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Название книги: The Sheen of the Silk
Автор(ы): Anne Perry
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Sheen-of-the-Silk-192281.html

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Dedicated to Jonathan*
Chart of Characters
VENICEGiuliano DandoloPietro ContariniBYZANTIUMAnna Lascaris (Anastasius Zarides)Justinian Lascaris (her twin brother)Bishop ConstantineZoe ChrysaphesHelena Comnena (Zoe’s daughter)Emperor Michael PalaeologusNicephoras (palace eunuch)Bessarion ComnenosAndrea MocenigoAvram ShacharEirene VatatzesDemetrios Vatatzes (her son)Gregory Vatatzes (her husband)Arsenios Vatatzes (Gregory’s cousin)Georgios Vatatzes (Arsenios’s son)Cosmas KantakouzenosLeo (servant to Anna)Simonis (servant to Anna)Sabas (servant to Zoe)Thomais (servant to Zoe)Charles, Count of Anjou, king of Naples and the Two Sicilies and younger brother of the king of FranceROMEEnrico PalombaraNiccolo Vicenze (both papal legates)
Prologue
THE YOUNG MAN STOOD ON THE STEPS, ADJUSTING HIS eyes to the shadows. The torchlight flickering over the water’s surface made the aisles of the great underground cistern look like some half-drowned cathedral. Only the tops of the columns were visible, holding up t