The Road to Damietta
“Then we followed them at a distance.
Two doors opened into our palace—the big main door that faced the square, and just around the corner near the courtyard gate a second door, an arched break in the wall, called the Door of the Dead. My two baby brothers were carried through this door in their little white coffins covered with flowers. Also my brother Lorenzo, after he was killed on the battlefield in Perugia.
We slipped by the guard and down the long passageway, no one seeing us. Nicola scurr...ied to the kitchen to finish making her tarts and I to the scriptorium. When my father came in a few minutes later I was seated at the bench, busily at work on the initial for the twenty-third chapter of Genesis.
He glanced over my shoulder, complimented me upon the progress I had made in the art of illumination, and as he left gave me an affectionate pat on the head. Since my hair was still damp from the night air, it would have given me an anxious moment had he not been wearing leather gloves.MoreLess
Two doors opened into our palace—the big main door that faced the square, and just around the corner near the courtyard gate a second door, an arched break in the wall, called the Door of the Dead. My two baby brothers were carried through this door in their little white coffins covered with flowers. Also my brother Lorenzo, after he was killed on the battlefield in Perugia.
We slipped by the guard and down the long passageway, no one seeing us. Nicola scurr...ied to the kitchen to finish making her tarts and I to the scriptorium. When my father came in a few minutes later I was seated at the bench, busily at work on the initial for the twenty-third chapter of Genesis.
He glanced over my shoulder, complimented me upon the progress I had made in the art of illumination, and as he left gave me an affectionate pat on the head. Since my hair was still damp from the night air, it would have given me an anxious moment had he not been wearing leather gloves.MoreLess
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