Once again, The Infinite Bard is showcasing some of my fiction. This is absolutely free! Please visit their website to leave comments and enjoy much more free fiction. This story is dear to my heart, dealing as it does with the history of the printed book. Aldus Manutius essentially invented the book as we know it today, right down to inventing the typefaces we know and love. But did one of his most intriguing texts once belong to the notorious Lucrezia Borgia herself? Authenticity “You’re late,” the skinny clerk hissed at Claudia as he opened the creaking wooden…