The Wistful Voyage
The ledger entry for the autumn commission read: three bolts of wool, weight forty-two pounds, dye cost twelve florins, labor unpaid. I counted the coins in my purse, the silver cold and thin against my palm, knowing they would not cover the mercury I had already bought to mask the tremors in my hands. It was the year 1482, and I was Elias Vane, master dyer of the Via dei Calzaiuoli, a man...
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