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In an age of wonderous beauty and terrible secrets, one man searches for his destiny... In the majestic heart of Florence, a beautiful golden-haired boy is abandoned and subjected to cruelty beyond words. But Luca Bastardo is anything but an ordinary boy. Across two centuries of passion and... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Luca Bastardo: The main character, of which the entire book takes place around. He is a Mystery chartacter don't know who he is in the start of the book and he learns much about the world and his background as you read but there is always more to it than you think.
- Leonardo: Add a description of this character.
- Lorenzo De
- Maddalena
- Giotto
- Geber
- Bernardo Silvano
- Marco
- Rachel
- Massimo
- Moshe Sforno
- Bianchi
- Ginori
- Arno
- Petrarca
- Simonetta
- Rebecca
- Nicolo
- Giovanni
- Ficino
- Cosimo
- Ingrid
- Neri
- Sandro
- Wanderer
- Soderini
- Piero
- Papa
- Ubaldo
- Medici
- Rosso
- Bella
- Adam
- Pazzi
- Grazia
- Madonna
- Rinaldo Rucellai
- Domenico
- Federigo
- Miriam
Quotes edit
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“Someone who is ready to die, will. Someone who intends to live, will. Someone who intends to live fully, will. It’s not complex.”
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“A dog that is beaten will stay in his cage even if the fence is removed,” the Wanderer said. “Because the fence is inside him.”
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your life is teaching you. It’s a gift, a great education. And perhaps you suffer now so that great joy can come to you later in life, and the suffering makes you worthy of it. I might know this, if God were to whisper it to me.”
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“The purpose of mourning is to empty the self of the self,” he replied, squeezing my hand. “Then, slowly, drop by drop, you refill yourself with your Self. It takes time.”
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teaching is a matter of drawing out from men what is already in their hearts, and that men learn only what they want to.
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“Don’t men read books and take from them what is already in their own hearts?”
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Alchemy is the search for what not yet is, the art of change, the quest for the divine powers hidden in things! The divine powers reveal themselves as light…he who properly cultivates himself will see the yellow light shine forth as it should!”
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The qualities inside you, those are what you’ve really got to defend yourself with.”
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Words have magic and power, whether written or spoken, and names are the most sacred and powerful words of all!”
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“There’s a truly heretical belief: tolerance.”
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First Sentence edit
My name is Luca and I am dying.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Traci L. Slatton (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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