Avon Modern Short Story Monthly #36 — page 59: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

- dae © Vlight of Stranglers ‘CIOVANNA OF NAPLES AND ANDREAS OF HUNGARY HARLES, Duke of Durazzo, was one of your super chess- players, handling kings and queens, knights and prelates of flesh and blood in the game that he played with Destiny upon the dark board of Neapolitan politics. And he had no illusions on the score of the forfeit that would be claimed by his grim opponent in the event of his own defeat. He knew that his head was the stake he set upon the board, and he knew, too, that defeat must inevitably follow upon a single false move. Yet he played boldly and craftily, as you shall judge. He made his first move in March of 1343, some three months after the death of Robert of Anjou, King of Jerusalem and Sicily, as ran the title of the ruler of Naples. He found his opportunity amid the appalling anarchy into which the kingdom was then plunged as a result of a wrong and an ill-4judged attempt to’ right it. Good King Robert the Wise had wrested the crown of Naples from his elder brother, the King of Hungary, and had ruled as a usurper. Perhaps to quiet his conscience, perhaps to ensure against future strife between his own and his brother’s descendants, he had attempted to right the wrong by a marriage between his brother’s grandson Andreas, and his own grand-daughter Giovanna, a mar-. 59 Comicbooks (Eo)