This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Venice, 1583. Between the spice houses of the lagoon and the caravanserais of the Orient begins a journey that changes everything with a strange, bitter bean. Cornelius Fontana, a young merchant from the north, and Zaida, daughter of a coffee trader, follow the scent of coffee across a world in upheaval — and write the first entry in a notebook that will outlast generations. The historical prelude to the omaneo saga: about longing, distance, and the first cup of coffee.