Just a Couple of Married Stonemasons in Italy
By Susan Hart
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Just a Couple of Married Stonemasons in Italy - this story is about an Englishwoman who is sent to Italy to become the bride of an Italian stonemason, living in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. She is an intelligent and inventive woman herself and along with her husband, they come up with several highly unorthodox solutions to both warring factions and taxes.
Susan Hart
I was born in England, but have lived in Southern California for many years. I m now retired and live in the Pacific NW in a little seaside city amongst the giant redwoods and wonderful harbor, almost at the Oregon border. My husband and I have one cat, called Midnight and she is featured in two of my latest Sci-Fi short stories. I love Science Fiction, animals, and trying to help others. I publish under Doreen Milstead as well as my own name. My photo was taken right before the coronation of QE II in the UK.
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Just a Couple of Married Stonemasons in Italy
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Susan Hart
Copyright 2019 Susan Hart
Synopsis: Just a Couple of Married Stonemasons in Italy - this story is about an Englishwoman who is sent to Italy to become the bride of an Italian stonemason, living in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. She is an intelligent and inventive woman herself and along with her husband, then come up with several highly unorthodox solutions to both warring factions and taxes.
In the year of Our Lord 1455, Joane of Teesdale was given in marriage to Mattio of San Eldora in Caserta, Italy. Joane had never met her future husband until the day she stepped off the boat in Naples. The small commune of San Eldora was twenty miles southwest of the city of Naples and had a clear of view of Mt. Vesuvius in the background. The volcano had slept for a long time and had shown no signs of activity for hundreds of years. However, it was a reminder of what could happen should God become displeased with the actions of the Italians.
Joane had come of age in a family of stonemasons. Her father, and his before him, had built the churches and cathedrals that lined the landscape of southern England. They were known throughout the land for their skill and construction. She was the youngest in a family of six, which showed how prosperous her father was in his craft.
She was also the only girl in the family, so it was natural she would grow up imitating her brothers. Her early years were spent playing with rocks and the tools a stonemason would need in their trade. Although her parents intended to marry her off to a family of proper standing, her father saw no issue in letting her play with her brothers and she learned the art of making useful things from stone.
By the time she was twelve, Joane, a sturdy woman with the short and wide body inherited from her mother’s side of the family, could chip away at any block and make it fit whatever shape was needed. Her brothers found it amusing at first that their little sister could carve stone with the best of them, but later it became an irritation when she was capable of doing better work than they.
Joane’s mother would try to teach her the womanly arts, but she kept leaving her sewing for the stone chisel. Even when she did practice embroidery, Joane would turn everything into an image of a tower or wall. Her parents felt it was something she would put aside when given to a proper husband.
When she turned eighteen her father finally located a man who was willing to put up the bridal price for his only daughter: Another master stonemason. But the man was in Italy, which would require him to ship his only daughter a great distance. He had known the man, Signor Mattio, from their mutual work on a cathedral in France. The great stone guilds of Europe would convene on special projects.
They had spent months together working on a large project in Southern France. At the conclusion of their work, William of Teasdale, Joane’s father, had learned his new friend and colleague Mattio, was a widower. His wife had passed away childless several years before, leaving him without heirs to his masonry works in the town of San Eldora, outside of Naples.
Joane’s father realized Signor Mattio was a good ten years older than his daughter,