The only trouble with the regular Kindle is that the maps can be rather small. So I thought I'd share them here. These were drawn by my mother, Jill Blixt, and she did an incredible job. They're based on the maps in A.M. Allen's THE HISTORY OFVERONA. First we have the map of the region:
Next is the map of the city itself:
Next comes the only map that changes between books, the map of the area around Cangrande's palace. On these maps and in the novels, it's labeled Piazza della Signoria. That's a deliberate error on my part – it should be the Piazza dei Signori. But having made the error in the first novel, I've decided to stick with it. It's not incorrect, but it's not right either.
So this is the version from THE MASTER OF VERONA, in 1314:
Note an anachronism. Via Cappello is a modern name (since 1871), taken from the inn with stable ‘at the sign of the hat’, the building that is now known as ‘Juliet’s House’. The oldest known name is Via di San Bastiàn (Street of St. Sebastian), from the name of a church built in 932 A.D. at one end of the street (nowadays it is one of the buildings of the Civic Library). But again, it helps with the story and I used it in MoV, so it remains.
Next there are some subtle changes over the next 11 years, bringing us to the map for VOICE OF THE FALCONER in 1325:
And there's no real change from that to the map for FORTUNE'S FOOL:
