Venice: Glass and Theriac

During layout of a book there are occasional bits where you need an extra page, or an extra column, to make things sit correctly. Here are the pieces that were added since the first draft went live. Vitrum flexile : The lost secret of unbreaking glass It is recorded that in the reign of Tiberius…

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Venice: City of Women

This week an introduction to Venetian women, as part of the ongoing series of Venetian episodes. When I originally designed the Venetian episodes, I was going to write a cumulative story like “Thirty Objects of Desire” or the Rosaline stories. As such there was a twist at the end and I’d been keeping the twist…

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