title: The World of Venice: Revised Edition
author:  Jan Morris 
description: Morris presents this revised edition of her popular guide to the city's art, culture, people and cuisine, with a new preface. </P><P>Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</P>
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  # **Chapter 30**
  
  Buckley put down his pen. There, finally done. A complete write-up on the
  current activitiesplight might be a better wordof the Committee of
  Correspondence in Venice. Tiny numbers, worthless budget, reliance on street
  kids, the lot. Combined, however, with a wild plan to liberate Galileo from
  the clutches of the Inquisition.
  
  _Damn, damn, damn, damn._ It might be the greatest story of the year, maybe
  the decadelike being able to scoop John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferryand
  Joe wasn't sure if he could print it. No, scratch that. He could print it, all
  right. But the consequences . . .
  
  He thought back ruefully to a conversation he'd had with Father Mazzare only a
  couple of weeks before. _Worse than the consequences of keeping quiet,_
  indeed.
  
  He'd heard a lot from eavesdropping, and filled in the rest from conversations
  with Michel Ducos. The French sympathizer of the Committe