Chapter 29
February 1061 (year 453 from Hegira, end of the month of Muḥarram), Tragina
Corrado, day after day, matured the awareness of having made a fool and of having discredited the whole family. After all, Apollonia was right: it was true that looking at things from the right perspective, they weren’t so bad. He therefore threw himself headlong into work and to fortify his position in the lands where he had taken refuge. His goal was to return to Qasr Yanna with enough money to redeem his wrongdoings.
Intended to go to the heart of Demona's iqlīm, he finally stopped at the gates of the region, in that Tragina beyond whose valleys twenty-one years earlier his father had been killed in battle. To Demona’s iqlīm there were many Christians and few Moorish masters; there Christians have
