The New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue was an island of marble, silence, and academic serenity in the heart of midtown. In the grand Rose Main Reading Room, beneath towering arched ceilings painted with classical Renaissance clouds, two hundred scholars and students worked under the warm glow of brass reading lamps. Elena Bellini sat at an oak study table near the north colonnade, wearing a tailored charcoal wool coat,…
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