Black & White Magic in Torino (Part I) & Uova Ripiene Pasquali

Mysteries & and Easter Fast & Easy Recipe!

From Turin’s Simposio!

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Torino has been considered an esoteric city since the Renaissance when the Savoia house initiated a propagandistic strategy against the Papal state. Alchemists and magicians were welcomed into the city, sheltered, and encouraged to spread their beliefs.

The Swiss Paracelso, the first who baptized zinc, the first systematic botanist, and the scholar who placed the base to semiotic, the science that studies symptoms and clinical signs, resided for some time in Torino.

The unknown origins count of Saint Germain, adventurer, alchemist, philosopher, and art lover, sheltered here as well as many others when declared heretic by the Catholic Church.

Nostradamus, legend passes on, was invited to the city by Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia. He was fond of alchemy and had built an underground laboratory in Palazzo Madama where he could pursue the three main objectives of this “science”: conquer omniscience, find the panacea to all ills, and transform metals into gold. Apparently, since he had married the not-young-anymore daughter of the king of France, Margherita di Valois, he had asked that doctor to bring his famous fertility oil. When the couple finally had a son, Carlo Alberto I, Nostradamus was even asked to write the child's horoscope. He predicted that he would die when a nine would precede a seven on the path to Jerusalem. Carlo died of plague at 68, when nine stood before the seven of the 70s, in Palazzo Cravette, in a small town in the province of Cuneo, a little south of Torino. The building was situated in Via Jerusalem.

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