Excerpt from La Courte Vie de Balthazar Aldramin, Venitien J'ai assez connu, vivant, le seigneur Balthazar Aldramin pour que, mort, il vous parle par ma bouche. La sienne ne s'ouvrira plus jamais ni pour rire ni pour chanter, ni pour boire le vin de Genzano ni pour mordre les figues de Pienza, ni pour rien d'autre, car il repose sous la dalle, en l'eglise San Stefano, les mains croisees sur le trou rouge de la blessure qui mit fin a sa courte vie, le troisieme jour de mars, en l'annee 1779. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.