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Burt Hecker, a.k.a. Eckbert Attquiet, is a medieval reenactor and misfit from upstate New York, whose nose is a dead ringer for that of the rhinophyma victim in Ghirlandaio's "Portrait of an Elderly Man with His Son," a miniature copy of which Burt carries in his pouch. As the novel opens, Burt is in Germany, at a nine-hundredth-birthday party for Hildegard von Bingen, but he is soon off to ...