Alexander
the
search for truth
Synopsis
We
are at the beginning of 1700 Alexander was born in Ventotene a small
island
in the Mediterranean near the southern coast of Italy, he happily
spends
his childhood with his parents and other people in the place, showing
an
early age to have a certain talent for the study and learning. his
father
because
of his business trips and events related to its activities that keep
away
from home decided to entrust him at the care of an abbot in the
monastery
of Rocca Neto in Calabria. Then after a few years his parents take
it
back with them,because of some events will be forced to travel for a
long
time
in the distant and unknown lands where continues its
research.Grisilio
is
an old man with boundless wisdom becomes his teacher and during the
journey
will teach you many things together are looking for two very precious
and
ancient books useful to their research through the entire north
African
region
on foot until you come to Egypt to Alessandria.They find those books
and
will no longer be the same.
After
reading those books Alexander finds out who he really is.
Chapter
1
Birth
and childhood
During
a stormy morning in late October in the Mediterranean Sea, a few
miles
from
the coast of southern Italy is an island named Ventotene, a witness
of what
was
once the ancient civilization to which we owe much of our knowledge.
Lightning
and stormy sea seem to unleash their violence on this little pebble
ground.
Sail the mighty waves of the coast such as fairs insatiable boulders
on a
defenseless
prey.
The
population is divided into those who attunes himself in silence and
those who
prefer
to drink excellent wine that this country offers, looking resigned
hope the
end
of the event. More in the 'not far from the small group of terraced
houses and
overlapping
there 'a home quadrangular, modest but very well maintained.
In
this place and time that comes to light the little Alexander.
They
spend a few moments and the midwife, skilled in his craft known from
experience,
he realizes that the little voice does not come out and it looks
almost
dead,
what can happen in a short time, the midwives know this because they
know
the
ways to revive the life that passes from one state to another, but in
this case
there
was no reason to think that little could be born with a defect or
have lost their
lives
before they even come into the world, so we tried 'in vain to revive
him.
Among
the powerful thunder that seemed to rage in that place, is a knock at
the
door
with three powerful touches to which was added a very hoarse voice:''
Aperite
venit
ita venerable and repeats'' ''' Aperite venit ita ventu.'' In house
between the
fear
of lightning and tremendous anxiety for the fate of the newborn, it
was decided
to
open the door to see who it was. It has a slender build and the friar
habit very wet
with
the strange salty smell seemed to be out of the sea in the middle of
the same in
all
that noise, with if you had a very old leather bag from which we
could see the end
of
a great book binding.
The
monk will present 'with great modesty, saying between her lips and
her name
Alcino''
my name and the midwife came to spend the little body, even without
voice,
in
language unintelligible whisper softly in the ear of baby three words
ending in
now''
in this spontaneously and without linger even Alexander the little
time you
open
your eyes and immediately responded with a shrill cry.
His
father Antonio, who up to that time taken by anguish and abandoned
hopes
jump
'from the place where it was touch' the ceiling beam by getting even
worse, but
the
joy overcame the pain and immediately rushed 'to see his son.
The
mother Anna Magdalena between labor pains and anguish later wept so
much
that
all the fear of the storm was forgotten.
The
midwife whose name and 'Mirta amazed at everything he asked the monk
how
it
was possible such an event.
He
just said that the baby was just sleeping, in a way that unknown and
almost
seemed
that some strange force of nature you would somehow deprive the
continuity
of life in this small man, for a second opinion from his business
very
admirable.
That
said approached 'Anna Magdalene and utter a few words in his ear
incomprehensible
to those present in the room, so' she stopped crying in his arms
to
keep the little baby boy. Meanwhile, the storm calmed down and after
a short
time
Alcino decided to go away, in vain was the attempt to restrain
Antonio still to wipe away the habit still wet. In no way but
restrain him, he promised them that
they
would then come back later to educate the small letters and writing.
Before
leaving
Alcino took from the bag a small vial containing ointment that I give
'to the
mother
and then in a wooden box containing a small game similar to snakes
and
ladders
but with the substantial difference both in the images in the path.
You
leave 'from them and advising to carefully store the game until he
had reached
six
years of age'. Antonio feeling obliged with the friar had come out of
his house to
look
for something suitable for both dry and dress that the body of the
friar.
But
on his return I can not find Alcino. As often happens after every
event, he is
quite
bad there off to celebrate for the escaped mourning.
Antonio
told that night in his own way sometimes adding more details about a
happy
story of which was the protagonist and as often happens at the fact
that if it
can
be considered accomplished in the same place to tell it often and
adding things,
it
becomes even more legendary for the protagonist about the author.
Antonio
'a merchant of Greek origin, born in the northern Aegean island
Lemnos
famous,
practice the trade of basic necessities' such as oil flour and
spices, and rich
enough
to buy a small ship with a sail and which also because the captain..
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