Bridge of Sighs: A Short Story of the Bubonic Plague
Pages: 14
|Published: 22 Sep 2016
Description
Venice, 1610:
“My uncle the goldsmith died less than an hour ago but the Plague Doctor is already at our door…”
After the bubonic plague takes his parents, ten-year-old Tonino is apprenticed to his uncle in a small goldsmith’s studio perched on a bridge. But as the Black Death reaches its hand into his uncle’s workshop, young Tonino is faced with making a choice to survive.
From the author of THE GONDOLA MAKER and MADE IN VENICE comes a short tale of pestilence, Venetian artisanship, and the will to live.
“My uncle the goldsmith died less than an hour ago but the Plague Doctor is already at our door…”
After the bubonic plague takes his parents, ten-year-old Tonino is apprenticed to his uncle in a small goldsmith’s studio perched on a bridge. But as the Black Death reaches its hand into his uncle’s workshop, young Tonino is faced with making a choice to survive.
From the author of THE GONDOLA MAKER and MADE IN VENICE comes a short tale of pestilence, Venetian artisanship, and the will to live.
