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In a black and white marble palace in Genoa, in whose centre courtyard grew oranges and palms, about a painted basin of clear water from which rose the silver jet of a fountain, Girolamo Lippomano, envoy of the Doge of Venice to the Commander of the Spanish Navy, was having his last conversation with Juan de Escovedo.
The two were in the embrasure of a window that looked down on to the fountain and the orange-trees and the arcades of the palace that belonged to Giovanni Andrea d'Oria who had led the Genoese galleys at Lepanto.