Venice, Italy

They visited Venice and Milan, like a couple of vagabonds.

The package had been sent from Venice, where Archimboldi, or so he said in a short letter enclosed with the manuscript, had been working as a gardener.

So it was the baroness who appeared one morning in Venice, accompanied by a rather younger Roman engineer.

At the time, Archimboldi still lived in Venice, as far as Bubis knew

From the airport she made it to the station just in time to catch a train to Venice. That evening, in a trattoria in Cannaregio, she saw Archimboldi and gave him a check for the advance on his new novel and the royalties generated by his previous books.

They took a cruise on the Nile, they visited Jerusalem, they drove a rental car around the south of Spain, they saw Florence and Rome and Venice.