Arcimboldo The alchemical painting of immortality - Michele Proclamato

Article by Michele Proclamato at the presentation of the book "Arcimboldo"

Sincerely?

Well, I should have dealt with Roger Bacon. Yes, my latest bibliographical "effort" would have had Bacon as the protagonist.

I would have liked to write about that friar made famous by Sean Connery in "The Name of the Rose." I already knew a few things about him, so...

But no. That's the beauty of my job, after all, I do what I feel, almost always.

In fact, while I was searching on the internet for some bibliographical references concerning one of the greatest alchemists of the Christian world, capable of "inventing" glasses centuries before Descartes, what appears, just like that, as if he wanted to present himself to me and my attention with all his load of symbolic meanings?

An image, or rather a painting, that immediately changed my mind. A painting by yet another local genius, one that Italian history has often culpably overlooked.

Unfortunately, "We" have a very long bench, as they say in football jargon, and we quickly forget about the champions, especially the local ones. In short, looking for Bacone I encountered the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and, boy, it left an indelible mark on me, so much so that my new publishing house will publish a book of mine on this genius.

Biography of Michele Proclamato

Michele Proclamato began his studies through the mysterious rediscovery of some monuments in his city: L'Aquila. After identifying the KNOWLEDGE of the OCTAVE as the heart of esoteric knowledge, now present throughout the world, he wrote the following works for the "Melchizedek" editions: "The Secret of the Three Octaves", "The OCTAVE the Knowledge of the GODS", "The Sonic Genius" and "The Millenary Secret of Crop Circles". He currently collaborates with several magazines of the ACACIA group including Hera, for which he writes a monthly column dedicated to Crop Circles. His articles have appeared in the quarterly "ScienzaeConoscenza", while he regularly contributes his writing to many sector websites such as StazioneCeleste, Il portale del Mistero, AltroGiornale, MysteryChronicle, CropcircleConnector, etc. He participates in conferences and seminars throughout Italy and organizes Mystery Tours based on his books.