Simple answer: It's Venice as in Venezia, Italia, an almost mythical Roman Catholic City State where the English believed that money lending by Christians was against the law but permitted by Jews....
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Simple answer: It's Venice as in Venezia, Italia, an almost mythical Roman Catholic City State where the English believed that money lending by Christians was against the law but permitted by Jews....
"English girls don't know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about English girls."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon.