Historical

Florence, 1478

By Ari Weaver

April 1478. You're an apprentice in Andrea del Verrocchio's workshop in Florence, grinding colours and sweeping up bronze filings, and the master's brilliant, sleepless Leonardo keeps borrowing you for his experiments. This week, at Santa Croce, you overheard two men fix a time to kill Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici at Sunday Mass in the cathedral. History says they nearly manage it. You have four days.

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