Greed

Marco Ferrante, founder of the Ferrante Foundation for the Preservation of Venetian Cultural Heritage, is found face-down on the floor of a deconsecrated church. A circle of seven Byzantine coins surrounds the body. A Latin word is written on vellum beside his right hand.Avaritia. Greed.The coins are not a trophy. They are a citation — Byzantine theology on the relationship between beauty, wealth,...