Chapter 796 Oraculum
When Pomona mentioned the violin, the first things that came to her mind were Sherlock Holmes and Butterfly Lovers.
The famous detective who lives in Baker Street is an eccentric person. His hobby is playing the violin. He is not only a skilled performer, but also a talented composer. He likes music and likes to be in the atmosphere of music.
Let your body and mind relax.
However, he lives in the city, and hearing his melancholy music whispering back in the long silent night is like hearing a cat meowing in spring, which is so annoying that it disturbs people's sleep. The neighbors will
Call the police.
Butterfly Lovers is very beautiful. It tells the love story between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The tearful story is very touching, and the sound of the violin is also very beautiful. However, it is broadcast every day and every month, just like Christmas songs.
It's the same brainwashing, so it's the same as Pavlov's conditioned reflex.
Suddenly a girl appears in a place full of boys, and whatever they were doing before will stop.
The boy was not happy when the girl asked the boy to stay with her to play house with her. When the boy played football, he also felt that he could not have enough fun with the girl. In class, girls who got better grades than boys would be bullied by boys.
Even Jean Jacques Rousseau felt that women should be inferior to men. They belong to the family and should not compete with men outside.
It is difficult for women to compete with men. Zhu Yingtai disguised herself as a man and entered a boarding school, which would definitely bring a lot of inconvenience to her life. Although Elena Lucrezi Yarnaro did not have to dress up as a man like her, and she did not live in
In the dormitory, we still have to face many challenges.
She was an illegitimate daughter, like Cecilia Venier, but her mother was a peasant, and her mother, Zanetti Boni, came to Venice to escape famine.
The war has left many people in famine and fear, and diseases have spread among the refugees. In this world, there are nobles who seek pleasure regardless of the life and death of others, and there are also people like Giambattista Cornaro Piscopia
This kind of nobleman is willing to donate his wealth to help the poor.
Giambattista and Zanetti met in the refugee camp, he helped her, she fell in love with him, and everything happened naturally.
They were not yet married when Elena Lucrezi Jarnaro was born, but she was not their first child.
The huge status gap makes it almost impossible for Zanetti and Battista to get married. One is a peasant fleeing for famine, and the other is the heir to one of the most powerful families in the Republic of Venice. Although Battista's inheritance rights are lower,
He still had the right to inherit. In that era of war, plague, famine and natural disasters, anything could happen.
It took Battista 28 years to convince his family to allow him to marry Zanetti. At the same time, he also gave up all the privileges given to him by the family. He started a family of his own and changed his surname to Jarnaro. He and Zanetti
All of Zanetti's children were born in the Ronaldinian Palace in Piscopia. Although Zanetti was his mistress, Battista had no wife or other mistresses. Their relationship lacked only a benefactor.
There is no difference between a publicly recognized wedding and any committed couple.
Elena was annoyed that she was born into a noble family but did not enjoy any privileges. She was regarded as a child prodigy at an early age. Based on the advice of family friends, she began to receive a classical education.
She studied Latin and Greek under the guidance of teachers and became proficient in these languages by the age of 7. She also mastered Hebrew, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Her later studies included mathematics, philosophy and theology, and she mastered the harpsichord, clavichord, harp and violin.
In her late teens and early twenties, she developed an interest in physics, astronomy and linguistics. In 1668, then head of the philosophy department at the University of Padua, she published a book written in Latin and based on geometry.
The central book is dedicated to a twenty-two-year-old Elena.
Before Elena, no woman had ever studied in college.
Fortunately, by this time her father Battista had become the treasurer of St. Mark's Basilica in the Republic of Venice, second only to the Doge, a coveted position among the Venetian nobility.
The pope at that time was Pope Alexander VII who allocated funds to Poland to form hussars to fight against the Ottoman Empire, and the governor of Venice was Domenico II Contarini. If Venice really misappropriated its naval military expenditures, it would be inevitable
If you want a trustworthy person to handle this money, who better than Batista?
At the same time, he wanted a little privilege. It was not a big deal for his talented daughter to study at the University of Padua. It was the poor boys at the university who were defeated by Elena.
Although she is an illegitimate daughter, boys still dare not bully her because she has a powerful father. Arabic is considered difficult to learn, but Elena knows it. She can also speak Greek and Hebrew.
, Latin, how many people can curse in this ancient language like her?
She could go to many places, but she could not go to the spiral theater of the medical school to watch anatomy. For this she protested to many people, including her father.
Battista indulged his daughter, but did not agree to use his power to let her go to that place. After all, she was a girl. Although she dedicated herself to working with the Benedictines, she did not become a nun. She still had to get married.
Although she is an illegitimate daughter, she is very eye-catching in "Wedding of the Sea".
Illegitimate children were also their own children. If they and their mistresses were more favored by the nobles than children born to the main wife, then they could even get more preference than legitimate children.
In addition to weddings held in churches on land, every year the Doge of Venice sails out to sea and throws a gold ring into the sea. Among the people accompanying him are those who participate in the "Wedding of the Sea" and receive blessings from the Adriatic Sea and Poseidon.
For illegitimate daughters, this kind of wedding was also regarded as legal and valid by the Venetian nobles.
Elena has many suitors, but she looks down on those men.
Her eyes were fixed on the male teachers who were more knowledgeable than she was.
When she was 11 years old, she foolishly swore that she would stay a virgin for the rest of her life, but when she was in her twenties, she no longer necessarily thought so.
At that time, the love between male teachers and female students was even more immoral than in the 21st century. Batista arranged many marriages for her, but she rejected them.
His father was able to use his privileges to send her to college, but he could not arrange for her to teach in the school. She became the first female graduate, but she studied mathematics, philosophy, theology, and physics in school.
Astronomy was all useless, and the only thing she could pursue was music, and she became a professional musician.
Music requires perceptual thinking, and mathematics requires rational thinking, but none of these can comfort a woman's lonely heart.
Every night in the dead of night, the "carnival" in Venice begins. Masked guests in cloaks, rowing boats or walking, accompanied by the sopranos of the Venice Opera House, come to the tryst window sill to wait for their lovers to appear.
They would make that annoying, cat-like sound, disturbing Elena's immersion in the music.
Her music is not that popular. Patini at least has "The Devil's Vibrato" as a famous song, but she doesn't have any of them.
Without recognition and attention, she was actually considering accepting her father's arrangement and finding someone to marry.
However, she made a vow when she was 11 years old.
Although she is a Muggle, she is undoubtedly smarter than some witches. An 11-year-old British child will take the Hogwarts Express and go to a magic school in the mountains of Scotland, but she swears to become the bride of God, even though she
Not a nun.
In her same era, there was a man who won the bid to build the Church of Our Lady of Ankang at the age of 33. He gave her the most golden years of his life.
Leonardo da Vinci discovered the golden ratio through his research in architecture and biology.
And he discovered the charm of whirlpools. On the sea, if a ship is caught in a whirlpool, it is almost destined to sink. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio's ship was delayed in returning, and people thought they had encountered a shipwreck.
, at this time Charlotte did not help Antonio, but asked for a pound of his flesh.
Not a pound more, not a pound less, and not a drop of Christian blood.
It was a court and a theater. After all, The Merchant of Venice is a comedy. Charlotte's plot finally failed, the lovers finally got married, and the audience laughed as happily as they did watching A Midsummer Night's Dream.
However, outside the theater in Fog City, a demon appeared in Whitechapel.
He specializes in "hunting" women who are forced to sell their bodies to make a living. He not only kills them like dissecting corpses, but also disembowells them and takes away some of their organs.
When the corpses of criminals and patients appeared on the autopsy table, men had no sympathy for them.
However, if it was a girl, no matter what she did in life, no one in the Spiral Theater would crane their necks to watch the professor dissect.
The sculpture of a female guerrilla on the seaside rises and falls in the tide, like Venus in the sea, disappearing and appearing.
It is a tragedy when beautiful things are destroyed. Who would laugh when watching a tragedy?
People hope that detectives like Sherlock Holmes are real and can catch Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately, he is just a character in a novel and Jack the Ripper is still at large.
Many people were suspected but were released due to lack of evidence.
As she reasoned, if Venice had indeed embezzled naval funds to support the Polish Hussars and therefore had to blow up the San Angelo ammunition depot to hide the evidence, she needed evidence.
Now, she has found a key figure, Giambattista, the treasurer of St. Mark's Church. He is the bridge connecting Venice and the Holy See. He is not a priest or a saint, if not for the fact that he has a
The pushy daughter, he may not be known to others because he is the second most powerful person besides the governor.
Some people are uneasy about the person whose power is second only to themselves, thinking that he is ambitious.
But Battista is a sober man. He has left the family and is no longer a threat to the Contarini family.
For a woman, a peasant's daughter, a prominent nobleman gave up everything.
But this may be an artist's imagination. They are just like that. They don't ask for a deep explanation. As long as they find the story touching, they will sing it everywhere.
Although white lies are lies, they can bring people hope and keep them away from the gate of hell.
Although the sincere truth is cruel, it can make people see through the temptation of the devil and stop with a clear mind before stepping into hell.
Those musicians trapped in the violin are just trying to figure out what the audience wants to hear.
They don't want to live in poverty and perform on the street. They want to be on the stage where everyone is watching and enjoy the applause of the public.
"Bravo!"
She woke up and found that there were many spectators standing outside the music pavilion, and they were applauding.
The Potions Master who couldn't play the violin had just serenaded him with such virtuosity that he looked like he was possessed by a ghost.
"This is a good piano." Severus said proudly, putting down the bow.
"Including you, there are seven in total." She said coldly, "The undead in this place will help the living, but that may not be the case in another place."
"I know." He looked at the abbreviation of JHL and said, "That's why I will experiment here. If this place is full of malicious undead, there will be no good place in the world."
Pomona looked at the Muggles, they were all happy.
There was a middle-aged man wearing a monk's robe hiding in the crowd, sticking out his tongue and making a face at her.
His tongue was really long, almost touching his chin, and it looked a bit scary. She immediately ran to Severus and held his arm.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
Muggles are afraid of witches, and witches are afraid of burning their own priests.
Ah, it's really terrible, even though he is a doctor.
Chapter completed!