Carlo A. Martigli
Longanesi, Milan, 2012, Italian
Fiction
ISBN: 9788830431980

From the Publisher. 1496. Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been dead for a few months. At the faraway Monastery of Himis in Tibet, a librarian monk, Ada Ta, continues the Count's spiritual legacy, spreading his message of universal harmony between peoples. The two men had, in fact, corresponded extensively for a number of years, with the monk having once sent the Italian writer a copy of the Ipsissima Verba, the secret diary from the years that Jesus (known with the name of Issa) spent in the Orient. In possession of a second copy of this Gospel, in Latin, Ada Ta decides to set off for Rome, accompanied by his young pupil Gua Li, in order to bring the Word of Issa to the West, where it has until now remained a secret. When they arrive in the Eternal City they have to face the Pope Alessandro VI and the artful Giovanni De’ Medici, who try to murder them as the Ipsissima Verba unravel the story of Jesus and thus undermine thousands of years of papal power. Only a man, who might share Mirandola's desires, could help them: his loyal friend Ferruccio Da Mola. Will he be so proud to defy the Pope and to reveal the secret that would join Orient to Occident?

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