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PROLOGUE
1 A ll week the Maestro indulged himself in alchemical exp
2 T he Maestro’s infirmity excuses him from excessive form
3 D innertime was over and a dozen men and boys of the Mar
4 I am not the greatest swordsman in the world. I rank th
5 A s we disembarked, I signed Bruno, Go quick—tell—Mama—l
6 A nd that, I thought, was that. The Sanudo affair was cl
7 L ife was strained around Ca’ Barbolano for the next few
8 T he man who rose from the secretaries’ table to lead us
9 V asco took his absurd mission seriously and proceeded t
10 I awoke at dawn as always. Remembering the work I had
11 I laid Danese’s admirable, expensive leather portmante
12 G et him to tell you the one about the sea monster,” I
13 S o we returned to the palace and the same chamber we h
14 H aving seen the Maestro securely loaded on Bruno’s gre
15 T he last relict logs collapsed in heaps of ash. Jumpin
16 E nough rain had blown in to soak the loggia floor, so
17 W hen Luigi saw the body, he rushed upstairs as fast as
18 S ier Ottone Gritti is a short
19 I went ahead to get the door, but it was opened before
20 D own at the watergate, Ottone Gritti was still very mu
21 H ad I needed to visit the group gathered around the we
22 G iorgio rowed us to the end of Rio di San Barnaba and
23 Z uanbattista ushered in his womenfolk. Madonna Eva was
24 W e trooped downstairs, Grazia and I, with our macabre
25 G irolamo’s room I could have predicted. The furniture
26 A unt Fortunata was having hysterics in her bedroom. Th
27 G iorgio was sitting in the government boat, trading go
28 I t was long past our usual noon dinnertime, but nothin
29 N othing serious happened until after curfew. I went ba
30 A s the eastern sky began to brighten on a chilly Sunda
31 G iorgio won gondola races in his youth and that mornin
32 O ut in the salone, I detected mouth-watering odors fro
33 F orce of habit sent me to open the door and nobody mov
34 F ood was eaten with enjoyment, wine drunk with happy r
35 T hey could have arrested me for spying on their meetin
PROLOGUE
1 A ll week the Maestro indulged himself in alchemical exp
2 T he Maestro’s infirmity excuses him from excessive form
3 D innertime was over and a dozen men and boys of the Mar
4 I am not the greatest swordsman in the world. I rank th
5 A s we disembarked, I signed Bruno, Go quick—tell—Mama—l
6 A nd that, I thought, was that. The Sanudo affair was cl
7 L ife was strained around Ca’ Barbolano for the next few
8 T he man who rose from the secretaries’ table to lead us
9 V asco took his absurd mission seriously and proceeded t
10 I awoke at dawn as always. Remembering the work I had
11 I laid Danese’s admirable, expensive leather portmante
12 G et him to tell you the one about the sea monster,” I
13 S o we returned to the palace and the same chamber we h
14 H aving seen the Maestro securely loaded on Bruno’s gre
15 T he last relict logs collapsed in heaps of ash. Jumpin
16 E nough rain had blown in to soak the loggia floor, so
17 W hen Luigi saw the body, he rushed upstairs as fast as
18 S ier Ottone Gritti is a short
19 I went ahead to get the door, but it was opened before
20 D own at the watergate, Ottone Gritti was still very mu
21 H ad I needed to visit the group gathered around the we
22 G iorgio rowed us to the end of Rio di San Barnaba and
23 Z uanbattista ushered in his womenfolk. Madonna Eva was
24 W e trooped downstairs, Grazia and I, with our macabre
25 G irolamo’s room I could have predicted. The furniture
26 A unt Fortunata was having hysterics in her bedroom. Th
27 G iorgio was sitting in the government boat, trading go
28 I t was long past our usual noon dinnertime, but nothin
29 N othing serious happened until after curfew. I went ba
30 A s the eastern sky began to brighten on a chilly Sunda
31 G iorgio won gondola races in his youth and that mornin
32 O ut in the salone, I detected mouth-watering odors fro
33 F orce of habit sent me to open the door and nobody mov
34 F ood was eaten with enjoyment, wine drunk with happy r
35 T hey could have arrested me for spying on their meetin
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