Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 724 "quaranta"

  If there is a Medici family in Florence, then the founder of Venice is the Patti Chipaso family.

  During the reign of the Patti Chipaso family, the city of Venice has developed to the size it is today. The first governor of the family, Agniro, was born in Heraclea, but moved to Reto very early. He built bridges, canals, breakwaters, fortifications and stone buildings to expand Venice to the sea.

  Agnero’s successor is his son Giustignano, who stole the relics of San Marco 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 family fighting was very fierce. There were various forces behind them. The first assassinated Venetian Governor Orso Ipato was elected by the citizens' assembly. He opposed his succession. The man was appointed by the Byzantine Empire, and many people believe that his death was led by Bishop Orticis of Ravenna.

The assassin who assassinated him was not caught. The Orseolo family is very prominent in Venice. It is impossible to kill a person from the Orseolo family who was the governor so easily. Four years after his death Here, neither Constantinople nor the Citizens' Assembly has the obligation to elect a new governor, and the military chief shall act as the governor.

  The Orseolo family is still married to the Hungarian king. It is hard to see them in the old families today, but the house where they once lived is still left.

  The Orseolo Hotel booked by Severus is the residence of this family. The rooms are very ordinary, and some windows are still painted. Who told the Governor of Venice to be short of money to collect window tax.

  But this place is strategically located, only 5 minutes walk from St. Mark’s Square. If he really can’t find where she’s gone, if he’s smart enough, he should remember that he booked a hotel, and she will wait for him there, but that hotel is all red in Gryffindor, and the viper will It was very uncomfortable.

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

  This may be the reason why she can't do a big thing.

  Mass is usually held on weekends, and there are usually people who come to pray in the church. Italian primary schools leave school very early and students can leave at 1 pm. Therefore, there are many children's choir children who can come to the church to practice.

  The children’s voice singing hymns is so good, it sounds like a voice from heaven. The contrast between the children in Italy and the United Kingdom is really great.

  Heaven needs a guardian, 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 grown human skins and will not be found easily.

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

  This area is not far from the Golden House. The house is not as dirty as the old slum, but by no means is it as luxurious as the neighborhood of 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 search of the Knights Templar throughout the territory. Venice and the Knights Templar are two organizations that have been familiar with and cooperated for a long time. They both have a systematic and complete financial information network covering Europe. They are both engaged in financial lending business and provide credit to the European royal family. Therefore, some people believe in the temple. Most of the Knights’ property was transferred to Venice and Italy in advance.

  The governor of Venice at the time was Pietro Gracia. This family was not only prominent in Venice, but also prominent throughout Italy, but now that their family business has opened in Turin, there are still some small businesses left in Venice.

  Their house is next to the Church of Santa Croce, a little distance from the Bridge of Sighs and the Doge’s Palace, and only a few blocks away from the old post office, just a few minutes’ walk away.

In addition to the magnificent churches like San Marco, Venice also has the Church of Santa Croce and the small churches of Pomona in the churches of St. John and Paul. It has no characteristics at all. Tourists will not come, but in Here you can find peace away from the world.

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

  She heard some whispers, but it was not the sound of people talking, it was more like the rustling of a snake.

   "Be careful." Pomona said, "That might be something a hundred times more terrifying than a ghost."

   "What will it be?" Ali Sandro asked.

  Pomona ignored him.

  She took advantage of other people's attention and pulled down the cloak of invisibility. The moment she became invisible, Ali Sandro and Monica took a breath.

   Following the sound, she walked towards the back door of the church. After opening the wood-scented door, she came to a cemetery, which was densely covered with tombstones.

  The cemeteries of large families are often luxurious, with marble floors and reliefs of family celebrities, but the common people’s cemeteries are not so luxurious.

  Like all Renaissance buildings, St. John’s and Paul’s Churches are surrounded by buildings on all sides to form a courtyard. Not only are there tombstones everywhere on the grass in the middle, but even under the vault.

  The steles are made of black marble with the names of the owners of the tombs and their statues written on them.

When the plague is pandemic, no one will have time to dig a grave one by one to bury the dead. Generally, a mass grave is dug. Regardless of their status in life, they are all buried together. If the nobles speak, there will be a burial mound, just like Bomo. Na now sees the same stele.

  Venice has one of the most haunted plague islands, the island of Poville.

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

  Forty years after the French hunted down 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 should stay at sea for 40 days to avoid the spread of the plague. "Forty" is quaranta in Italian, and the word "quarantine" in English evolved from this.

  Not only that, they also turned their attention to the uninhabited island not far from St. Mark’s Square in the city center, Poville Island, and set up a special quarantine station on the island. At the beginning, those who showed symptoms of the plague, such as fever, severe toxemia, lymphadenopathy, pneumonia, etc., would be brought here for isolation.

  Later, as the epidemic became more and more serious, the Venice Council was panicked and sent those who only had fever symptoms to the island.

  After that, the Black Death made a comeback in 1575 and once again hit Venice. During these three years, as many as 50,000 people died of the Black Death, and Titian was among them.

  The Black Death struck again in 1630, killing nearly one-third of the citizens of Venice. Several cases of plague were found on two merchant ships in 1793. The Napoleonic regime that occupied Venice directly ordered the island of Poville as a quarantine area. Until 1814, it is estimated that there were approximately 160,000 lives around the island of Poville. Lost here.

  This is the end of the world. People are dead on the road, or else it is an empty city. After the plague, new people will live in again, without knowing what happened before.

  They continued to work hard to live, running around for three meals a day, and then waiting for the plague to strike again, maybe not the Black Death, smallpox, cholera, and group deaths time and time again.

  Death and rebirth, birth and death, there are only a few people who can leave tombstones, and most people don’t even leave their names.

  When the great plague was in London, only one doctor, Simon, remained.

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

  It is that the royal family chose to abandon their own people, and you can’t blame the people for abandoning them, just like Theodora said: If safety can only be found in the escape, and there is no other way, I will not choose the path of escape. A person wearing a crown shouldn’t be surviving when he fails. The purple robe is the most beautiful shroud.

  Pomona took off the hood and mask. She felt that this place should not welcome carnivals.

   At this moment, she discovered that the smooth black marble tablets looked like a mirror, reflecting her face.

  (End of this chapter)