Given a marbled notebook to use as a diary the notebook is the unexpectedmeans that transports Lucien to this dangerous new world a world that thrillsto the del... » 

Given a marbled notebook to use as a diary the notebook is the unexpectedmeans that transports Lucien to this dangerous new world a world that thrillsto the delight of political intrigue and where a life can be snuffed out with aflash of a merlino blade. The city of Bellezza Venice in our world isastonishingly evoked. «