The Charterhouse of Parma is a novel by Stendhal published in 1839. Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide and Henry James. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the dissolute youth of Alessandro Farnese.The novel has been adapted for opera, film and television.

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 – 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels The Red and the Black, 1830, and The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism