Description
In Search of the Unknown Alchemist Who Lived in Cyprus
In the heart of old Nicosia stands a modest medieval house that has preserved for
more than five centuries twenty enigmatic bas-reliefs carved in stone. Symbolic animals,
mysterious figures, Hermetic emblems, and references to the Philosophical Mercury
seem to form a hidden alchemical language that has long remained almost unnoticed.
This new book by Furio Morroni was born from the attempt to decipher that language
and to reconstruct the possible story of the man who commissioned those carvings on
the walls of his dwelling in Venetian Cyprus during the Renaissance.
The volume also brings to completion a symbolic trilogy devoted by the author to
the hidden imagery of Cyprus, begun in 2020 with Divina Cypria – Discovering the
Symbols of Christianity in Cyprus, continued with The Green Man – Medieval Art, Pagan
Symbolism, and the Mystery of Cyprus, and now concluded with this investigation into
the alchemical and Hermetic traditions preserved on the island.
This is not a novel, but a documented investigation conducted through ancient texts,
symbolism, iconography, and alchemical literature.
Nearly a century after Fulcanelli’s Philosophical Dwellings, Morroni have attempted to
bring to light a real case that has remained on the margins of attention: a concrete
testimony to the Hermetic tradition of Europe.
For readers fascinated by symbolism, alchemy, hidden history, and the mysterious
language of carved stone, this book offers a journey into one of the most unusual
discoveries I have ever encountered.
