V-4

1908 Words

I hang on the wall a large magnetic board that my sister gave me for Christmas some years ago and that, until now, remained abandoned in the garage. I take all the magnets off the fridge, souvenirs from Croatian holidays, and use them to attach the pictures and the notes to the board. With a marker I write ZOSO, DDCF and Hic Iulianus fuit. I finally sat on the armchair facing the wall and start contemplating it. After a couple of minutes, an illumination: the question is not where, but who moved the imperial body. I get up and add all the names of the characters involved: Valentinian and Valens, authors of the body moving from Tarsus to Constantinople; the Crusaders, who took the remains to Venice; Julian de’ Medici. Yes, he must be the key! He certainly had been in Eleusis and carved

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