Dodici araldi grinzosi

Twelve agile chapters, twelve narrative pieces crafted by the pen of a cultured and passionate Spanish writer, form a compelling, intimate, and lively dialogue between History and Spirit, set in the shadow of the magnificent Certosa di San Martino in Naples. With keen intellectual curiosity, Quirante explores the wrinkled features of the prophets painted by Jusepe de Ribera, retracing the impressions of travelers and scholars, rediscovering the struggle to live in (albeit transfigured) seventeenth-century realism, but above all seeking to discern—in some of the figures of these "mediators" suspended between earth and heaven, between God and man—a key to understanding the new Jerusalem of the Apocalypse.