Venezia in nero (Città in nero Vol. 1) (Italian Edition) by Cristiano Tanduo

Author:Cristiano Tanduo [Tanduo, Cristiano]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Amazon: B07DW9GRSQ
Published: 2018-06-18T22:00:00+00:00

A pregnant silence falls onto the Piazza.

A few hundred yards away, another drama is unfolding. A relative of Count Alvise Guoro’s has just received Lorenzo Barbo’s confession: blinded by jealousy at the discovery of a clandestine affair between Guoro and Lady Barbo, it was he who committed the crime.

A servant is immediately sent to St Mark’s Square with the order to stop the execution immediately.

The boy runs like the wind among the city’s squares and calli, weaving his way through the streets and alleyways. Every street is crowded. Merchants, errand boys, ladies and squires slow him down, and he is forced to take the backstreets to avoid the rabble. It is as if the city was determined to make Barbo’s deranged plot succeed.

As soon as he is within sight of the Piazza he starts waving frantically and shouting, making his way through the excited crowd of commoners and mercenaries who see the event as an opportunity to sell some of their knick-knacks. Struggling, he manages to get within a few yards of the scaffold.

At that point, his voice is echoing through the vast, open space like a roar.

“Halt the execution. The baker’s boy is innocent: he is the victim of a plot!”

It is too late. The crowd is now wild, gripped by excitement and increasingly rowdy. The blade, dripping with young blood, has struck its final blow and Piero Fasiol’s severed head rolls into a basket.

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