The Enterprise of Death

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1. Prologue The Worst Beginning Imaginable
2. I Death and the Artist
3. II The Coming of His Acolytes
4. III The Crucible of Madness
5. IV The Three Apprentices of the Necromancer
6. V The Final Test
7. VI The Soldier and Death
8. VII The Last Apprentice
9. VIII Awkward Adolescence
10. IX Medicines Bitter as Wormwood
11. X Cruel Youth
12. XI The Soldier and the Witch
13. XII Something Sweeter Than Unspoiled Wine
14. XIII The Counsel of Corpses
15. XIV The Long Walk to Golgatha
16. XV The Judgment of Milan
17. XVI Syphilis and the Magus
18. XVII The Hangman ’s Sword
19. XVIII A Discharge, with Some Weeping
20. XIX The Smith ’s Guns
21. XX Manuel ’s Ladies
22. XXI Breakfast in Bern
23. XXII Dancing After Midnight
24. XXIII The Rise of the Hammer
25. XXIV The Whores, the Boors, and the Moor
26. XXV The Judgment of Paris
27. XXVI Necromancers and Other Scavengers
28. XXVII The High Cost of Living
29. XXVIII A Happy Reunion
30. XXIX A Fast Night in the Black Forest
31. XXX The Hammer Falls
32. XXXI A Slow Night in the Black Forest
33. XXXII The Convergence of Trails
34. XXXIII Bastards of the Schwarzwald
35. XXXIV Sharp Truths
36. XXXV A Tale for a Colder Night
37. XXXVI The Requiem of Bicocca
38. XXXVII Death and the Maiden
39. XXXVIII Eternity in the Tomb
40. XXXIX Et in Arcadia Ego
41. Bibliography
42. Acknowledgments