a jester's motley.

The story's narrator, Montresor, tells an unspecified person, who knows him very well, of the day he took his revenge on Fortunato (Italian for 'the fortunate one'), a fellow nobleman. As in 'The Black Cat' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', Poe conveys the story from the murderer's perspective. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive - in this case, by immurement. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook (sometimes spelled 'The Casque of Amontillado' ) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.

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