Название: The Scarlet Contessa
Автор: Jeanne Kalogridis
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007444427
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I listened, dazed, as the priest spoke of Saint Martha and her profession of faith that her brother would indeed rise from the dead.
At last, the priest made the sign of the cross over the grave, and chanted: Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei . . .
It was over. At the priest’s prompting, I clutched a fistful of cold, wet soil and sprinkled it onto Matteo’s coffin. The other four mourners watched me, hesitant. I turned to them, gesturing at the mound of earth.
“Please,” I said.
The woman was first to add her handful of dirt; the men followed. Once I had handed a coin to the priest for his services, and a purse for the monastery from Bona to Brother Domenico, the gravediggers took to their work with haste. I turned to the others.
“Ser Lorenzo,” I asked, “may I have a private word with you?”
He nodded, and moved to my side; the others retreated a few steps, while Lorenzo led me over to a bare-limbed tree, swollen with pink-red bud in response to the unusually mild weather. I tried not to flinch each time a clod of earth struck Matteo’s coffin.
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