Doctor D’Arco, Sorcerer of London

Doctor D’Arco, Sorcerer of London

Author: Kathryn Colvin Listening Length: 28h 57m

A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice. A Victorian Gothic Romance for all time. In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever—or whatever—caused her Egyptologist husband’s uncanny demise. Everything change...

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40. “Of all my crimes, my one true sin”

Chapter 40

“Of all my crimes, my one true sin”

The old vellum of Victor’s self-inscribed book crackled softly as I turned the page, but there was no more for me to read: there the English ended, and the Italianate language resumed, its vocabulary and structure obscure to me. I imagined it must have been Neapolitan—hadn’t he written that he spoke Neapolitan to his tenant and rival courtier Iacomo, while the latter preferred to speak Angevin French?—yet if this solved one small mystery, it introduced a greater one.

I knew something of the history of the Continent. The French House of Anjou had last ruled Naples centuries ago. Some four hundred years, if I was not mistaken.