Caprice and Rondo - Dorothy Dunnett [338]
for he was wiser than once he had been.
He gathered her into his arms, and loved her, and thought how blessed he was.
The author wishes to express warm thanks to the Centralne Muzeum Morskie, the Polish Maritime Museum of Gdańsk, source of much of the known information about the seamaster Paúel Benecke, and possessor of an elegant scale model of the actual Peter von Danzig. The kind help of the museum’s staff and librarian, Boźena Šwiderska, was invaluable in recreating the Danzig of half a millennium ago.
Perhaps it should be added that Hans Memling’s historic painting, The Last Judgement, remained in Gdańsk, and is on public view there.