The Golden Downtown

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Venice in the sixteenth century did not smell of romance, but of brine, rotting wood, and the sharp, metallic tang of iron that clung to the damp stones of the working canals, where the city’s true industry churned in the shadows beneath the gilded facades of the nobility. Pietro Aiello, a man of thirty years whose hands were mapped with the calluses of a temple accountant and a soldier’s...

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