The Mascherari: A Novel Of Venice - Plot & Excerpts
To whom it is an art to solve the finest enigmas and puzzles, let him peruse the notes I have scribed in despair and let him shame me. 12 January, 1416 On January 6, 1416 on the Feast of Epifania, in the district of Santa Croce, it came to pass that a young girl disappeared. She was last seen by the family servant in Campo San Bartolomeo. The girl’s father is a certain Signor Francesco Visconti of the San Giacomo dell’Orio Parish, a mask maker from the nation of Santa Croce. A widower since the loss of his wife, eight years ago, Francesco Visconti reported early in the night that his daughter, aged eleven, could not be found. He attested that he had last seen her in the presence of the family servant at the start of the races on the Feast of Epifania when the child and servant set out for the Rialto races. On the night of Epifania, a search party was dispatched throughout the Republic. A band of men from the San Giacomo dell’Orio Parish took to the streets with flambeaux and torches. They searched every calli.
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