Chapter 724 “quaranta”

If Florence has the Medici family, then the founders of Venice are the Participaso family.

During the rule of the Participaso family, the city of Venice has grown to its present size. The first governor of this family, Agnilo, was born in Heraclea, but moved to Leto very early.

, breakwaters, fortifications and stone buildings extended Venice towards the sea.

Agnilo's successor was his son Justiniano, who stole the relics of St. Mark from Alexandria and brought them back to Venice, where they made him the patron saint of the Republic.

In the early days of the founding of Venice, the internal fighting among the families was very fierce. There were various forces behind them. The first assassinated Doge of Venice, Orso Ipato, was elected by the Citizens' Assembly and opposed his succession.

He was appointed by the Byzantine Empire, and many people believe that his death was instigated by Eutychis, Bishop of Ravenna.

The assassin who assassinated him was not caught. The Orseolo family was very prominent in Venice. It was impossible to let go of killing an Orseolo who was the governor so easily. It took four years after his death.

Here, neither Constantinople nor the Citizen Assembly elected a new governor, and the military governor performed the governor's duties.

The Orseolo family also married the King of Hungary. Today, it is difficult to see traces of those ancient families, but the houses where they once lived still remain.

The Orseolo Hotel that Severus booked was the family's former residence. The rooms were very ordinary, and some of the windows were painted. Who knew the Doge of Venice was so short of money that he had to charge a window tax?

But this place is strategically located, only a 5-minute walk from St. Mark's Square. If he really couldn't find where she had gone, he would have been smart enough to remember that he had booked a hotel and she would be waiting for him there, just

That hotel is all in Gryffindor red, and that viper will be very uncomfortable.

An older woman can't help but feel soft. Not only did she plan to stay in the hotel, but she also secretly left the key in the restaurant. Who would have thought that Dean Hufflepuff, who advocates fairness and justice, would also cheat?

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This may be why she can't do great things.

Mass is usually held on weekends, and there are usually people who come to pray in the church. Italian elementary schools finish very early, and students can leave at one o'clock in the afternoon, so there are many children's choir children who can come to the church to practice.

The children's voices singing hymns are so beautiful, they sound like voices from heaven. The contrast between Italian children and British children is really great.

Heaven needs guardians, otherwise it will be invaded by outsiders. Severus is like the bad guy in Hogwarts Castle, but he is also fulfilling his responsibility to protect the castle and the children.

Demons do exist, but they have human skin and cannot be easily discovered.

Somewhere in this church is the cursed stone statue, and the woman who lived for appearance died in front of it.

This area is not far from the Golden House. The houses are not as dirty as the old slums, but they are not as luxurious as those near St. Mark's Square and on both sides of the canal. It can only be said to be a place where the "middle class" lives.

There was a legend when France began a large-scale roundup of the Knights Templar across the country. Venice and the Knights Templar were two organizations that had known each other and cooperated for a long time. They both had systematic and complete financial information networks covering Europe.

And they are all engaged in financial lending business and providing credit to European royal families. Therefore, some people believe that most of the Knights Templar's properties were transferred to Venice and Italy in advance.

The governor of Venice at that time was Petrogradchia. This family was not only very prominent in Venice, but also very prominent throughout Italy. However, now that their family business has opened in Turin, there are only some small industries left in Venice.

Their house is next to the Holy Cross Church, a bit away from the Bridge of Sighs and the Doge's Palace, and only a few streets away from the Old Post Office, only a few minutes' walk away.

In addition to the splendid churches like San Marco, Venice also has the Church of Santa Croce and the small church of St. John and Paul in Pomona. It has no characteristics at all and tourists will not come here, but in

Here you can find tranquility away from the world.

"How do you feel? Are there ghosts here?" Monica asked with great interest.

She heard some whispers, but they were not human voices, more like the rustling of snakes.

"Be careful." Pomona said, "It could be a hundred times scarier than a ghost."

"What could it be?" Alessandro asked.

Pomona ignored him.

When others were not paying attention, she pulled down the invisibility cloak. The moment she became invisible, Alessandro and Monica gasped together.

She followed the sound to the back door of the church. After opening the door that smelled of wood, she came to a cemetery densely covered with tombstones.

The cemeteries of big families are often very luxurious, with marble floors and reliefs of family celebrities, but the cemeteries of civilians are not so luxurious.

Like all Renaissance buildings, the Church of St. John and Paul is surrounded by buildings on four sides and forms a courtyard. Not only are there tombstones everywhere on the grass in the middle, but there are also tombstones under the vaults.

These stone tablets are all made of black marble, with the names of the tomb owners and their statues written on them.

When a plague epidemic occurs, no one has time to dig graves one by one to bury the dead. Usually, a mass grave is dug. No matter what status they were in life, they are all buried together. If the nobles are alive, they will leave a cenotaph, just like Bomo.

The same stone tablet that Na sees now.

Venice has the most haunted plague island, Poveglia.

The old cities in Europe now look beautiful and look like fairy tales, but in fact almost all of them are related to the Black Death.

Forty years after the French hunted the Templars, the Black Death began to attack Venice. The governor ordered all ships that were about to dock to be tied to the shore, and the crew and cargo were to be detained at sea for 40 days to avoid the introduction of the plague.

The Italian word for "forty" is quaranta, from which the word "quarantine" in English evolved.

Not only that, they also turned their attention to Poveglia Island, an uninhabited island not far from St. Mark's Square in the city center, and set up a special quarantine station on the island. At first, those who showed symptoms of the plague were

People with symptoms such as fever, severe toxemia, swollen lymph nodes, pneumonia, etc. will be brought here for isolation.

Later, as the epidemic became more and more serious, the Venetian Parliament became alarmed and sent people with only fever symptoms to the island.

Afterwards, the Black Death returned in 1575 and hit Venice hard again. In these three years, up to 50,000 people died from the Black Death, including Titian.

The Black Death struck again in 1630, killing nearly one-third of the Venetian citizens. In 1793, several cases of plague were found on two merchant ships, and the Napoleonic regime that occupied Venice directly ordered the island of Poveglia to be used as an epidemic isolation area.

Until 1814, it is estimated that about 160,000 people died on the island of Poveglia.

The end of the world will be like this. People are dead on the road, or it will be an empty city. After the plague, new people will live in it, and they have no idea what happened before.

They continued to live hard, running for three meals a day, and then waited for the plague to strike again, maybe not the Black Death, smallpox, cholera, mass deaths again and again.

After death and rebirth, rebirth and death, only a few people can leave tombstones, and the vast majority of people do not even leave their names.

When there was a great plague in London, only one doctor, Simon, was left.

The nobles and wealthy people all ran away, and they also took away all the horses, leaving the helpless poor to fend for themselves in the city.

It was the royal family that chose to abandon its own people, so it cannot be blamed for the people abandoning them. Just as Theodora said: If safety can only be found in escape and there is no other way, I will not choose the path of escape.

Those who wear a crown should not live in vain when they fail. The purple robe is the most beautiful shroud.

Pomona took off her hood and mask. She felt that this place should not welcome carnival people.

It was then that she discovered that those smooth black marble monuments looked like a mirror, reflecting her face.
Chapter completed!