On the authority of al-Kindi’s Tarikh, the young monk, without allowing himself any rest from his scientific exertions, headed with utmost speed towards the Kingdom of Aragon, on the only mule that Montepulsiano possessed. He arrived in the capital of Aragon, Saragossa, within a week dusty and weary but in high spirits. He had ridden day and night, fortified only by the miraculous medicinal properties of the fermented grapes that al-Homsi had created. He gained immediate audience to the august Archbishop of Aragon, Ferdinand el-Rey lobo, after presenting him with a casket of al-Homsi’s medicine. Adolphius excitedly related from memory what he had heard and understood; the ghost begat the son who lived in a cupboard and that the king was really the father of the ghost and the son was really
