From Paris to Strasbourg, Charlieu, Lyon and, finally, Geneva, he risked his life in search of an anatomical detail. A man who provoked the hate of two churches. But, from the beginning of the search, he learned that he was tracking a fugitive. There was a man who knew the answer, and all he had to do was to find that man, get the information and return. Benjamin would have to search for the answer to the enigma of the functioning of the heart chambers, and his life would be the price of a failure in the quest. The most famous physician of the Papal States was in need of information for his book of anatomy, and could not obtain it by himself.
Was the Church now chasing converted jews? A request for medical care, from the famous artist? A trap? Years had passed since the master and himself converted to Catholicism to escape from the inquisitors. But then came that unexpected messenger, urging them to travel to Rome by request of Michelangelo Buonaroti. All Benjamin wanted, in that year of 1553, was to live his normal life in Ancona, learning the art of medicine from his master.
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