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Description:1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers during the battle that temporarily dashes all hopes for the fledging Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down, but circumstances have it otherwise. Eleonora, Goffredo, and Sandor will continue their fervent fight for the cause of freedom—first in Italy with Garibaldi, Margaret Fuller, and Cristina Belgioioso, and years later in America in the Civil War. They will lose track of each other, believe each other dead, and re-find each other. Eleonora and Sandor will fall in love but it will be Eleonora and Goffredo to marry. They will live the rest of their lives in an uncertain truce with the mystery that the medallion masks—a mystery finally resolved in the twenty-first century by their great-great granddaughter, Angie Cebrelli. The source of the mystery goes back to a caste of Northern Italian merchants, the casane, who specialized in moving trade-route gold and silver from one place to another, and in lending credit at trade fairs in Europe between the 12th and 15th centuries. What town or city, in the Western World today, doesn’t have a Lombard Street to remember them by? And yet they were not from Lombardy but from Piedmont—the peaceful Barolo wine-producing area containing the casane and the Monferrat. Under the Marquis Boniface I, the benevolent ruler of Constantinople in the immediate aftermath of its brutal sacking by Crusaders in 1204, the Monferrat dynasty ruled the world. Only the Marquis and the casane knew of the existence of an ancient treasure—a fragment of Alexander the Great’s last treasure buried with the Roman Emperor Aurelian near to Constantinople. The only clue to its whereabouts lies in the medallion created by Aurelian’s high priest—the one which comes to light in Rome in the 19th century. 2008s America. Angie Cebrelli, wearing her inherited medallion during a Gettysburg Civil War re-enactment, receives a bullet in the arm. A photo of her medallion is found a few days later in Rome next to the mutilated body of Father Kevin, a priestly scholar of Ancient Art and Mithraism, a lost religion. She joins forces with the unconventional Italian police detective, Filippo Dardanoni, who has been tailing her for clues about the priest’s murder. Moving in on the treasure for reasons of his own, Dardanoni also has to deal with the dangerous and powerful Vatican Bank. Who will find the treasure? Can it be right under our noses and us not able to touch it?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander’s Medallion. To get started finding The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander’s Medallion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 585

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Dante University Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0937832227

Description: 1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers during the battle that temporarily dashes all hopes for the fledging Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down, but circumstances have it otherwise. Eleonora, Goffredo, and Sandor will continue their fervent fight for the cause of freedom—first in Italy with Garibaldi, Margaret Fuller, and Cristina Belgioioso, and years later in America in the Civil War. They will lose track of each other, believe each other dead, and re-find each other. Eleonora and Sandor will fall in love but it will be Eleonora and Goffredo to marry. They will live the rest of their lives in an uncertain truce with the mystery that the medallion masks—a mystery finally resolved in the twenty-first century by their great-great granddaughter, Angie Cebrelli. The source of the mystery goes back to a caste of Northern Italian merchants, the casane, who specialized in moving trade-route gold and silver from one place to another, and in lending credit at trade fairs in Europe between the 12th and 15th centuries. What town or city, in the Western World today, doesn’t have a Lombard Street to remember them by? And yet they were not from Lombardy but from Piedmont—the peaceful Barolo wine-producing area containing the casane and the Monferrat. Under the Marquis Boniface I, the benevolent ruler of Constantinople in the immediate aftermath of its brutal sacking by Crusaders in 1204, the Monferrat dynasty ruled the world. Only the Marquis and the casane knew of the existence of an ancient treasure—a fragment of Alexander the Great’s last treasure buried with the Roman Emperor Aurelian near to Constantinople. The only clue to its whereabouts lies in the medallion created by Aurelian’s high priest—the one which comes to light in Rome in the 19th century. 2008s America. Angie Cebrelli, wearing her inherited medallion during a Gettysburg Civil War re-enactment, receives a bullet in the arm. A photo of her medallion is found a few days later in Rome next to the mutilated body of Father Kevin, a priestly scholar of Ancient Art and Mithraism, a lost religion. She joins forces with the unconventional Italian police detective, Filippo Dardanoni, who has been tailing her for clues about the priest’s murder. Moving in on the treasure for reasons of his own, Dardanoni also has to deal with the dangerous and powerful Vatican Bank. Who will find the treasure? Can it be right under our noses and us not able to touch it?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander’s Medallion. To get started finding The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander’s Medallion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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