The Codex of Stars

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I. The plague came to Florence in the spring of 1348, and with it came the stars. Brother Anselmo first noticed them on a night in May, when the air was thick with the smell of burning herbs and dying men. He had climbed to the small observatory atop the San Marco monastery—a tower no taller than a church bell, equipped with nothing more than a brass astrolabe and a lens borrowed from a...

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