• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 34 pages

• Found in: A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest (Short Story Collection)

Set in Venice, Italy, The Story of Salome is a short story by English author Amelia B Edwards. - AsNotedIn

A few years ago, no matter how many, I, Harcourt Blunt, was travelling with my friend Coventry Turnour, and it was on the steps of our hotel that I received from him the announcement that he was again in love.

Places

• Giudecca, The chief rabbi's address was easily obtained. He lived in an ancient house on the Giudecca, and there I found him a grave, stately old man, with a grizzled beard reaching nearly to his waist.
• Jewish Cemetery Lido, Venice Such dates as I had succeeded in deciphering on the broken sepulchres lower down were all of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
• Lido di Venezia, It was, I think, about the fourth or fifth day of this pleasant work, when my gondolier proposed to take me as far as the Lido.
• Mercerie, Venice, Venice Passing under the low round archway leading to the Merceria, we plunged at once into that cool labyrinth of narrow, intricate and picturesque streets, where the sun never penetrates....
• Piazza San Marco, Venice There was an Austrian military band, strapped, buckled, moustachioed, and white-coated, playing just in front of St Mark's - and the shadow of the great bell-tower slept all across the square.
• Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice The Ducal Palace glowed in the hot sunshine, the boatmen were clustered, gossiping, about the quay, the orange-vendors were busy under the arches of the piazzetta....
• Teatro La Fenice, Venice I dropped in for half an hour at the Fenice, and heard one act of an extremely poor opera....
• Venice, Veneto Not one of them worthy to be named in the same breath with my imperial Venetian. Come with me to the Merceria and be convinced. By taking a gondola to St Mark's Place we shall be there in a quarter of an hour.