A week later, she returned. Her essay had earned an A. But more than that, she said, “I sat with my grandmother. She has dementia. She doesn’t know my name anymore. But I held her hand for an hour, and she hummed. The teacher said my essay was ‘invisible and powerful.’ I thought of your dad’s journal.”
In this era, a unique group of people emerged: Ottoman Turks who settled in Venice, and Venetians who settled in Constantinople (Istanbul). This is where the figure of "Antonio Suleiman" historically appears—usually in the ledgers of the Bailo (the Venetian ambassador to the Ottomans) or in the registers of the Nazione Turca (the Turkish merchant community in Venice). antonio suleiman