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Signor Deodati
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Chapter iii.
The palace of Simon Turchi,
and what occurred there 43
Chapter IV.
The attempted assassination—the
assassinator slain 64
Chapter V.
Van de Werve’s reception—Simon
Turchi’s jealousy
and hatred
79
Chapter vi.
Simon Turchi wreaks his vengeance
on Geronimo 96
Chapter VII.
Grief at Geronimo’s absence—Turchi’s
hypocrisy 112
Chapter VIII.
Simon Turchi tries to conceal
his crime 128
Chapter IX.
Geronimo resurrected
143
Chapter X.
Simon Turchi’s alarm—crime
begets crime 157
Chapter XI.
Food at last—death
of Julio 171
Chapter XII.
Is it his ghost?—The
guilty exposed 180
Chapter XIII.
Mary Van de Werve’s (now
Madame Geronimo Deodati)
departure for Italy—the
punishment of Simon
Turchi
193
THE AMULET.
CHAPTER I.
Previous to the close of the fifteenth century, the direction taken by European commerce remained unchanged. America had not been discovered, and the only known route to India was by land.
Venice, enthroned by her central position as queen of commerce, compelled the nations of Europe and Asia to convey to her port all the riches of the world.
One single city, Bruges in Flanders, serving as an international mart for the people of the North and South, shared, in some measure, the commercial prosperity of Venice; but popular insurrections and continual civil wars had induced a large number of foreign merchants to prefer Brabant to Flanders, and Antwerp was becoming a powerful rival to Bruges.
