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　As time passed he would school me in the history of Venice, as did the others, dwelling on the nature of the Republic, which,
though despotic in its decisions and fiercely hostile to the outsider, was nevertheless a city of equal men. Florence, Milan,
Rome-these cities were falling under the power of small elites or powerful families and individuals, while Venice, for all her
faults,Chocolate Ugg, remained governed by her Senators, her powerful merchants and her Council of Ten.
　
　On that first day, an everlasting love for Venice was born in me. It seemed singularly devoid of horrors, a warm home even
for its well-dressed and clever beggars, a hive of prosperity and vehement passion as well as staggering wealth.
　
　And in the tailor shop, was I not being made up into a prince like my new friends?
　
　Look, had I not seen Riccardos sword? They were all noblemen.
　
　Forget all that has gone before, said Riccardo. Our Master is our Lord, and we are his princes, we are his royal court. You
are rich now and nothing can hurt you.
　
　We are not mere apprentices in the ordinary sense, said Albinus. We are to be sent to the University of Padua. Youll see.
We are tutored in music and dance and manners as regularly as in science and literature. You will have time to see the boys
who come back to visit, all gentlemen of means. Why, Giuliano was a prosperous lawyer, and one of the other boys was a
physician in Torcello, an island city nearby.
　
　But all have independent means when they leave the Master, explained Albinus. Its only that the Master, like all
Venetians, deplores idleness. We are as well off as lazy lords from abroad who do nothing but sample our world as though it
were a dish of food.
　
　By the end of this first sunlighted adventure, this welcome into the bosom of my Masters school and his splendid city, I was
combed, trimmed and dressed in the colors he would forever choose for me, sky blue for the stockings, a darker midnight blue
velvet for a short belted jacket, and a tunic of an even fairer shade of azure embroidered with tiny French fleur-de-lis in thick
gold thread. A bit of burgundy there might be for trimming and fur; for when the sea breezes grew strong in winter, this
paradise would be what these Italians called cold.
　
　By nightfall, I pranced on the marble tile with the others, dancing for a while to the lutes played by the younger boys,
accompanied by the fragile music of the Virginal, the first keyboard instrument I had ever seen.
　
　When the last of twilight had died beautifully into the canal outside the narrow pointed arched windows of the palazzo, I
roamed about, catching random glances of myself in the many dark mirrors that rose up from the marble tile to the very ceiling
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　I sang new words in unison with Riccardo. The great state of Venice was called the Serenissima. The black boats of the
canals were gondolas. The winds that would come soon to make us all crazy were called the Sirocco. The most high ruler of
this magical city was the Doge, our book tonight with the teacher was Cicero, the musical instrument which Riccardo gathered
up and played with his plucking fingers was the lute. The great canopy of the Masters regal bed was a baldaquin trimmed each
fortnight with new gold fringe.
　
　I was ecstatic.
　

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