The English Tutor - Raul Korso Leo Domenico -... (2026 Edition)

“Your name,” the boy pressed. “Raul. Korso. Leo. Domenico. It is not one man’s name. It is a regiment.”

At that, the tutor turned. And for the first time, the silver in his eyes seemed to burn. The English Tutor - Raul Korso Leo Domenico -...

The four names sat at the top of the parchment, inked in a trembling, aristocratic hand. Lady Vittoria stared at them, her wine glass leaving a faint crimson ring on the ancient oak of her desk. The tutor was to arrive at dawn. She had hired him sight unseen—a scholar from London, recommended by a cardinal no less, to undo the damage of a decade of insular, Tuscan rusticity on her two grandsons. “Your name,” the boy pressed

“Correct,” he said. “Raul was a printer in Lyon who refused to recant. Burned in ’53. Korso was a ship captain who smuggled banned books into Venice. Drowned in chains. Leo was a poet who wrote one sonnet against a pope. Stabbed in a Roman alley. And Domenico was a priest who taught peasants to read the Bible in their own tongue. They hanged him from a fig tree.” It is a regiment

—Raul Korso Leo Domenico.