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FROM THE GLASS OCEAN: A Novel in Progress

FROM THE GLASS OCEAN: A Novel in Progress Lori Giorgio looks thoughtful for a moment, and then he says, Yes, this is a very good example of how things can go wrong, this case of Carlo Dell’oro of Urbino. He was a talented man, but nonetheless. . . . His was a story that the Old Ones told to us very often when we were little, it was our, how would you say it? Our bedtime story? Yes. We grew up on it. Shall I tell it to you now? Leo is completely taken in, he nods, now that Giorgio has started talking, irresistibly as ever, he wants to hear it all. Carlo Dell’oro lived a long time ago, Giorgio says, in the north, in Urbino . . . like your Papa used to be, he was a goldsmith, and just like your Papa, he was a very good one. Like all the Dell’oros he was a small man, neat, well turned-out, and in his manner grave, precise, and serious. Urbino was a very great city, a wealthy city, with palazzos, and fountains, and city squares, a real museo, and even a city hall whose parapets were decorated, so the Old Ones told us, with gold. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

FROM THE GLASS OCEAN: A Novel in Progress

Baker, Lori
Common Knowledge , Volume 16 (1) – Jan 1, 2010
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Lori Giorgio looks thoughtful for a moment, and then he says, Yes, this is a very good example of how things can go wrong, this case of Carlo Dell’oro of Urbino. He was a talented man, but nonetheless. . . . His was a story that the Old Ones told to us very often when we were little, it was our, how would you say it? Our bedtime story? Yes. We grew up on it. Shall I tell it to you now? Leo is completely taken in, he nods, now that Giorgio has started talking, irresistibly as ever, he wants to hear it all. Carlo Dell’oro lived a long time ago, Giorgio says, in the north, in Urbino . . . like your Papa used to be, he was a goldsmith, and just like your Papa, he was a very good one. Like all the Dell’oros he was a small man, neat, well turned-out, and in his manner grave, precise, and serious. Urbino was a very great city, a wealthy city, with palazzos, and fountains, and city squares, a real museo, and even a city hall whose parapets were decorated, so the Old Ones told us, with gold.

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Common Knowledge – Duke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2010

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