Part II, Chapters 1-5 Summary

Dee is on a train traveling through Northern Italy. She is running low on money, having enough for her fare home after a few days in Livorno. She was tracking the lost Modigliani. She fantasizes about finding the lost Modigliani, thinking, "It might even become known as the Sleign Modigliani - it would make her name. Her career would be secure for the rest of her life" (Part II, Chap. 1, p. 82).

One she arrives in Livorno, she finds a hotel, changes clothes, and goes out to walk around the city. She has to find a way of narrowing down the search. She can't look at every painting on every wall in the city. She tells the hotel proprietor that she came to Livorno to look at the paintings and she wants to see Modigliani's birthplace. He sells...