Kate Ross - The Devil in Music (Julian Kestrel Mystery)
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TheDevil in Music by Kate Ross
Alsoby Kate Ross
Cutto the Quick
ABroken Vessel
Whomthe Gods Love
THEDEVIL IN MUSIC
KateRoss
Hodder& Stoughton
Copyright1997 Kate Ross
Firstpublished in the United States of America in 1997
byViking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
Firstpublished in Great Britain in 1997 by Hodder and Stoughton
Adivision of Hodder Headline PLC
Theright of Kate Ross to be identified as the Author of the Work hasbeen asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs andPatents Act 1988.
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Allrights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by anymeans without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor beotherwise ckculated in any form of binding or cover other than thatin which it is published and without a similar condition beingimposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Allcharacters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance toreal persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
ACIP catalogue record for this title is available from the BritishLibrary
ISBN0 340 64925 9
Printedand bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent
Hodderand Stoughton
Adivision of Hodder Headline PLC
338Euston Road
LondonNW1 3BH
ANOTE ON THE MILANESE DIALECT
Formuch of this book, readers are asked to pretend that the charactersare speaking Italian or, more precisely, Milanese, the old dialect ofLombardy. A few Milanese words are used, such as signor for signore,popola for signorina, and palazz for palazzo. But by and large I'vechosen not to throw foreign words into the dialogue, except when theyare mixed into an otherwise English conversation. My reasoning wasthat those of the characters who speak Milanese would not sound"foreign" to one another.
CHARACTERS
TheMalvezzi family
LODOVICOMALVEZZI .....................a Milanese marquis (marchese)
BEATRICEMALVEZZI his wife
RINALDOMALVEZZI ........................Lodovico's son by a previousmarriage FRANCESCA ARGENTI MALVEZZI his wife
NICCOLOMALVEZZI}
BIANCAMALVEZZI} .........................their children
CARLOMALVEZZI............................Lodovico's younger brother, acount (come)
Malvezziservants
ERNESTOTORELLI ..........................Lodovico's manservant
GUIDOGENNARO ............................Carlo's manservant
NINACASSERA................................Beatrice's maid
BRUNOMONTI}
TOMMASOAGOSTI}.........................footmen
MATTEOLANDI............gardener of Villa Lealta
LUCIALANDIhis daughter
ABBMOROSI.................................tutor to Niccolo and Bianca
Themusical world
"ORFEO".........................................an English tenor
PIETROBRAN DOLING
VALERIANO")......... male soprano
MAESTROFILIPPO DONATI ..............a singing teacher and composer ANTONIOFARE SE ToN io Maestro Donati's "Eyes"
(1821)SEBASTIANO BORDA Maestro Donati's "Eyes"
(1825)GASTON DE LA MARQUE....a dilettante music scholar
Britishvisitors to Lombardy
JULIANKESTREL...a gentleman
THOMASSTOKES DIPPER" his manservant
DUNCANMACGREGOR....................MT. Kestrel's friend; a surgeon THEHON. BEVERLEY ST. CARR........a young man on the Grand
TourHUGO FLETCHER his tutor
Inhabitantsof Solaggio
FRBEDRICHVON KRAUSS garrison commander
BENEDETTORUGA. mayor (podesta)
DONCRiSTOFORO...........................parish priest
LUIGICURIONI ...............................physician
MARIANNAFRASCANI ......................landlady of the Nightingale
ROSAFRASCANI ..............................her daughter
Miscellaneous
GIANGALEAZZO RAVERSI ................a Milanese count (come),
friendof Lodovico Malvezzi CAM ILLO PALMIERIthe Malvezzi family lawyer
ALFONSOGRiMANi..........................a police official commissa rio
PAOLOZANETnhis clerk and interpreter
PART
ONE
March1821
Heloves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays withme; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
WilliamBlake Song
LodovicoMalvezzi signed his name with a flourish and sat back to read what hehad written:
CastelloMalvezzi 13 March 1821 Signora,
Myson has very properly passed your letter on to me. Neither he nor Ican be moved by such appeals. I swear by God and the Madonna thatyou will not see Niccolo and Bianca or hold any communication withthem, as long as you remain with Signor Valeriano. I think you knowthat I am a man of my word.
Yousay that they are your children that in charity to them, if not toyou, I should not keep them from their mother. I say that they nowhave only one parent: my son, who has not disgraced them. My God, doyou think I would allow those precious children the blood of myblood, the sole hopes of my line to fall into the hands of a womanwho has brought infamy on their name? My one consolation is that,situated as you are, you cannot bring into the world bastards whomthey must own as brothers or sisters.
Imight have known that, as soon as Rinaldo returned from his travels,you would turn up and try to come round him with your prayers andpersuasions. I understand that you and your friend have even had theaudacity to take up residence just across the lake from my castle. (I use the word "friend," not out of any consideration foryour feelings, but because to call him your lover
wouldbe an outrage against nature.) Your hopes are vain, and your journeyfrom Venice useless. Rinaldo will not see you, and my servants knowthat anyone who admits you to my house or breathes a word to you ofthe children will feel the full weight of my displeasure.
Ifyour punishment seems harsh, ask yourself or better still, ask apriest if it is any more than you have deserved. It is never wo lateto repent, this side of Heaven. Renounce Signor Valeriano and returnto my son. Otherwise, your children are as dead to you as if you hadburied them with your own hands.
Iremain, to my lasting shame and regret, your father-in-law,
LodovicoMalvezzi
Lodovicosmiled with satisfaction. It would do. He folded the letter,addressed it, and went to the window, where he had left a stick ofwax to warm in the sun. A candle-flame would have melted the wax farmore quickly, but Lodovico would have thought it a shockingextravagance to keep a candle burning in broad daylight, just to seala letter. He placed a dollop of wax on the letter and ground hisseal into it. The seal left a bold, clear imprint of his familydevice: a sword pointing upward, with a serpent coiled around theblade.
Hewas about to ring for a servant to take the letter. Then a frowngathered on his brow, and he took a turn about the room. His studywas on the topmost floor of the castle's largest tower. One windowfaced west, over the castle courtyard with its high, spiked curtainwall, toward an expanse of tree-covered hills dotted with hardy stonecottages. In the distance rose a range of purple Alps, mantled inmist and crowned with snow. The window opposite looked out on thesilver-blue ribbon of the Lake of Como, and the jagged promontories,plunging ravines, and wooded slopes that lined its shores. Lodovicowas master of all he surveyed: what he did not own outright, hedominated by virtue of his rank, wealth, and high standing withMilan's Austrian overlords.
Andyet his daughter-in-law a mere woman, hardly more than a girl! haddefied him for nearly two years, cleaving steadfastly to hermonstrous lover and resisting all his threats. Her infidelity wasthe least of her crimes: in Milan, many a married lady of rank hadher cavalier, and society viewed them both with an indulgent eye, ifthe lover was well born, and the affair was conducted discreetly. But Francesca had attached herself to a singer one who could not evenbe
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